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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

We have a great Gos’d Graves and Glypsh group here. Blam Recommended the book....Voyages of the Pyramid Builders.

I’ll be reading it.

I’m currently reading On The Road..... sucks
Darby’s Rangers..... also poor.


201 posted on 01/08/2008 11:05:55 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: elc; MplsSteve

I pick up great tips here on FR. I always like Steve’s quarterly thread. And Freepers tend to be far more intelligent, erudite, and sophisticated than the average blokes out there.


202 posted on 01/08/2008 11:06:01 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Riverman94610

I did read “In Cold Blood” during my Truman Capote escapade last fall. I thought he was overrated as a writer, although he is the quintessential Southern Gothic. My take was, his debut novel “Other Voices, Other Rooms” was a literary sensation because it had a obvious and sympathetic homosexual character. I thought it was an average novel. However, “In Cold Blood” was an incredible detailed effort. What a lot of talent he put into that! I still plan to read “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”


203 posted on 01/08/2008 11:07:26 AM PST by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: ConservativeDude

>>So Euclid first, then Ptolemy?

Definitely Euclid first. Thomas Heath’s commentaries are a really good read.


204 posted on 01/08/2008 11:16:45 AM PST by vikingd00d
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To: Tanniker Smith
There are some math crossword puzzles in the books. I think they are called Figure Logic. I also like to do the math Bingo puzzles. There are usually on 2-4 per book.

I used some of the Cross Sum puzzles for extra credit years ago. It gave my students some basic math practice, and caused them to do some thinking.

205 posted on 01/08/2008 11:20:07 AM PST by mathluv
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To: MamaB

He has done several series since The Ashes. I think he died in ‘04. He was certainly a prolific writer. I have never read any of his western series.


206 posted on 01/08/2008 11:22:11 AM PST by mathluv
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To: Taipei Personality
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

I read his "Baroque Cycle" when they were in hardback. C'mon Neal, write more!

"Cryptonomicon" is still his best.

207 posted on 01/08/2008 11:56:35 AM PST by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: mathluv

I’ll try that at some point. Right now, I will on a rare occasion hand out Su Doku puzzles from a magazine that I picked up for $1.99. I rip the page out and give them two puzzles when they’re finished early. Keeps them busy, and they enjoy it. (And I have the answers handy!)


208 posted on 01/08/2008 12:02:55 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose panda hippo gnu deer)
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To: Pietro

Gotta love an author with the balls to name his characters things like “Half-Cocked Jack” and “Hiro Protagonist”.


209 posted on 01/08/2008 12:04:33 PM PST by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: ConservativeDude; vikingd00d
Hope you two don't mind a ping to a link to my favorite parody of St Augustine's Confessions-at the very least, it has an awfully cute jpeg of St Tuffy there, and the tone is pretty dead on.

I've made it through the City of God once-the second time I tried, I got 'bogged down' in all the defunct deities and superstitions of Rome, and gave out around pagan Roman marital customs or thereabouts. I think the next time, I'll just start with book 10.

210 posted on 01/08/2008 12:07:34 PM PST by Verloona Ti
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To: MplsSteve

I’m reading a true horror.

Bay Buchanan’s book, “The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton”


211 posted on 01/08/2008 12:08:24 PM PST by rickomatic
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To: Tanniker Smith

When I sub, I do the same. I also keep some Word Search that I can tear out and give to them. One of the Algebra teachers has an on-line site where she prints out Su Doku, etc.


212 posted on 01/08/2008 12:12:42 PM PST by mathluv
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To: Marie2

I forgot all about Breakfast at Tiffany’s!Thanks for the reminder.
I DID see the movie long ago.


213 posted on 01/08/2008 12:13:39 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: MplsSteve

Actually I’ve given up reading novels for a good while. I quit smoking almost 3 months ago as well. Starting to wonder if the two were related in some way (sitting in one place made me want to smoke a lot)


214 posted on 01/08/2008 12:15:10 PM PST by Centurion2000 (It's only arrogance if you can't back it up.)
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To: LexBaird

So, I am currently “between reads”. Just finished “1824: The Arkansas War” by Eric Flint. Sort of breezing through the Zelazny “Amber” novels to tide me through until I can get new stuff. With the political stuff heating up in the real world, I’ve been in a light mood for reading lately.


215 posted on 01/08/2008 12:16:18 PM PST by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: MplsSteve

A personal stand
Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck
Written by Trace Adkins


216 posted on 01/08/2008 12:30:46 PM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: Philistone

Obviously you AREN’T reading... bozo


217 posted on 01/08/2008 12:33:16 PM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: alarm rider
This is a book in the mystery series that takes place in Regency England.

I love these threads! I always find at least one promising suggestion. I looked up the author on Amazon and have ordered the first in her series. I am an historical mystery fan (especially Anne Perry's William Monk series.)
Thanks for the tip.

218 posted on 01/08/2008 12:37:53 PM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: mollynme

You are most welcome. I read mostly military history, but I love a really good mystery. Lately, I have been reading English period mysteries. I like the war years/early 30’s stuff, but discovered Captain Lacey through my searches on Amazon.

The books really have the feel of the Regency period. Captain Lacey is a really interesting character with a very complex personality.


219 posted on 01/08/2008 12:59:52 PM PST by alarm rider (Why should I not vote my conscience?)
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To: LexBaird

yeah, I love the amount of research that obviously went into a work of this scope.


220 posted on 01/08/2008 1:03:44 PM PST by Pietro
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