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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry
3/28/08
Posted on 03/28/2008 6:52:40 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve
With the Twins opener days away, I just picked up The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W. P. Kinsella.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:51:28 AM PDT
by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
To: katieanna
I’ve talked to a few Christian women who have read a particular book by her, the name of which escapes me at the momemt. Let’s just say she is very conservative in what she thinks are apropriate sex acts within marriage. As an example, she thinks oral sex is wrong; when virtually every Christian author writing on the topic of marital sex say it’s just fine and that Song of Solomon makes some very specific references to oral sex within marriage.
To: TexasNative2000
Ken Follett is a bit too fascinated with brutal rape for my tastes. I wanted to wash my hands after finishing that book.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:52:30 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: MplsSteve
I just found the Amelia Peabody books a few weeks ago. I am halfway through the series, and can’t put them down.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:54:56 AM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Vote for The Huckster 2012- Who needs White House furniture, anyway?)
To: Tanniker Smith
I’m reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Great book!
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:55:13 AM PDT
by
Democrat_media
(Socialism will destroy a country economically. why dems & Mccain for Socialism?)
To: iceskater
I'm waiting for the last one in the series.
I figure it will be called by the name of the shaman in her current tribe, "Zellandonia", or something like that.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:55:26 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: MplsSteve
“Seeds of Albion”, “The Kolbrin”
To: avg_freeper
Indeed. There were certainly other literary devices which could have been used to portray the evil of Wm. Hamleigh, but I doubt they would have had the impact.
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posted on
03/28/2008 8:57:47 AM PDT
by
TexasNative2000
(Is this tagline governed by McCain-Feingold?)
To: ElayneJ
I’ll read WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand next.
I’m Reading another of her books “Atlas Shrugged” and i liked it a lot.
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:00:00 AM PDT
by
Democrat_media
(Socialism will destroy a country economically. why dems & Mccain for Socialism?)
To: mpackard; MplsSteve; iceskater
I completed Joel Rosenberg's Dead Heat this morning. It's the best page-turner in the series so-far, if not the best writing he's done in the series. He has an awesome grip on where we're headed. He's put LeHay and Jenkins to shame imho, although his "Left Behind" ... (slight spoiler here...)
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... doesn't start until the final chapter of Dead Heat.
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:02:26 AM PDT
by
Drumbo
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
To: MplsSteve
Total Truth, by Nancy Pearcey (fifth time)
The Truth War, by John MacArthur
He Is There, He Is Not Silent, by Francis Schaeffer
How Now Shall We Then Live, by Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey
Understanding the Times, by David Noebel
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:04:29 AM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: MplsSteve; Tanniker Smith
Strangers In Death by J.D.Robb a.k.a Nora Roberts
(an Eve Dallas series - they follow sequence so it's best to find book one - Naked in Death - if interested. An important note here - this is not a book for children - an R-rated book in that it is very graphic)
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper (this is the first in a new trilogy of A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series)
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:04:53 AM PDT
by
beachn4fun
(Yeah, but are you really ready for the change he'll bring?)
To: SeaHawkFan
I would say it would have to depend also upon what a person is comfortable with. OS (I can’t even bring myself to type out the words) IMO crosses the line from love-making to lust and nastiness. To each his own is what I’m saying.
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To: mpackard
I have met only 2 people in real life I hate more than Holden Caulfield and, by extension, JD Salinger.
JD is a recluse because he not only knows some reader would kill him, but that all you’d have to do in your defense is make the jury read the book and they would not only vote to acquit, they’d vote to dig up t\he body and kill him again.
To: MplsSteve
State of Fear by Crichton, An excellent read.
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:21:26 AM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
To: 80 Square Miles
“Please Understand Me” is an interesting book. Good insight into personality types and what makes different people tick. I’m an INTP.
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:22:36 AM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(Where is Galt's Gulch?)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
My ex-father-in-law wrote a self-published book about all of his missions as a B-24 bombardier during WWII. It was very interesting reading. One mission, for example, was part of a 3 part flight where they flew from England to Moscow on a bomb run, Moscow to Italy on the second leg and Italy back to England on the third leg. He even received a medal from the Soviets for that mission.
He started a follow-up about his life during the war outside the plane but his wife read about him dating some British ladies and went off the deep end.
To: mpackard
I have to agree on that one. I read “Innocent Man” last year and really enjoyed it but it was non-fiction. “The Appeal” was pretty boring and extremely lefty leaning for me. The ending was very obvious. I was sad to see that too. I really like some his earlier work. I liked both “The Partner” and “The Broker” really well.
I am really enjoying “Liberal Fascism” by the way. Learning alot of stuff that I did not have any idea about.
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:28:14 AM PDT
by
Big Red Clay
(Greetings from the Big Red State)
To: MplsSteve
History, of course.
Re-reading Gordon Rhea’s series on Grant’s Overland Campaign v. Lee in 1864. Almost through “Battle of the Wilderness.” The other books are “Spotsylvania and the Road to Yellow Tavern,” “To the North Anna River” and finally “Cold Harbor.” Will then read “Siege of Petersburg” which, although by a different author, will conclude my study of the end of the Civil War in the Virginia theater.
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posted on
03/28/2008 9:28:40 AM PDT
by
henkster
(I'm a typical white guy.)
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