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?

[mollynme]

Just a ping to show how many people are currently reading “Liberal Fascism”. Started your copy yet? I've been reliving my childhood by slogging through the entire Narnia series. I have just “The Last Battle” left. I'd forgotten most of them - but then it has been 40+ years. ;o(

[Verloona Ti]

Hey, my DBF just got his MCSA-we got the signed docs from Bill Gates himself just a few days ago. He’s going for his MCSE (?) classes next.

[RenegadeNC]

Re-reading C.S.Lewis’s “The Great Divorce”.
Also reading “Reagan’s War:The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism” by Peter Schweizer and “A Spiritual History of Our Nation: Prayer in America” by James P. Moore, Jr.

[ChocChipCookie]

Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend

[bperiwinkle7]

I am reading it online from the
http://www.puritanlibrary.com/

Also, the Introduction by J I Packer is wonderful.
http://www.lgmarshall.org/Owen/packer_deathintro.html

It is worth it to wade.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Steve:
There is a book I would like to write someday. It is the story of my father's life before I came into the world. As a young man, he worked with his father installing Otis Elevators in China, got a BS in Mechanical Engineering at night from Michigan State, worked as an airline pilot for China National Airlines Company, flew the Hump for the Army Air Force as a civilian pilot in the CBI. Married in '45 at age 39. Three years later, I came into the world.
We went to Asia where he worked for the Army/State Department. I think it could be a good yarn.

[stayathomemom]

The Michigan Murders

I'll have to check that one out. My oldest sister was just heading to U of M for her freshman year when those were happening.

I'm reading Catastrophe by David Keys. Someone mentioned it in an earlier thread. Apparently, around 535-6 AD something terrible happened and the history of the world was changed. I won't find out what until the end of the book, but the suspense is killing me.;)

[The Toll]

SLASH by Slash and Anthony Boza.

After the McCain thing happened I had to check out of politics for a little while.

[DesertSapper]

My Organizational Behavior course textbook for my MSIS. Wow, a real page-turner . . . zzzzz.

[7thson]

Right now I am reading Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans. I have about 200 pages left and will then read something in the fiction category. After that I plan on reading Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg. Yesterday I ordered from Amazon.com The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer.

To be blunt, I am getting weary and depressed from reading these books. Why? Because the contain so much factual and truthful information which the vast majority of the citizens seem unaware of and really don't care to know. I use to think if the American public actually knew what the hell is really going on, they would rise up and demand adherance to the Constitution. I am fast believing the American public doesn't give a damn as long as they have American Idol and whatever brand of sports they favor at the moment.

[DFG]

Just finished reading “Lone Survivor” by Marcus Lattrell. I highly recommend it. His description about their Rules of Engagement (ROE) will make you angry. Other parts will make you cry.

[Non-Sequitur]

"The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" which is Volume 2 of Rick Atkinson's trilogy on the war in Europe. Very good. "John Adams" by David McCulloch. Might get to it. And "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway" by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. The last is an in depth look at the battle from the Japanese side, and the authors make it clear that the U.S. win at Midway was not a miracle, but that in fact the Japanese had badly overreached and had pretty much stacked the deck against themselves.

On tap for next month, "General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse" by Joseph Glathaar.

[LucyJo]

I’ve just begun reading it. I’m enjoying it too.

[7thson]

I purchased my copy at Sam’s a couple weeks back.

[Non-Sequitur]

My latest Costco acquisition. Really good. But how come Adams' picture on the cover looks like Russell Crowe?

Because Paul Giamatti wasn't available?

[Mother Mary]

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

[bert]

Per the suggestion of Blam, I am reading “Voyages of the Pyramid Builders”.

Also, just began”The History of Salt”

[DesertSapper]

Also reading the credits at the end of the campaign on Call of Duty 4 (Xbox360). Now THAT was a blast!

[SlayerOfBunnies]

I'm reading Catastrophe by David Keys. Someone mentioned it in an earlier thread. Apparently, around 535-6 AD something terrible happened and the history of the world was changed. I won't find out what until the end of the book, but the suspense is killing me.;)

Helen Thomas was born - sorry for the spoiler.

[sarasota]

I Am America and So Can You (Colbert); A Friendly Dialogue Between an Atheist and a Christian.