What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry

3/28/08

[MplsSteve]

OK everyone, it's time for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now" post.

I like to get a feel for what Freepers are reading these days. It can be anything...a best seller, a literary classic, a trashy pulp novel, a scientific journal, etc.

Do not demean this thread with posts like "I'm reading this Thread right now". It became un-funny a long time ago.

I'll start. I've just started "One Square Mile Of Hell: The Battle For Tarawa" by John Wukovitz.

Rather than a minute by minute account of the battle, it takes a more personalized view of the battle by interviewing a few combatants and the families of those who died in the battle. I wasn't sure I'd like this format at first - but am really starting to get into this book.

Well...what are YOU reading right now?

[tal hajus]

The first volume of the 1949-50 Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia.

[ElayneJ]

Yep Loved that one, too. I’m a huge, huge fan.
Have you read ANTHEM? It’s really short - maybe a two-hour read - but gripping.

[HamiltonJay]

Just finished rereading them a few months ago. Read them when they first came out as well.

Very good series, though the ending was a little light... wrapped up a little too cleanly, but definately worth reading and would recommend to any fan of the fantasy Genre.

I think actually I’ll read “War of the Flowers” by Tad Williams when I am done with the Dragonlance Legends trilogy.

The absolute must read of the Fantasy Genre is Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy... It is truly a masterpiece... a bit slow to get started, but when the entire epic is something like 3000+ pages, it takes a few hundred to get it all going. Get through the frist half of the first book and you won’t be able to put it down.

[avg_freeper]

"I never knew Adam Smith was such a spiritual thinker."

And O'Rourke gives the impression that Adam was a pretty likable guy too. A good guy to have at a party.

[Hoffer Rand]

I’ve read Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Finished “War of the Flowers” last month. Not too bad. Have you read the Otherland series, also Tad Williams? I’m about a third of the way through book 4.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There are risks in every venture, it seems.
Dad had 25 missions over the Hump. My uncle flew as a navigator out of Britain on more than a dozen missions over Germany, then was transfered to Benghazi and flew out of North Africa...
My dad was a civilian pilot and was a little too old to step forward in 1941. Since he knew airplanes and could pass the physical, the AAF was glad to have him.
He suffered burns in a crash landing, was treated at an Army burn center in San Antonio. He never received veteran's recognition or any benefits for his service in a war zone.

[ConservativeOrBust]

Read every one of them except his latest series. Some more than once.

[ConservativeOrBust]

Jeff Yeager: The Ultimate Cheapskate.

[JewishRighter]

Just finished Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. Excellent!

Also finishing Bolton’s Surrender is Not an Option. A little dry, but still a good primer on the nuts and bolts of how things get done (or don’t get done) in the nauseatingly hypocritical and deceptive world of diplomacy.

Reading F.A. Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom”. Ashamed to admit, for the first time.

Also recently finished WFB, Jr’s A Very Private Plot, one of the Blackford Oakes novels. Excellent as usual.

[HamiltonJay]

No, haven’t read that one, have debated reading it, just never gotten around to it.

[KYGrandma]

Hidden Prey by John Sanford.

[KYGrandma]

I read the first couple of chapers of What Came Before... and I couldn’t finish it. It is overly descriptive and wordy. Let me know the jist of the book. I think it is going to be rough life, bad breaks, no help, so he became a killer.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I read Hayek for the first time in 1987 or so. The company I once worked for had it on their recommended reading.

[knittnmom]

Based on my answers to the test, I’m an ISFJ. I’m trying to figure out what that means in my relationships with family, friends, and coworkers.

[avg_freeper]

I almost forgot an excellent book I recently finished by the name of "Arthur and George" by Julian Barnes.

It's a "true life" mystery set in 19th century Britain involving Arthur Conan Doyle.

I absolutely loved the book!

[firebrand]

Somebody left a bunch of Kingsley Amis paperbacks out by the trash. Reread Lucky Jim and one other, and discovered a bunch I hadn't read. And I have been laughing myself sick for weeks. I've also become very English.

[BraveMan]

“Black Redneck & White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell

“White Guilt” by Shelby Steele

“RSViewME Users Guide Volume II” by Rockwell Automation

[Grizzled Bear]

If you like Terry Goodkind you should check out David Gemmel’s “Rigante” series.

[firebrand]

If the movie (Breach)is accurate, he enjoyed having the special knowledge that the was the traitor all his colleagues were looking for. That is what he finally confessed.

Also he was not a Christian so much as a fanatical "traditional" Catholic, going to a church where the congregation remains kneeling for the entire service, for instance. A friend of mine who is Catholic thought the movie was anti-Catholic. Not so. It was anti-something--something more abstract than that. Empty worship while betraying your fellow human beings.

[Paperdoll]

Currently reading “The Rockefellers” by Collier and Horowitz, and “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg.