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?
I've got several books going right now:
"Guests of the Ayatollah" by Mark Bowden
"Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich" by Ladislas Farago.
"Red Rabbit" by Tom Clancy
"Emotional Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman
"No One Left to Lie to" by Christoper Hitchens
Still reading 'In Search of Lost Time', Proust. Same as last year. Probably same next year. Also 'Being and Time', Heidegger, but that is going much quicker, might finish up about Christmas.
I liked Thunder Run. A decent book.
Reading my "The Boston Terrier" to learn what I can about my new "Betty."
Then perhaps: "Under the Bleachers" by Seymour Butts. :)
Bad Company by Jack Higgins.
Would you recommend it? I've always been intrigued by Fosse and would like to know more about him.
Do It Yourself Gun Repair.
I've got a project rifle which I plan on customizing or destroying as the case may be. A more appropriate title would be Gun Repair For Dummies.
Just finished "Boyd" the biography of David Boyd.
Incredible man, Dick Cheney has stated that he wished
David was alive today to help deal with the Islamic
situation.
Creator of the OODA Loop, developer of the F-16 and the
A-10.
Godel's Proof by Nagel and Newman. My brain hurts.
The Nightmare Years by William Shirer. I'm doing my best not to read "Ahmadinejad" for "Hitler" and it isn't working.
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case that Should have Changed History (Joan Mellen)
AND
Direction for Our Times, as given to Anne, a lay Apostle.
Are you trying to steal Oprah's thunder? ;0)
Let's see. I just finished all of Stephen King's Dark Tower books read in one huge self-indulgent gulp. Got mad at the story line about book five, but sort of liked how it turned out.
Now I am reading a bunch of books I bought today:
Passion for Islam by Murphy
The Taliban Phenonmenon: Afghanistan 1994-1997
Dirty Bomb by Gilbert King
After by Stephen Brill
JihAD VS. McWorld by Barber
The New Face of War by Berkowitz
and the one I really want to read:
Londonistan
Not sure which, if any, of these I will recommend yet.
I noticed your focus on books about Islam.
Have you read Daniel Pipes' "Militant Islam reaches America"?
It's a good read...not to mention alarming too.
My prescription bottle.
Yes, it is a fast and interesting read. As you probably know, Fosse lived on the dark and sleazy side of life, but he sure could direct a Broadway show or a movie.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by The Smartest Man In America.
The Green River Killer by Ann Rule.
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