Posted on 09/27/2007 8:09:20 AM PDT by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread!
It can be anything...a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!
DO NOT answer by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It stopped being funny a long time ago.
Here's what I'm reading. I'm just about finished with "Street Without Joy" by Bernard Fall. It's about France's war in Vietnam from 1946-1954. Very interesting and tragic.
So, tell me. What are you reading now?
Privileged Planet -
awesome. truly awesome.
That book is the scariest, anti nuke war book ever. I read it twice and shuddered.
The Great Divorce
Acts- NIV
How to Read a Book (dry but necessary)
Starship Troopers.
Me too.
IIRC, her son has taken over writing the series, and he’s kept it true to her formats, etc.
I just saw Lawrence Wright earlier this week on t.v. O'Reilly was interviewing him. I'm curious to know how you like his book so far.
I went back and read the tagline. Reminds me of “never wrestle with a pig in the mud. You’ll just get dirty and the pig loves it.” Had a senior chief tell me this after I was foolishly arguing with a lib.
Rochester Quadrajet Carb Service Manual :)
I went back and read the tagline. Reminds me of “never wrestle with a pig in the mud. You’ll just get dirty and the pig loves it.” Had a senior chief tell me this after I was foolishly arguing with a lib.
Born to Be Wilde by Janelle Danison - yep trashy romance!
Did you see the “Where’s Osama?” new book, based on the Where’s Waldo format? :-)
I read that over the summer. I loved the opening description of the Stiva character --
Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them--or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.You can download a copy of the book at Project Gutenberg for free and keep it on your handheld. Project Gutenberg
with 5 kids and a whole host of other stuff....my time is limited
but
Camp of the Saints....yep never had read it....how prophetic...a few pages a night in the tub
Maxim and Stuff magazines....fluff, the verbage mostly echo-boomer lib
FHM and the UK version.........less lib, more alpha male
rarely Playboy if there is an interview I want or some pictorial that looks sweet
My wife’s fashion mags...Elle, Vogue....to see what she might like...the verbage is way out there lefty
I have 100s ...maybe over a thousand non-fiction works and reference. I grab one when I need it.
The last fiction I read was Ollie North’s Iraq piece.
Last cover to cover book period was a book on Bedford Forrest written by a professor recently and taken from the letters by his escort company....very very informative....if you like that period.
I saw the movie years ago and it’s always been one of my favorites. I’ve always wanted to read the book. I was laid up at home for over a week recently and watched a lot of “Gunsmoke”, so I was bitten by the Western bug and decided to read something Western. You’re right — after seeing McMurtry’s wordsmithing in only the first few pages, I know it’s going to be a great read.
It is EXTREMELY detailed. Too much so, actually. I'm still in Osama's days in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and the farce that his efforts were there. This level of detail reveals some interesting and sometimes alarming connections between the major players.
No, but I should warn you and everyone else: do NOT buy Marcel Marceau’s autobiography on audio-book...nine hours of blank audiotape!
At least the paper version is useful as a sketch book.
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