Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" inquiry.
I'm always curious as to what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others.
It can be anything...a classic novel, a scientific journal, a magazine, a cheap pulp novel...anything.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley.
This is a full account of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast. The book starts 48 hours before landfall and finishes one week after landfall. It a very good book.
Trust me, no one comes out of this looking good. Ray Nagin doesn't. FEMA doesn't, etc.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
I just got finished reading what there is so far of Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. And I can’t stop reading whatever books I can get based around Warhammer or Warhammer 40k. Yeah, my reading tends to be on the very light side. Life is serious enough for me most of the time that I don’t need to read about it too.
And it’s been a VERY long time indeed since I took instructions from anonymous posters on a web forum! ;-)
Ptolemy’s Almagest
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
The unedited version of Stranger in a Strange Land
I’m going to Barnes & Noble this week with my gift cards and I’m picking up Jonah Goldberg’s new book “Liberal Fascism”
Confessions - St. Augustine
Fellowship of the Ring (outloud to youngsters), Pride and Prejudice, Brothers K., various treatises related to hobbies and would-be hobbies. Just finished some Shakespearean tragedies. Some good, contemporary American poetry.
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom by Cahan
Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe by Stanley Hauerwas
Press and America, The: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media (Third Edition)
by Michael Emery (Author), Edwin Emery (Author), Nancy L. Roberts (Author)
This book continues my study of how the DriveBy Media evolved and became what it is today and how we can combat it. This is apparently a standard text used in J-schools.
Werner Jaeger’s Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture.”
Recommend or not?
I'm just starting this, but the premise is interesting.
Ptolemy’s Almagest”
Do you have to be an expert to read this?
Cesar Millan’s “Be The Pack Leader”
Can’t go wrong with Bob Heinlen. Try “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” if you haven’t read it already.
BTW, just finished “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”.
I highly recommend it!
Confessions - St. Augustine”
Take your time. Don’t rush it. Savor it. Could be life-changing.
Great book!
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