Book(s) You are Reading

Vanity Thread | 1/28/2019 | Me

[Republic_Venom]

Freepers, what books have you read recently and would recommend them for the rest of us? My list includes:

1. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt 2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari 3. Stand Out of Our Light by James Williams 4. The Feminist Lie: It Was Never About Equality by Bob Lewis

[GRRRRR]

Pike Logan is going after Nazi gold.

I need more Gabriel Allon!!

[agondonter]

The complete series by Vince Foster.

The complete series by Brad Thor.

I am currently reading Indian Country.

[deadrock]

I really enjoyed it as well.

[robowombat]

Mary Chesnut's Civil War,The Children of Pride.Sarah Morgan, The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman, Brokenburn, The Journal of Kate Stone 1861-1868

[onona]

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.

Codex Alera, also by Jim Butcher.

[Pelham]

"I am reading The Gospel According to Tolkien. I am loving it."

Then you might like this:

Myth, Allegory, and Gospel: An Interpretation of JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, Charles Williams

[Gil4]

Most of my reading is the Bible or theological works. My recreational “reading” is almost all audio books. My favorite authors:

Daniel Silva (Gabriel Alon series)

Lee Child (Jack Reacher series)

Clancy / Greaney - Carrying on the Jack Ryan (and Ryan Jr.) series has been divided up among a few authors, but the Mark Greaney ones are the best of them, plus his Grey Man series is very good (except for a bit more bad language than I prefer)

Alex Berenson (John Wells series)

Louise Penney (Armand Gamache series)

Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch series)

Older, but still worth listening:
John Le Carre (Mostly the George Smiley series)

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Wildfire by Kurt Schlichter.

Kurt is learning his craft as a novelist - much improved writing. Constant action.

[MamaB]

My friends have been posting about, “The Ballad of the Green Berets” on Facebook. I became interested in learning more so I ordered 3 books about SSgt Barry Sadler and The Green Berets. I have learned a lot about both. I really enjoyed Robin Moore’s book about them. He was allowed to join in the training the Green Berets go through. It takes a very special person to become one.

[Fiji Hill]

Some books I have started reading or will be reading shortly:

LA Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by john Buntin (New York; Harmony, 2009)
A story that juxtaposes the growth of organized crime in Los Angeles during the twentieth century with the career of William H. Parker, a policeman who crusaded against crime and eventually became the city's police chief. I am listening to the audio version.

The haunted wood : Soviet Espionage in America - the Stalin Era by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vasiliev (New York: Random House, 1999)
The story of Soviet espionage in the US that used documents from the KGB archives during the brief period that they were open to Western scholars.

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen (Newburyport, Mass.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014)
An argument for traditionalist methods of child rearing and education. This book is hard to find in libraries, but I am about to read an online version at a local academic library.

Trump Aftershock by Stephen Strang (Lake Mary, Fla.: Front Line, 2018)
I just got this book last week.

[untenured]

I’m writing a book of my own for work purposes, and most of my reading is associated with that. But one book I did recently read that some people outside my arcane specialty might like is The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. The author, a Stanford historian, meticulously documents using both modern economic data and evidence from human fossils going back thousands of years that inequality has always been with us, perhaps because of something basic in human nature once humans are in society. Occasionally major crises, for example epidemics or massive war, lower inequality, but it always goes back up. Very thought provoking (to me) in terms of whether reducing inequality is a good thing, yet full of evidence that as inequality gets out of hand, bad things happen.

[Fiji Hill]

Anne might want to add her own name into the title.

ROTFL!

[Gil4]

Reading is so... last century. Audible Audiobooks...

I agree, but the basic 1 per month plan is all I can afford from Audible. I go through 1-2 per week. My local library has two audiobook services with free checkouts. The selection is good, not great, and you have to wait a while for best-sellers to become available. The selection for classics is very good. (Overdrive and RB Digital)

[dfwgator]

“Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite” - Roger Daltrey

[rdl6989]

I have that book in paperback.

[rdl6989]

William Tecumseh Sherman, In the Service of My Country.

[bertmerc1]

The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh.

[cld51860]

Re-reading the Horatio Hornblower series by the great C.S. Forester.

[Katya]

Taleb’s The Black Swan ( and imo any of the other books in his Incerto Series)
In the same vein: Mandelbrot’s Misbehavior of Markets
Kahneman” Thnking fast and slow.
Khannas Connectography
Aiken’s The cyber effect

[onedoug]

Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace

Exodus: God, Slavery and Freedom, Dennis Prager
Interesting reading of those weekly parshas during Shabbos.