Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Posted on 07/07/2011 12:57:12 PM PDT by MplsSteve
Hi everyone! I hope your 4th of July was a good one.
it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the Internet and I like to see what other Freepers are reading these days.
It can be anything - a classic novel, a trashy pulp romance, a technical journal, etc. Please do not deile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became very unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm just finishing "Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave" by Ernest Furgurson. It's OK. Nothing to rave about though.
Well, what are you reading now? Let's hear about it!
Just finished “Night of thunder” by Stephen Hunter. Bob the Nailer still rocks.
Great comedy. Hope you enjoy it enough to get the next in the series.
Don't forget your towel and. Us hoopy froods never do!
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Winston Churchill’s A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Just finished Paulson’s “On The Brink” and now reading “Reckless Endangerment” both on the financial crisis.
I’m reading insurance, Social Security and other estate related paperwork from my mom’s passing on June 6.
All are cooperative and helpful except for Bankers Life and Casulty which has identified itself as a crooked outfit that preys on the elderly. Damn them !
I am listening (again) to Atlas Shrugged. I was able to download a copy from my library and burn it to my iPod. Sixty two hours of listening bliss! Timely message aside, i am really enjoying to telling of the story this time, along with the content. This reading is by Scott Brick on Blackstone Audio. Very well done!
I'm only a little more than 100 pages into this 1000 page book. As much as this book is about Harry Truman, it is also a sad reminder about the way our country used to be.
ML/NJ
What a great thread, thanks so much for posting it and if you have a ping list for it, please add me!
Earlier this spring I finished Ron Chernow’s biography of George Washington: Washington, A Life. All 68 chapters. Well written, interesting, marvelous vocabulary (I read it on Kindle and used that built in dictionary frequently).
So now, I’m finishing up odds and ends that were left hanging while I finished the biography.
C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” is my current “will be finished before I start something else”.
Defensive Tactics: Modern Arrest & Control Techniques for Today’s Police Warrior
Loren W. Christensen (Author)
The book was made into a documentary--Restrepo--which I have not seen. Strangely for a Vanity Fair author, the book was pretty much devoid of radical leftist propagandizing and dissembling.
I am half way through Donald Rumsfeld’s book “Known and Unknown”.
Here is an interesting paragraph about the 1992 Bush vs Clinton campaign from pages 414-415:
“By 1992, a U.S. presidential election year, Bill Clinton, the politically astute young governor of Arkansas, accused President George H.W. Bush and his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, of being soft on Iraq. I was interested in this debate, as I had played a role in the drama when I met with Saddam Hussein as President Ronald Reagan’s Middle East envoy. Clinton may have been looking to burnish his national security credentials by trying to appear tougher in foreign policy than the Bush administration. Clinton’s running mate, Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Jr, went even further than Clinton, accusing President George H.W. Bush of deliberately concealing the extent of Saddam’s ties to terrorism, his attacks on U.S. interests, and his efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Clinton and Gore pledged that their administration would be under no illusions when it came to dealing with Saddam. Supporters of the 1992 Democratic presidential ticket exploited the poor economic news of the day by distributing a bumper sticker that read: SADDAM HUSSEIN STILL HAS HIS JOB. DO YOU?”
Julian Young’s biography of Nietzsche;
Roger Scruton’s little book Beauty;
Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Critique of a Tradition by Jacques Barzun.
Now that I look at that list, I realize I need to lighten up and get some fiction going....
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan. Re-reading the Wheel of Time getting ready for the last book.
Awesome book!
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
I love the Fourth Turning.....
This link has Animal Farm, the search feature should give you 1984. I downloaded the zip files to my portable harddrive because they are large and then unzipped them.
Down here in Roanoke attending to my daughter
and first grandchild. Books I’m reading this week are:
Hell’s Corner - Baldacci - a Camel Club story-
disappointing - way too many pages and too strange
and unexplained plot twists
Lace Makers of Glenmara - Barbieri - 3 steps up from a
romance novel, but well told and entertaining
Rhett Butler’s People - McCaig - SO much better than
anticipated. Lots of CW facts I never knew, and GWTW
as told through Rhett’s life by another author -
well, it fits perfectly and I will send a fan letter
once I finish.
Mounting Fears - Woods - Not yet started. May be
slightly flat.
A pretty typical for me mix of fiction and non. I’m a simul-reader, always several books going for different moods:
“Spilsburys Coast” - bio of BC Canada entrepreneur and raconteur Jim Spilsbury
The last book of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series (#7 and 20 years after the original book was written)
“Foundation and Empire” - Isaac Asimov (finally getting around to this series)
“The Great Plains During World War II” - prett self-explanatory but quite well done.
Thomas Perry “Nightlife” - pure escapism
I’m reading the good book again. I wish I wasn’t such a plodder when it comes to reading because I have five books I just got from the Christian bookstore waiting in the wings. They all look good but I’m particularly interested in “The Battle for the Last Days’ Temple”. I bet I don’t buy another book until ‘12. :)
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