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What Are You Reading Right Now?

Posted on 11/01/2005 7:42:00 PM PST by MplsSteve

I'm interested in hearing what fellow Freepers are reading these days.

Fiction...non-fiction...trashy novels...technical manuals...it doesn't matter.

I'll start this.

I'm reading "The Kingfish and His Realm; The Life and Times of Huey P Long" by William Ivy hair.

A great book that explores the darker side of Huey P Long that hasn't been covered in other biographies.

Well? What are YOU reading?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; fiction; nonfiction; readinglist
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1 posted on 11/01/2005 7:42:01 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Powerline, Malkin, Belmont Club, Micheal Yon, Steyn.


2 posted on 11/01/2005 7:42:40 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: MplsSteve

I just finished reading The Good Earth-- a Pulitzer prize winner from the mid-30s by Pearl Buck.


3 posted on 11/01/2005 7:42:52 PM PST by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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To: MplsSteve

excellent, excellent

4 posted on 11/01/2005 7:43:22 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)
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To: MplsSteve
State of Fear by Michael Chricton. Quite the indictment on the spoiled Hollywood crowd and their pet environ MENTAL movement.
5 posted on 11/01/2005 7:44:40 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: MplsSteve

Split between a light, Sci-fi comedy and Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle".


6 posted on 11/01/2005 7:44:42 PM PST by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect.)
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To: MplsSteve

"The Problem of Pain"... C.S. Lewis


7 posted on 11/01/2005 7:45:46 PM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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To: MplsSteve
Right now??? This damn web site...over and over again. (sarcasm)
8 posted on 11/01/2005 7:46:01 PM PST by glaseatr (God Bless, My Nephew, SGT Adam Estep 2nd Bat, 5th Cav reg died Thursday April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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Just finished John Ringo's "Into The Looking Glass."

Kept me up until I finished it.


9 posted on 11/01/2005 7:47:40 PM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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I was going to say "this thread." :-)


10 posted on 11/01/2005 7:47:53 PM PST by mwyounce
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Don't ask me why but I recently picked up "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike. Never read any Updike before except for some short stories, "A&P" being one of them I remember well.


11 posted on 11/01/2005 7:48:00 PM PST by SamAdams76 (What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
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Stonewall Jackson, by C.F.R. Henderson, 714 pages and I've done 567. Great book!

Stonewall was among the top 5-6 generals of all time, along with Alexander the Great, Hannibal, von Manstein, & Subedai.

What does CFR mean?


12 posted on 11/01/2005 7:48:08 PM PST by strategofr (The secret of happiness is freedom. And the secret of freedom is courage.---Thucydities)
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The complete works of Edgar Allen Poe - currently on Chapter III of "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym."
13 posted on 11/01/2005 7:48:16 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: Fenris6
15th reread... the art of war.

12th reread... the prince

10th reread... a modest proposal

8th reread... the wealth of nations

5thish or so... communist manifesto (refer to 1st, 2nd and 3rd on the list)
14 posted on 11/01/2005 7:49:11 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: mwyounce
Great smart assed minds think alike..LOL
15 posted on 11/01/2005 7:49:21 PM PST by glaseatr (God Bless, My Nephew, SGT Adam Estep 2nd Bat, 5th Cav reg died Thursday April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: MplsSteve

The "Confluence" trilogy by Paul J. McAuley.


16 posted on 11/01/2005 7:50:52 PM PST by annie laurie (All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished: 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37)


17 posted on 11/01/2005 7:51:29 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Yup. Thats the mark of a good book. You never tire of it.

My fav is still The Last Lion v2 by Manchestor. I've reread it so many times that its falling apart on me.


18 posted on 11/01/2005 7:51:44 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: MplsSteve

One of the best books ever.

19 posted on 11/01/2005 7:52:10 PM PST by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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Aristotle's "Problemata". Very enlightening. For example, in book I problem 50, he recommends sexual excess as beneficial against diseases caused by phlegm. Now, it gives one a good turn of the phrase when dealing with somebody with a persistent cough or a running nose.
20 posted on 11/01/2005 7:52:46 PM PST by GSlob
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