Posted on 07/29/2009 7:23:00 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Well, it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
I do this thread to gauge what other Freepers are reading. As all of you know, Freepers are probably some of the more well-read individuals on the Internet and I'm always curious as to what we're reading.
It can be anything, a classic work of fiction, a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short anything.
Please do not ruin this thread by replying "I'm reading this thread". It become un-funny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm about halfway thru "The Horrid Pit: The Battle Of The Crater" by Alan Axelrod. It's a great book that concentrates on one of the more controversial and bloody battles of the Civil War.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
Just started: "A History of Iran" by Michael Axworthy
The first full-length biography in English, of the Italian priest with the stigmata. After years of research, Ruffin has come up with an engrossing look at perhaps this century’s most amazing religious figure. The author, Bernard C. Ruffin, is a Lutheran minister.
Midnight Falcon by David Gemmel... very good fantasy.
The Rainmaker - John Grisham
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - RObert A. Heinlein . I want to thank the Freeper who mentioned this in the last Summer Readings thread, it’s been a real good summer page turner so far.
And in the mail to me:
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science by Ian Plimer
I had trouble getting started because of so many great new books out there. I'm into this one now. it actually makes me pissed off that this great American’s name has been somehow transformed into some sort of a slur.
Last week I read “Catastrophe” by Dick Morris. Actually I have mixed feelings about that book, though it should absolutely be read by FReepers all. He documents in that work what we all already know, but we did not have the details on.
I have not read that, but thanks for the tip. He is in RTB and does a great job. Definitely knew his stuff!!!
The origins of totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
1. Goldfinger
2. Live and Let Die - (unabridged uncensored)
3. Casino Royale
4. Moonraker
5. Diamonds are Forever
6. From Russia with love
7. Dr No
8. Thunderball
9. The Spy who loved Me - (unabridged uncensored)<
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
11. You Only Live Twice
12. The Man with Golden Gun
13. Octopussy/Living Daylights
14. For Your Eyes Only (reading right now)
15. Colonel Sun (Kingsley Amis' post Fleming James Bond novel, on deck)
15. The Ipcress File (on Deck)
16. Science Fiction Secrets (Non Fiction/speculative)
Read all those Ian Flemming ones too....when they were originally released. Read most of them while in the Air Force....allot of TDY to Lybia and Turkey.
I’m impressed — and you even got a nonfiction title in there! I’ve been working on two books, “Did Marco Polo Go To China?” (which is pretty much a survey work) and “Bones” (which is about Precolumbian America).
...and I still haven’t sent that DVD... my apologies... gotta find it... there was a landslide of sorts, and I think it’s trapped under there... ;’)
Yeah sure. How many years has it been now? (Damn Yankees!)
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, just finished AN ETHIC FOR CHRISTIAN AND OTHER ALIENS IN A STRANGE LAND by William Stringfellow
Well, less than two...
“Gates of Fire”. Had started to read it years ago and never finished. Wish I had. I had a $6 paperback back then. This one cost me 15!
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I read a lot of his stuff, good light reading. I have been reading Jim Butchers stuff not bad for mind fornication. I have been reading more fantasy due to the lack of Hard SF for several years.
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