Posted on 12/31/2010 7:25:35 AM PST by MplsSteve
Hello everyone!
it's time for my quarterly "What Are You reading Now?" survey. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read of those of us out in cyberspace. As a result, I like to find out what you're reading.
It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY TImes bestseller, a trashy pulp novel, in short, it can be anything. Please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". It became very unfunny a long long time ago.
I'll start. I went to the library and picked up a copy of "Sam Walton, Made In America: My Story" by Sam Walton. I'm not the entreprenurial type myself and I'm only about 20% of the way thru the book - but I find it interesting how he built Wal-Mart to be such a powerhouse of a corporation. Some of the ideas he talks about can actually be put to use in almost any type of corporate environment.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us--if he is known at all--as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who exasperated James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. In Bill Kauffman's rollicking account of his turbulent life and times, Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy.
The Jack L. Chalker “Changewinds” series.
Both of Eddie Fisher’s autobiographies.
Awesome choice.
I’d be curious—nosy is more accurate—what the motivation is.
Sorry, but I’m old enough that I just don’t often run into people reading some of the great older books. “Notes” is for d—ned sure one of them.
Enjoy!
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett right now. Just starting.
Just beginning The Origin of Consciousness in the Break Down of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. It is one of my Christmas gifts from Santa. Monkey Business is on the TV in the background for the family and I have a tankard of mandarin orange & cranberry green tea.
If you mean right now right now, I’m reading my thermometer. Says it is -10 degrees.
Happy New Year!
I have gotten about 1/2 through this one- the subject matter is interesting, but I find it lacking a bit. I was trained as a historian and I find it falls a bit short- the author uses contractions, and it reads more like a magazine article.
I just finished re-reading Centennial, the book about Colorado, by James Michener.
Since he always writes his historical novels beginning with the Earth forming and then the dinosaurs, to the coming of man, down to cowboys and the dust bowl, it was a good long read.
Because the Book focused so much on the plains and prairie aspect of eastern Colorado and the need for water, it had some pretty insightful commentary about the ecology of the region that was ahead of its time.
Thanks, and Happy New Year!
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff...and it’s all small stuff.
by Richard Carlson, PHD
That list of books about Americans defecting to the Soviet...is it long? Would you mind sharing some titles?
I'm currently reading:
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way translated by Helen Bacovcin
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
Every January I read The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, so I'll be starting those soon.
Just starting Dubya’s Decision Points.
For fun: Cross Fire by James Patterson,
American Assassin by Vince Flynn
Obama’s Wars by Woodward
Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Koran War by Eric Hammel
Baptism: A Viet Nam Memoir by Larry Gwin
I recently developed an interest in two wars I knew little about, the Korean and Vietnamese wars. Have read nearly everything I could get my hands on in the way of personal memoirs.
And the Kindle rules!
I also just finished reading Conversation in the Cathedral by Vargas Llosa for the second time....a rather difficult but very worthwhile novel. I had to read it twice to really get the hang of it.
Now reading Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism.
The Forsaken” by Tzouliadis
Coming out of the Ice Victor Herman
In a similar vein I can recommend this book:
To Live and Die in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
I couldn't put it down,
The Forsaken” by Tzouliadis
Coming out of the Ice Victor Herman
In a similar vein I can recommend this book:
To Live and Die in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
I couldn't put it down,
Thanks cerberus.
The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by Alfred Pugsley and The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock.
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