Spy Hook... it's been awhile
Posted on 04/05/2010 7:53:56 PM PDT by MplsSteve
Hello everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You reading Now?" thread.
I consider Freepers to be some of the more well-read people on the Internet and I'm always curious as to what you're all reading.
In short, it can be anything - a classic novel, a NY Times best seller, a trashy pulp novel, a technical journal...in short, anything.
Please do not defile this thread by posting something inane like "I'm reading this thread". It became really unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm about 65 pages into "War Like The Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta" by Russell S Bonds. So far, so good. I can't complain.
Well, what are you reading now?
The Magus (John Fowles)
1984 (Orwell)
The Three Deceivers....easy read, but uniquely written. Open the book from the Three Deceivers side and read about the “deceivers,” then turn the book upside down and over and the title on the back is The Three Alternatives (to the deceivers.)
How Animals Think by Dr. Temple Granden.
Excellent book by an autistic animal behavior expert. The premise of her book is that autistic people think and experience the world much like other mammals do. Fascinating and an entertaining read.
AND
Dread Empire’s Fall by Walter Jon Williams. Decent SciFi novel.
Spy Hook... it's been awhile
Oh yeah, the third book is a Microsoft book Developing in Silverlight.
I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation by Bruce Chadwick
Dune is still one of my favorites, but I found all the sequels disappointing.
Atlas Shrugged is a classic, of course. I’ve never gone back and read it again, though.
The Last of the Mohicans
Finally, I came across one of these threads while it was active, instead of one or two mos old. (Is there a ping list?) Anyway, I just finished a trio of old murder mysteries from the forties: The Sleeping Sphinx, Beagle Scented Murder and Death of a Doll. They were great; I love older fiction.
Btw, I am an aspiring Young Adult Christian Fantasy/SF writer, with reason to believe I may soon be published. I’m always looking for good beta readers. If you would like more information, please PM me; thanks!
“Live Free or Die” by John Ringo (A SF novel)
“Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise” by Camillo Agrippa, Ed. by Ken Mondschien (A modern translation of a 16th c. swordfighting manual)
Sean Hannity’s latest.
1. Boone (biography of Daniel Boone)
2. Heck (juvenile lit., humorous adventure about “where the bad kids go”. Sort of like Purgatory and junior high combined. Richard Nixon is the ethics teacher and Blackbeard the Pirate teaches p.e.)
3. The Synoptic Gospels (bible study materials)
4. Don Camillo (humor, small-town priest in post-WWII Italy spars with communist mayor of the town.)
5. Percy Jackson and The Olympians, vol. two, The Sea of Monsters (reading out loud with kids, juvenile lit. with adventure and humor, Freepers would think it’s a bit “green”, but would like that a major point is that western civilization is worth fighting to save.)
“John Adams” by David McCullough.
Tim Powers is a great read. The forthcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie is supposed to be based off of his "On Stranger Tides", but I dread what they are likely to do with it.
This evening, re-browsing The Discourses of Epictetus, and later this evening doing the same with The Mother of the Buddhas by Lex Hixon.
Longer term, about a third of the way through Guadalcanal: Starvation Island, by Eric Hammel.
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