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What Are You Reading Now?
8/30/06
| MplsSteve
Posted on 08/30/2006 5:08:01 PM PDT by MplsSteve
OK everyone, it's time for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
I'm posting this a few days early because of the Labor Day weekend. I like to get as many responses as possible.
Well...? What are you reading now?
It can be a technical journal. It can be a trashy pulp novel. It can be a a best-seller or a travel guide.
I'll start. Right now, I'm finishing "One Soldier's Story: A Memoir" by Bob Dole.
What a great book. I encourage everyone to read it - even if you felt Bob Dole was a sell-out to conservative causes. I believe he would have made a great President!
Next week, I'm starting "Breaking Point: The 1995 Quebec Referendum" by Mario Cardinal. This one looks to be fantastic.
OK fire away! What are you reading now?
TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: bookreview; books; literature; magazines; readinglist; summer
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:08:02 PM PDT
by
MplsSteve
To: MplsSteve
Lucifer's Hammer -Want to see how the world will end !
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:09:10 PM PDT
by
Renegade
To: MplsSteve
What are you reading now?
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Your vanity thread ;)
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:09:23 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: MplsSteve
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:09:42 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(We survived Clinton in the 80s... we can survive her even when her husband is gone.)
To: MplsSteve
I'm reading a thread on Free Republic titled "What are you reading now?".
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:09:52 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
To: MplsSteve
The Invisible Man ~ H. G. Wells
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:10:16 PM PDT
by
csvset
("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
To: MplsSteve
Actually, I am reading a spy novel. Not too good, but a great time waster.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:10:42 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(We survived Clinton in the 80s... we can survive her even when her husband is gone.)
To: MplsSteve
I am finishing up The Testimony of Two Men by Taylor Caldwell.It is the story of a doctor accused of crimes he did not committ set in the early 1900's. It is a good story and I remembered enjoying it. I had read this years and years ago--probably over 25 years ago and was stunned at the political predictions that she made that are now coming true.
One example where the main character says "We are a republic, but I fear we will slide into a democracy. A democracy slides into despotism."
To: MplsSteve
My accounting textbook.
Oh, wait, recreational reading. War As I Knew It, by George Patton.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:11:10 PM PDT
by
Terpfen
To: Yossarian
Now i am reading your post.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:11:13 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(We survived Clinton in the 80s... we can survive her even when her husband is gone.)
To: MplsSteve
Read up on the Armitage/Powell/Grossman/Comey/Wilkerson CABAL Coup-plotting!!! THAT will take you thru the CHRISTMAS season!!
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:11:35 PM PDT
by
Suzy Quzy
("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
To: MplsSteve
Just bought State of Emergency by PJB.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:11:38 PM PDT
by
MadelineZapeezda
(Madeline Albright ZaPeezda, no doubt about it!)
To: Grizzled Bear; MplsSteve
Seriously; I am on the last book of David Gemmel's "Stones of Power" series.
I was halfway through "Shake Hands with the Devil," but I am taking a break from it. Before picking it back up I might reread "The Art of War."
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:11:55 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: MplsSteve
On a business trip so I am doing a lot of pleasure reading. On this trip I have finished:
Double Tap - Steve Martini
The Second Chair - John Lescroart
For tonight and the plane ride tomorrow I am reading:
The 13th Juror - John Lescroart
You can see what type of reading I enjoy........
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:12:06 PM PDT
by
day10
(Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
To: MplsSteve
Just finished Old Yeller. I read it to check it out for my tutees. It's just as sad decades later as it was when I was in 5th grade. Then we got the video, which is just as sad as it was before. Before that I read Where the Red Fern Grows, another sad dog book. It's good too.
It was a summer of Junior Fiction, which, imho, is THE BEST fiction around.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:12:12 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: MplsSteve
Going back through Paul Johnson's 'Modern Times,' the latest updated edition or whatever.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:12:12 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
To: irishtenor
I just finished "I Am Charlotte Simmons" and am going to start "A Man In Full" this weekend.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:12:24 PM PDT
by
babaloo
To: MplsSteve
I have been reading "All His Jazz," a biography of Bob Fosse. I saw it at the library and since I have always liked the movie "Cabaret," I decided to read up on Bob.
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:12:48 PM PDT
by
Cecily
(`)
To: MplsSteve
I've been enjoying Robert Crais novels. I found him while waiting for the next Lee Child. :)
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:13:01 PM PDT
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: MplsSteve
American Soldier - Tommy Franks
Thunder Run - David Zucchino
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:13:07 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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