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?
BUMP
It has been so far. I wish I could say the same about Sachar's History.
Blind Man’s Bluff is a very good read. Read it several years ago.
A Body to Die for....by ?
I just dumped all my Grisham books—I can’t stand the hugh liberal he’s become lately in public!! >:-(
I just finished Amity Shlaes’ “The Forgotten Man” (about how FDR badly mismanaged the Depression, ruled like a bully and radically reshaped American society for the worse to boot) and “More Sex is Safer Sex” by Steven Landsburg (typically provocative in a libertarian way). I am going through Bernard Lewis’ “The Muslim Discovery of Europe” (terrific, like everything he writes), and “In the Wake of the Plague” by Norman Cantor, about the Black Death in Britain (not so good, because the author wanders around so much).
Non-fiction- The Worst Hard Times
Fiction- Harry Potter (Book II).
The More Deceived
by David Roberts
I’m about done with the Novak book and will post a thread on it next week.
I'm funny like that - if an author or singer wants to come out as a liberal and really push it in my face, piss on ya, no more money from me. But I will still use what I have.
As you may guess, I have quite the long list.
For fun: the Harry Potter books - never read them when they came out - so I figured I’d start at the beginning and read them all.
For work: If Disney Ran Your Hospital
She posts on some of the Star Trek newsgroups on USENET. I like her stuff too, but haven’t read any new stuff in awhile.
The Creature from Jekyll Island
and
America The Last Best Hope
“The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: ‘No, don’t raise my taxes, no new taxes,’” Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. “It’s pretty hard to write a book saying, ‘No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes’ on every page.”
“Set All Afire” - Louis de Wohl
Good on you! :-)
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