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What Are You Reading Now? - My (Belated) Quarterly Survey
7/29/09

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?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: booklist; books; booksuggestions; godsgravesglyphs; greatreads; haveyouread; literature; pages; readers; reading; readinglist
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To: MplsSteve

“Bel Ami” in French by Maupassant.

Just finished (finally) “The Lost” by Daniel Mendelsohn. A story of reconstructing what happened to the author’s relatives in the holocaust in the Ukraine. Fascinating research but nearly unreadable as whoever served as his editor should be sued for malpractice.


21 posted on 07/29/2009 7:39:05 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: MplsSteve

I am currently reading “Federalist/Anti-federalist”

It’s nice to be able to read the for and against arguments from our founding fathers. They both had some very good points.


22 posted on 07/29/2009 7:39:42 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Diversity causes division and resentment.)
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished Lone Survivor the story of Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of the SEAL Team 10 disaster in Afghanistan. Excellent read. He highlights the liberal's prosecution of soldiers for doing their job and how that led the team to let some goat herders go who had spotted them and they tipped off the Taliban. Highly recommended book.
23 posted on 07/29/2009 7:39:46 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: MplsSteve

Lights Out (Mark Steyn)

and for long train journeys “The Lion Hunts in Darkness” by Wilbur Smith


24 posted on 07/29/2009 7:40:21 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Lesforlife; noname07718

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25 posted on 07/29/2009 7:40:45 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: MplsSteve
Oh! and it's almost time (once every three years, as regular as a locust infestation) for me to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance again, as well...
26 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:12 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: noname07718

Yup...it’s a great book. One of the classics


27 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:41 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: agere_contra

Lion = Leopard. D’oh!


28 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:45 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: AppyPappy

There’s just something about the Great Smoky mtns, I love going to the Park and Gatlinburg.


29 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:47 AM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: MplsSteve

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Great read because it is happening right NOW!


30 posted on 07/29/2009 7:41:53 AM PDT by SteveMT
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To: MplsSteve

“The Tiwi of Northern Australia”

An anthropology study of a tribe where women are the units of value. A fascinating look at an alien culture.


31 posted on 07/29/2009 7:42:16 AM PDT by spaced
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To: MplsSteve

I’m working through Software Engineering with Ada by Brooch, just started Atlas Shrugs, and I’m thinking about rereading Hackworth’s Price of Honor.


32 posted on 07/29/2009 7:42:28 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: MplsSteve

Moby Dick, Plato’s Republic, some non-fiction related to business I’d like to be in, some short stories by various authors

Just finished The Iliad again

Would recommend Moby Dick ...so long as it is approached with patience and in small doses (there are 135 chapters)


33 posted on 07/29/2009 7:42:39 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: NMEwithin
"The Evolution of God" (Robert Wright), "God is Back" (Micklethwaite and Wooldridge) and, like another poster, "Democracy in America." I have bought "Soft Despotism," but haven't started it yet. I also mean to read "Economics Does Not Lie," by Guy Sorman.

Second half of August is vacation time, and I hope to knock a lot of this down then.

34 posted on 07/29/2009 7:42:46 AM PDT by untenured
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To: MplsSteve
I am reading a depressing horror story: “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”, by N. Pelosi
35 posted on 07/29/2009 7:43:27 AM PDT by bobsatwork
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To: Wyatt's Torch

I read that book too. I didn’t know what to think when I was done. The first part about the Seal training rang true and I had no reason to question any of it. But starting with the fateful mission gone wrong ... we have Marcus’s version of events with nothing to corroborate. Maybe it happened that way, maybe not. We do know he left the military pretty soon thereafter. I have a neighbor who’s a First Sergeant in the NG, and he said he’s heard some not so good things about the whole deal.


36 posted on 07/29/2009 7:43:54 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: MplsSteve

Finished Gladwell’s “Outliers” - interesting book. Reading “Barron’s” on Saturdays and “Atlantic” when it comes - - I’m looking around for something - this thread might have an answer...:)


37 posted on 07/29/2009 7:43:59 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: AppyPappy

my favorite TR biography is the first volume of the Edmund Morris set. I like that even better than the McCullough early life of TR, Mornings on Horseback.


38 posted on 07/29/2009 7:44:33 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: MplsSteve

About to re-read “The Mote In God’s Eye’. Do it every 5 yrs or so.


39 posted on 07/29/2009 7:44:56 AM PDT by CaptRon
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To: MplsSteve
I am still reading my way through US history, which I began doing in January. As I predicted on your last thread on reading, I am now bogged down in the civil war, and probably will be for at least another month.

I have noticed just how often the US economy has collapsed due to credit expansion based on bogus facts if not outright lies. Generally one company or bank Too Big To Fail collapses, and we're in a depression for a few years. I find this oddly comforting in a "this too shall pass" way-I can only imagine what reading/watching the news feels like to young people who may not know much about the Big Crash of 1929 , much less the panic of 1837...1857... ...

I finished rereading the Time Life Old West series just a few days ago. You know, the one with covers made of "real hand-tooled saddle leather!" Love those books.

I mentioned on your last thread that I had just started reading Terry Pratchett. I finished all his works. I like his Death and his witches novels, but I don't particularly care for the wizards, Rincewind (blasphemy alert!) or the Moist von Lipwig books. I think I am "Assasins Guild/Vetinari'd" out.

I am also rereading all my F & SF magazines, in search of a story I read *somewhere* in late winter/early spring 2008. No idea if the story was read in an anthology or a magazine, but I had no luck finding it in books, so now I am reading my magazines hoping to find it.

I have virtually every issue of F&SF magazine published between 1980 to 20009.

May God have mercy on my soul.

(If anyone recognizes this : The story was a horror story about a British archeologist who accompanies some M15 (?) agents to a remote uninhabited island in the north Atlantic. The archeologist is there to make it look like it's an expedition about old ruins . In acuality, it's a move against Soviet agents who are trying to set up a clandestine base there (the story is set in the early 1960s, but was written much more recently than that). Unfortunately, the team revives the reason the island is uninhabited : An insane , murderous zombie woman who was sacrificed to the gods circa tenth century A D to end a plague ravaging the island. Sound familiar to anyone?)

40 posted on 07/29/2009 7:45:46 AM PDT by kaylar
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