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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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To: Choose Ye This Day
The Constitution in full and the Bill of Rights. Great read.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:12:16 PM PST
by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: 185JHP
Read up on Trudeau before reading his book. It'll make you question his information.
But if it works for you, God Bless. I personally wouldn't touch anything that was associated with Trudeau. (Freepmail me if you care to know the details of how I was already burned once by him.)
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:13:45 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: MplsSteve
I think I'm somewhere in Kings II in the Bible.
Uhm... The Case for Christ by Lee Stroble.
Sky Hook by John Nance.
Several magazines re: computers, writing, and script writing.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:15:42 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: MplsSteve
Condi Vs. Hillary by Dick Morris. It is a surprisingly well written history book, among other things.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:16:37 PM PST
by
ntnychik
To: Killborn
Oh, yeah. I have roughly the same thing. I got it from Cato a few years ago.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:17:06 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
('Tis the part of the wise man to...not venture all his eggs in one basket. -- Cervantes)
To: Choose Ye This Day
Got mine from MA College Republicans Convention.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:18:28 PM PST
by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: Killborn
You mean College Republicans aren't outlawed in Massachussetts?
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:20:05 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
('Tis the part of the wise man to...not venture all his eggs in one basket. -- Cervantes)
To: MplsSteve
Living Language, German Beyond The Basics Coursebook.
Pretty hot stuff for me :-)
But I think I bore my poor wife to death.
To: birbear
My husband just bought me that book as a present and my jaw dropped open.
He got me with "Mega Memory" fifteen years ago, so I don't have much respect for him.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:24:54 PM PST
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: BibChr
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (bedtime reading with the missus) You hopeless romantic!! I bet that gets the missus all fired up :>)
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:27:13 PM PST
by
lawnguy
(It works Napoleon, you don't even know.)
To: Choose Ye This Day
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:28:48 PM PST
by
Killborn
(Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
To: diamond6
"Mega Memory" wasn't too bad. I actually learned something from that. But after further reasearch, I learned it was nothing new that he developed. He basically repackaged some age old ideas from others.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:37:25 PM PST
by
birbear
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To: strategofr
Stonewall Jackson, by C.F.R. Henderson, 714 pages and I've done 567. Great book! Did you pick that up at Barnes & Noble, perhaps? I'm about 100 pages into that same book.
It doesn't have a copyright in the front of the book, but it appears to have been written around 1897 and provides a whole different perspective on the 'Civil War' (War of Southern Independence) than the modern, politically correct versions.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:45:01 PM PST
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been cowboys.)
To: MplsSteve
The Sound and The Fury...Faulkner. I'm finishing the book just to prove to myself that it can be done, otherwise I hate it, and I think Faulkner was a no-talent hack. I'm a Hemingway fan.
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:04:33 PM PST
by
SoDak
To: MplsSteve
Anne Rules book about the Green River killer
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posted on
11/01/2005 10:09:28 PM PST
by
Jrabbit
(Kaufman County, Texas)
To: MplsSteve
What Are You Reading Right Now?This.
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posted on
11/02/2005 3:30:17 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Gloria Borger is Andrea Mitchell on Peyote)
To: MplsSteve
"What Stalin Knew" by David Murphy.
To: MplsSteve
Just finished
Jarhead, now I'm reading
In the Lake of the Woods. Saw the new Capote movie last week and it inspired me to re-read
In Cold Blood. If anyone hasn't read
In Cold Blood you really ought to. It's one of the best books that I've ever read.
The best story that I've read recently is "The Turtle Catcher" by a new author named Nicole Lea Helget. The story won the $10,000 Tamarack award given yearly by Minnesota Monthly and it really is one of the best short stories that I've ever read. Nicole Helget is definately a name that we'll be hearing in the future.
The story can be found Here.
To: lawnguy
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posted on
11/02/2005 4:25:01 AM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: MNJohnnie
Just finished John Ringo's "Into The Looking Glass." Quite possible the best living SF writer.
I'd give that palm to David Weber -- at least this month. Weber, David Drake, Eric Flint, and John Ringo are clustered pretty close together, and you can get a first-class read from any of them. Besides, they swap back and forth so much, it's hard to separate them. Kind of a SF League of Superstars.
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posted on
11/02/2005 4:31:46 AM PST
by
No Truce With Kings
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