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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey of Freeper Reading Habits
9/29/08 | MplsSteve

Posted on 09/29/2008 7:19:37 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 "Blockaders, Refugees & Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast 1861-1865."

It's a very interesting book about how the US Navy was able to turn a substantial portion of Florida's Gulf Coast population against the Confederacy, creating a civil war within that part of Florida.

So tell me...what are YOU reading now?


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181 posted on 09/29/2008 4:58:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv; MplsSteve

Hmmm. Well, let’s see...I have The Celts and Aztecs by my bed.

When one gets boring, I look at the photos, then pick up the other book to read for a while before I get too sleepy.

It will soon be time to start on LOTR, once more. (I’ve read it at least once a year since 1970.)

:o]


182 posted on 09/29/2008 5:03:35 PM PDT by Monkey Face (If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?)
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To: MplsSteve

Gulag Archipelago whenever I can’t stand to look at my nursing school books.

Yoga Journal... I used to read almost two-three books a week before I started nursing school. Can’t wait to be done.


183 posted on 09/29/2008 5:09:49 PM PDT by cyborg (Sarah Palin and my Mom can kick a$$ and take names together.)
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To: edcoil
I've actually read “Pillars of the Earth” twice.

Be sure to read the sequel “World without end” which I believe is still in hardcover. It involves the years in Kingsbridge (200 years or so after Pillars) when the Plague was wiping folks out all over Europe.

184 posted on 09/29/2008 5:11:24 PM PDT by Radix (If Alaska were to secede from the Union it would probably become a power player in OPEC)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished “the road”...very good

reading now,
a short history of nearly everything
the chief...a bio of wm rand. hearst
the time travellers wife....novel.


185 posted on 09/29/2008 5:12:14 PM PDT by spyone (1)
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To: MplsSteve

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer


186 posted on 09/29/2008 5:12:34 PM PDT by agrace
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To: hunter112
"It attempts to answer how certain areas of the world prospered, while other areas remained stagnant until the prosperous parts of the world conquered them.

Diamond also wrote a book "Collapse" which was equally fascinating.

I could not help thinking about "Atlas Shrugged" while I was reading it.

187 posted on 09/29/2008 5:14:38 PM PDT by Radix (If Alaska were to secede from the Union it would probably become a power player in OPEC)
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To: MplsSteve
I just finished reading two books on the 1918 flu pandemic: The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M. Barry, and Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata. Now I'm reading something lighter: Blue Smoke and Murder by ???
188 posted on 09/29/2008 5:14:56 PM PDT by stayathomemom ( nowanemptynester)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Last Island Hurricane.

Sounds interesting and right up my alley. I'll have to check it out.

189 posted on 09/29/2008 5:18:01 PM PDT by stayathomemom ( nowanemptynester)
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To: MplsSteve
Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Podvig.
190 posted on 09/29/2008 5:21:26 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: SunkenCiv

Currently reading the series by Tom Kratman that starts with “A Desert Called Peace”.

Just finished “The Last Centurion” by John Ringo.


191 posted on 09/29/2008 5:22:45 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: MplsSteve

Tony Hillerman...... The Skeleton man

I’ve been re reading the WEB Griffin Philadelphis PD series.


192 posted on 09/29/2008 5:25:39 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: MplsSteve

Carl Sandburg’s biography of Lincoln. One of the best things I’ve ever read in my whole life.


193 posted on 09/29/2008 5:28:18 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Big Government is the opiate of the masses.)
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To: MplsSteve

The Tay Son Uprising: Society And Rebellion in Eighteenth-century Vietnam


194 posted on 09/29/2008 5:28:33 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: MplsSteve

“Samuel Pepys Diary,” for about the 5th time (Richard Le Galliene edition). It’s a remarkable document that lays human foibles bare. And it’s a first-person confession of how “public servants” can grow very rich while on the public payroll, something that has a direct connection with the current U.S. budget meltdown.


195 posted on 09/29/2008 5:28:38 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: MplsSteve

The discovery documents of the COPs I’m suing!


196 posted on 09/29/2008 5:30:28 PM PDT by George - the Other ("Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent" - G. Orwell)
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To: Salamander
I’m currently reading “Hop On Pop” by Dr. Suess.

Can you find the mouse in "Goodnight Moon?"

197 posted on 09/29/2008 5:32:52 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: cpanter

I read that one! I’ve read a couple more of his books. One was another story of simultaneous events in history, the other about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.


198 posted on 09/29/2008 5:33:11 PM PDT by stayathomemom ( nowanemptynester)
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To: MplsSteve
Here are the books I've read in the past three months (some based on recommendations in another thread - thanks!)

Six Frigates - Ian Toll
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
World Without End - Ken Follett
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Gypsy Morph - Terry Brooks

Currently reading:
Marley and Me - John Grogan

In the queue:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Silent War - John Pina Craven
The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen

Looking forward to more good book recommendations!

199 posted on 09/29/2008 5:42:22 PM PDT by Doohickey (Wingnut: A small, dense object that spins easily (See: Obama, Barack))
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To: edcoil
The sequel, World Without End, is almost as good. Almost.
200 posted on 09/29/2008 5:48:39 PM PDT by Doohickey (Wingnut: A small, dense object that spins easily (See: Obama, Barack))
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