What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry

3/28/08

[Radix]

"Borders is on the verge of bankruptcy anyway. They’re trying to get bought out by somebody to save themselves. I wonder why."

I have not been near a "Borders" in years. I have some gift cards for there. I'd better use them up soon then.

There was a potential joke in this post somewhere, but I'm short of time.

[truth_seeker]

“Schindler’s List” by Thomas Keneally

(the book from which the movie was made)

[ALPAPilot]

Thanks,

I made it half way through GEB 15 years ago, and it’s sat on my shelf for a long time making me feel guilty. This time I will finish it (a pride thing). I’ll glady take your advice and check out his other book.

[Greystoke]

Great. Besides the time they spent in Easy company, they talk about their lives before and after WWII. Amazing what America was like in the 30s and 40s. Most of it is written by them, with a professional writer, Robyn Post, tying it all together.

[Pablo64]

Thanks for the recommendation. When I get through with my current read, I will see if I can get the first one from the library and give it a try.

[mware]

I'm reading DEAD HEAT by Joel C. Rosenberg. It's the last in his series. Those interested in reading them they are in this order.

The Last Jihad

The Last Days

The Ezekiel Option

The Copper Scrolls and

Dead Heat.

He has been something of a predictors of some events. I am on Chapter 33...I hope he is not anywhere near right on some of this novels plot.

[TexasNative2000]

I can almost guarantee what he was reading when he tossed the book.

[bonfire]

I watched Breach and was on the edge of my seat from the first scene. Because of your descriptions and facts, I will be getting the book ASAP!

[garyhope]

Thanks for posting this. It's an informative and good learning experience.

And I'm also impressed by the breadth and depth of Freepers minds, opinions, sense of humor, IQ’s and taste level.

[Travis McGee]

I’m not reading much, I’m too busy writing my third novel, “Foreign Enemies.”

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Well, earlier today I ordered Peter F. Hamilton's latest SF novel, "The Dreaming Void", and the 10th Harry Dresden novel by Jim Butcher, "Small Favor". To prepare, I'm currently re-reading the ninth Dresden novel, "White Night".

Pinging some folks I know to enjoy reading...

[Brasil]

I'm on hold at the library for Dead Heat and Liberal Fascism and hope my name comes up soon.

I read Gentlemen of the Road and when I got to the end, I went back to page one and read it again.

Thanks for all the good tips.

[finch]

Have just discovered a new mystery writer, William Krueger. His books are set in cold, cold Northern Minn. Finished the first two in the series; Iron Lake and Boundary Waters. Includes some interesting Indian lore of that region.

Currently reading “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon. Fascinating historical novel of 18th century Scotland. This is the first in a series.

[WorkingClassFilth]

New Lessons in Arc Welding, Lincoln Electric Company.

Road to Resistance, George Millar.

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navpers 16163-A.

Sherman - Fighting Prophet, Lloyd Lewis.

My Apprenticeship, Maxim Gorky

[MrsPatriot]

Reading: Jane Eyre

Listening to: Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

[HoosierHawk]

While I wouldn't question the historic rendering, (and I, like you, thought that the treatment of the white sailors by the Jamaican blacks was very touching and sympathetic), I didn't feel that Rediker was objective at all in his approach to the economics of the slave trade.

If you remember, or look back, he continually blames "capitalism" as the ember that stoked the slave trade until abolition. While that's true to an extent, Rediker, IMHO, placed more emphasis, and blame, on the white merchants, ship captains and crew, rather than Africans who sold their fellow countrymen as human cargo.

Just my thoughts.

Except for the "blame whitey" and "capitalism" slant, it was an excellent read.

[Paulus Invictus]

Here’s my list of books I have read or reading right now this first quarter:

“Liberal Fascism” Goldberg
“Fantastic Voyage” Kurzweil (great stuff!)
“Bird Flu Manual” Woodson (scary! —how not to be toast when it hits)
“Defining the Word” Tvetnes (informative)
“World without End” Follette (convincing look at ancient times)
“The Great War if Civilization” Fisk (wow!
“The War of the World” Ferguson (great research!)
“The Real History of the American Revolution” Axelrod (just starting)
“Whitewash” Bozelle (skewers the media for their soft-ball treatment of Hitlery)

Heavy stuff, but great reads! I just bought all six volumes of Churchill’s history of WW II for a mere $12!. I always wanted to read them and only now will start.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The Death of the Grown-Up by Diane West and Brain and Culture by Bruce Wexler - on deck: Swett and Ziegler's To Set the Record Straight......

[billmor]

Currently reading:

“Piercing the Reich”, by Joseph E.Persico-tells how ‘Wild’ Bill Donovan set up the OSS and how the agents and Operations played out during WW II.

Next up will be “The War in the Air”, edited by Gavin Lyall about the RAF in WWII; then “SAGE” by Col. Jerry Sage, known as “Dagger” of the OSS, the man the Nazis couldn’t hold...

[tongue-tied]

I had read one of her others with the same inspector characters so was willing to check these out. Wow! Both great reads.

Also got hooked on George R. R. Martin's series. So now I'm waiting on two new ones to be released!