Posted on 03/28/2008 6:52:40 AM PDT by 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?
COngrats! I just completed MCP and MCDST and just started the MCSA track. I don’t intend to stop until I have gone thru the alphabet - maybe twice :o)
While recuperating from my recent heart attack, I have decided to reread the collected works of Rudyard Kipling, starting with the poetry. Makes for a nice respite from the blood pressure elevating fare on FR.
And the synchronicity thing is really working for me! It is amazing.
Just completed: The Open Society and Its Enemies (Karl Popper)
Currently: The Constitution of Liberty (FA Hayek)
On Cue: Liberal Fascism (Jonah Goldberg); The Second World War (John Keegan); Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
I used to read political and spiritual books all the time, but lately I have lost interest in them. I get so much of this from the Web and magaiznes I subscribe to. But you can't find good works of biography or fiction on the Web or in a magazine.
Blacklisted By History is next on my list.
I’ve read a few pages here and there and it looks good.
I’m reading “The Kent Chronicles”, a bicentennial series about the birth of America from 18th century England to modern times. It was written in 1976 by John Jakes (a little liberal for me, but he’s a good writer). I read it when it first came out and am enjoying it again all these years later. Just finished The Reagan Diaries - good read.
Atlas Shrugged
still my favorite book of all time. Plan to re-read during beach time this summer.
Barmes & Noble had “Liberal Fascism” out front with the best sellers.
My local Border’s does not. They have it buried in back with the “Political” books.
I always walk to the back and get a few copies of it and place it in front of the Hussein Obambi O’Baloney books or Al Franken books.
I ask them why its not out front with the other best sellers and never get an answer.
Borders is on the verge of bankruptcy anyway. They’re trying to get bought out by somebody to save themselves. I wonder why.
Have you read all the George books? The ones you cited were her last two. I think she has a new one coming out this year. She is one of my favorite authors.
That book (we the living) still moves me like none of the others have. Enjoy, it’s a goody
Loved loved loved the all creatures books and brit tv shows.
Bernard Cornwell’s THE GALLOWS THIEF and Boris Akunin’s THE DEATH OF ACHILLES. Both historical mysteries.
BOOK-CLUB PING.
What are you reading now?
Great author. Really brings history to life.
Love anything by Gertz
Just finished the latest John Harvey book-British police procedural.
I’ve been mostly reading my own draft for my book. It has been a rather busy time lately with little time for reading.
The first is last year's Biography of Charles M. Schulz, which is sooooo dreary and depressing that I'm giving up on it. It's not how I wish to remember him
Next is "2001: A Space Oddysey". I read 3001 a few years ago, but none of the others. Clarke's death had me request it.
The third one is rather obscure: "Fantasia Mathematica", which I saw in a bibliography of Clarke's. It piqued my interest.
I also just updated this link:
http://www.geocities.com/tanniker"
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