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What Are You Reading Now? (My Quarterly Survey)
1/12/10

Posted on 01/12/2010 7:17:29 PM PST by MplsSteve

OK, it's time for my quarterly What Are You Reading Now? survey.

I do this because I like to gauge what Freepers are reading. I believe that the Freeper community are one of the more well-read on the Internet.

What are you reading? It can be anything...a classic novel, a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel - in short, anything.

Please do not defile this thread by replying "I'm Reading This Thread". It became unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "Pickett's Charge: A Microstudy" by George R Stewart. It was written in 1959 and is a classic read about the last day of the battle of Gettysburg. It was his only book about the Civil War but he wrote many others.

Well, what are you reading?


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

Jews God and History, also J. Vernon McGee’s
book Reveling through Revelation part II


21 posted on 01/12/2010 7:28:09 PM PST by Ramonne
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To: MplsSteve

Going Rogue and Arguing with Idiots.


22 posted on 01/12/2010 7:29:22 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: toddausauras

Vernor Vinge, “Peace War” on my Kindle.


23 posted on 01/12/2010 7:30:00 PM PST by tosh
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To: MplsSteve
The Predictioneer's Game, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; A Colossal Failure of Common Sense -- the Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, Lawrence G. McDonald; Highest Duty, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger; The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene; Number--the Language of Science, Tobias Dantzig.

I generally have a half dozen books open and lying around the house and will read them all episodically rather than read each one all the way through at one sitting. This is my current group.

24 posted on 01/12/2010 7:31:20 PM PST by behzinlea
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To: MplsSteve

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis


25 posted on 01/12/2010 7:31:25 PM PST by reegs
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To: MplsSteve

The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer And His Victims—The true story of Arthur J. Shawcross.


26 posted on 01/12/2010 7:32:06 PM PST by windcliff
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To: MplsSteve

A book about some lady from Alaska.


27 posted on 01/12/2010 7:32:10 PM PST by Professional Engineer (Will Algore give me carbon credits for using treehuggers as home heating fuel? ~~ Galt/Reardon 2012)
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To: MplsSteve

Black Ops by W.E.B. Griffin


28 posted on 01/12/2010 7:33:32 PM PST by airdalechief
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To: MplsSteve
Right now I'm reading a thread titled "What Are You Reading Now? (My Quarterly Survey) ."
29 posted on 01/12/2010 7:33:32 PM PST by matt1234
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To: MplsSteve
The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod.

"I'm sure." She smiled at him indulgently, dismissively. "Bye. Oh, and I will ask our admin to check out your rates."
"Thank you," he said. "You'll find we're very competitive." He stood up and patted his gun. "Let's go."
When he'd gone she had the nagging feeling that more than one person had left.

30 posted on 01/12/2010 7:33:35 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: MplsSteve

Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah


31 posted on 01/12/2010 7:33:58 PM PST by Pelham (ObamaCare, it comes with a toe tag)
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To: warsaw44
I just got a remaindered copy of Gilbert's The Righteous, but it has to wait until I finish The World At War.
32 posted on 01/12/2010 7:34:16 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: MplsSteve
My personally autographed copy of Going Rogue (neener neener) and Bing West's remarkable The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame In Iraq. The former is really sweet, the latter pulls no punches whatever. Both of them highly recommended.
33 posted on 01/12/2010 7:35:29 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: MplsSteve

Finally finished “How the Scots Invented the Modern World”, just finished “Going Rogue”, and now on Robert B. Parker’s “Brimstone”.


34 posted on 01/12/2010 7:36:42 PM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: MplsSteve
I have three books I'm working through: The Reagan Diaries D. Brinkley ed, the President's personal notations of his eight years in the White House.

The Line Through the Heart, J. Budziszewski, an analysis of natural law as fact and theory.

City of the Sharp-nosed Fish P. Parsons, Greek lives in Roman Egypt based on recently translated troves of ancient papyrus found in arid parts of eastern Egypt.

35 posted on 01/12/2010 7:37:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: avg_freeper

Although Paul Johnson does manage to conflate CSA Gen Joseph Johnston with CSA Gen Albert Sidney Johnston. But then he is a Brit.


36 posted on 01/12/2010 7:37:39 PM PST by Pelham (ObamaCare, it comes with a toe tag)
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To: MplsSteve

this thread.

actually I have been reading scifi and fantasy free ebooks from Baen’s Books


37 posted on 01/12/2010 7:38:36 PM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards,com)
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To: MplsSteve

The Road to Serfdom by Hayek (read it 30 years ago).


38 posted on 01/12/2010 7:38:39 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: MplsSteve

The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
What Color is Your Parachute 2010-Bolles


39 posted on 01/12/2010 7:38:46 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: MplsSteve

Re-reading William Manchester’s biography of Winston Churchill. It’s “heavy going” so I have to intersperce it with Vince Flynn, David Baldacci and Bernard Cornwell books (mostly on Kindle).


40 posted on 01/12/2010 7:38:58 PM PST by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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