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?
GRIT magazine...celebrating rural America since 1882.
Lol. Sounds like my wife, too. Our local library now let’s you check out books via Kindle. Pretty neat.
I got the 6 DVD HBO series as well for Christmas
Did Clancy actually write this book ?
Surface Detail and The Algebraist by Iain M Banks.
Just finished “VALIS” by Philip K Dick... now working on “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”.
I liked it. Good story. Good human relationship story. Little action.
The movie has been on TNT a lot lately because Blake Edwards, the director, was featured on TNT because he passed on. Also Mickey Rooney is the featured actor this month and he played the Japanese neighbor.
Wild Blue Yonder by Stephen Ambrose.
Decision Points.
When I opened it and began to read it on my flight back to snowy Newark/Liberty Airport my seatmate launched into a spirited attack on Obamanation!!!!
Two books:
The History of Terrorism: from antiquity to Al Qaeda edited by Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David K. Yelton
/I never read light during the school year
I just completed a study of the strategy of the War Between the States called “The Grand Design,” by Donald Stoker. It was a quick read on my Kindle, and a really excellent, quick read. Learned some stuff.
Just finished Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy.
When your hardcopy library reaches 5000, like mine did a few years ago, you’ll reverse course. Trust me.
My Kindle has become my new best friend.
In this thin book, which got limited circulation, Pat Buchanan analyzes President Nixon's successes and failures in his first term, takes note of the problems he will be facing, and speculates as to his legacy. This was published in February, 1973, before the Watergate scandal metastasized--in fact, I haven't seen so much as a mention of Watergate.
“Rainbow Six” is the last book Clancy actually wrote. “Dead or Alive” was ghostwritten by another person using his name as a marketing tool. Big, easy bucks in that sort of fraud!
The book gives you a good idea as to how the fundamental principles of American government and society were being trashed even back then for the benefit of the political class.
The Spice Necklace by Ann Vanderhoof.
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