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?
That sounds like a good one. Haven't read it yet. But Pipes is good.
Besides yor vanity [of vanities] post - an old German textbook which I am trying to translate. It hurts.
I also recently read Everyman's Talmud by Abraham Cohen. It's a broad general primer about the Talmud. From what I gather, Cohen's book is generally recognized as the best of its kind. I found it very helpful. It's concisely written, hits the major topics, and seems neutral in its presentation. I'm no Talmudic scholar now, but I have a much better sense of what the Talmud's all about...what it's like.
Recently reread Thomas Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice, a book that brims with truth and insight. I need to figure out some way of getting my liberal friends to read it.
Also enjoyed Coulter's Godless recently.
I am reading how to transfer stock from one work center to another....and glancing at an order for a customer...
Charge to Keep - Pres. Bush
Give Me a Break - J. Stossel
Disinformation - R. Miniter
The Basset Hound Owner's Surival Guide
Diane Morgan
1776 by David McCoulough. History that reads like a fast-paced novel.
I have read all of his books. They read like an episode of 24.
Weird about the timing of his novels and some of the content in the novels.
He released The Last Jihad, 9 months before 9/11. He released The Last Days two weeks before a US Diplomat car was attacked in Gaza, and 13 months before Arafat died.
The Ezekiel Option was released the day that Iran elected the current president president who vowed to accelerate their nuclear program.
Those who have read the books know of the significance of those fact in regard to the books he wrote.
Pretty good info on the history of the PLO and the land for peace 'performance based roadmap to a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.'
I have read a lot of Taylor Caldwell's books. They are great. Can't say I was ever disappointed with any of them. My government teacher in High School was also a part time state trooper and he told me to read Captains and Kings. Said it was pretty accurate about the way things are.
PEGASUS DESCENDING by James Lee Burke. A Dave Robicheaux novel.......
Love reading Tom Wolfe....
Or YELLOW RIVER by I.P. Daley.....
I actually bought that one and it has been sitting on my shelf for months.
Learned Optimism - How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, by Martin P. Seligman
The Kite Runner
I actually bought that one and it has been sitting on my shelf for months.
If you ever decide to open it up and read it, I suggest you have a pad and pen ready. You'll need to get one of those ven diagrams going to keep track of all the people and their interconnections and such. It's very hard to follow otherwise, and it doesn't flow. It jumps around too much. But there is some good dirt in there and very interesting information and i'm determined to finish it. But i can only comprehend one or two sections at a time. Probably because i didn't know about the need for the ven diagram.
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