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?
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.
Ken Follett is a bit too fascinated with brutal rape for my tastes. I wanted to wash my hands after finishing that book.
I just found the Amelia Peabody books a few weeks ago. I am halfway through the series, and can’t put them down.
I’m reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Great book!
I figure it will be called by the name of the shaman in her current tribe, "Zellandonia", or something like that.
“Seeds of Albion”, “The Kolbrin”
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.
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.
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper (this is the first in a new trilogy of A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series)
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.
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.
State of Fear by Crichton, An excellent read.
“Please Understand Me” is an interesting book. Good insight into personality types and what makes different people tick. I’m an INTP.
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.
I am really enjoying “Liberal Fascism” by the way. Learning alot of stuff that I did not have any idea about.
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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