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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry
1/08/08 | MplsSteve

Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve

It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" inquiry.

I'm always curious as to what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others.

It can be anything...a classic novel, a scientific journal, a magazine, a cheap pulp novel...anything.

Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley.

This is a full account of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast. The book starts 48 hours before landfall and finishes one week after landfall. It a very good book.

Trust me, no one comes out of this looking good. Ray Nagin doesn't. FEMA doesn't, etc.

Well, what are YOU reading now?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; literature; magazines; reading
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To: MplsSteve

“McCampbell’s Heroes” by Edwin Hoyt. It’s a history of Air Wing 15 (the “Fabled Fifteen”) during its six-month deployment aboard USS Essex in 1944, led by Navy Ace of Aces Capt. David McCampbell.


181 posted on 01/08/2008 10:24:55 AM PST by 60Gunner (This is an Emergency Room. You want the family package? Take your six kids to Disneyland.)
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To: MplsSteve
Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage and Children by Stephen Baskerville.

Empire by Orson Scott Card.

1945 by Robert Conroy.

182 posted on 01/08/2008 10:25:15 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Boat Rocker
Caveat emptor. Ellis is a proven serial liar. I must admit, however, that I enjoyed his book on George Washington, “His Excellency.”
183 posted on 01/08/2008 10:26:34 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: MplsSteve
what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others

Still reading the same pile as last summer and try to never recommend.

184 posted on 01/08/2008 10:27:12 AM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Empire, by Orson Scott Card.

Great book, just finished it a few days ago.

185 posted on 01/08/2008 10:27:22 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: MplsSteve
Listening in car to The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier.

I am a slow reader. I like true stories.

186 posted on 01/08/2008 10:28:06 AM PST by AmericaUnite
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To: MplsSteve
Stephen R Donaldson. Fatal Revenant Donaldson's command of the English language is amazing. The book is not for those who suffer from sesquipedaliaphobia.
187 posted on 01/08/2008 10:29:05 AM PST by RepRivFarm
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To: rwrcpa1

Mitch Rapp rocks!


188 posted on 01/08/2008 10:29:40 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: ConservativeDude

I don’t recommend much, but read Euclid in the original language. The Almagest is probably bogus, but it was about the only astronomical reference generally available in Europe until Copernicus.


189 posted on 01/08/2008 10:30:09 AM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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To: Savage Beast

Thanks for the tip. I’ll see if I can find it on CD today.


190 posted on 01/08/2008 10:39:20 AM PST by elc
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To: Boat Rocker
Caveat emptor. Ellis is a proven serial liar. I must admit, however, that I enjoyed his book on George Washington, “His Excellency.”
191 posted on 01/08/2008 10:41:28 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: RightWhale

I don’t recommend much, but read Euclid in the original language. The Almagest is probably bogus, but it was about the only astronomical reference generally available in Europe until Copernicus.”

I agree. Reading Euclid in Greek would be bad-ass for sure. That is definitely a goal. If I were an educator, I would also push in that direction. However, from my vantage point here and now, I have to make due with the Heath translation.


192 posted on 01/08/2008 10:43:12 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: MplsSteve

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies

by M. Stanton Evans (Author)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition (Hardcover)
by Edward R. Tufte

The Amazing Maurice and his educated Rodents - Terry Prattchett, Disk World book

The Bible

Mark’s Story - Tim LaHaye


193 posted on 01/08/2008 10:49:55 AM PST by Forgiven_Sinner (For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not die)
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To: Marie2

Oh,you will love Executioner’s Song and,of course,In Cold Blood by Capote is bone chilling.
I like true crime books too and read often for escape and fun but also love to take on something challenging.Someone suggested Confessions by St Augustine.I think I will look that one up on my next expedition to the library.
Oh,I forgot to mention The Onion Field by Wambaugh.


194 posted on 01/08/2008 10:53:30 AM PST by Riverman94610
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To: MplsSteve
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Just finished America Alone - Mark Steyn

195 posted on 01/08/2008 10:53:35 AM PST by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Go for it,Neo.And get back to me after the journey!


196 posted on 01/08/2008 10:56:22 AM PST by Riverman94610
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To: MplsSteve
Recently read:

1. Indian Summer, a history of Indian independence. Interesting but a little gossipy.

2. Embracing Defeat. A book about Japan immediately after the war by a liberal historian. Much that I could dispute, but I learned a lot.

3. The Siege of Mecca. A fascinating account of the seizure of the Grand Mosque in 1979 by the original Sunni Islamist extremists, and a terrific guide to where what we face now came from. I highly recommend it.

4. The Wages of Wins. A book about what determines success in team sports, using econometric techniques. A frill, basically.

5. The Victory of Reason, about Christianity and capitalism. I am reading it for a book I am writing myself.

I have just reread:

1. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom's 1987 lamentation about our elite universities. About 70% of it still rings true, I think.

2. From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun's magisterial history of 500 years of Western culture, the last 100 or so years of it outright decline.

197 posted on 01/08/2008 11:00:06 AM PST by untenured
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To: rlmorel

Your points are well taken and one must admit that the liberal viewpoint today is ubiquitous and to pick a conservative book is almost an act of rebellion against modernist culture.
Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind was one of the best books I have ever read on academia and modern society.What struck me is that his critiques of the modern university-training grounds for managers for corporate America rather than places that encorage truth seekers-mirrored lots of Leftist criticisms.


198 posted on 01/08/2008 11:02:43 AM PST by Riverman94610
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To: Harry Pothead

I have read many of this series. I really got a kick out of it in the 90’s, when he added President Blanton. One character seemed to be a parady of Maxine Waters.


199 posted on 01/08/2008 11:04:17 AM PST by mathluv
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To: MamaB

Yes,strange coincidences in the dates of your deceased loved ones.
No one can replace moms.But kudos to her long life!


200 posted on 01/08/2008 11:05:21 AM PST by Riverman94610
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