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 have not been near a "Borders" in years. I have some gift cards for there. I'd better use them up soon then.
There was a potential joke in this post somewhere, but I'm short of time.
“Schindler’s List” by Thomas Keneally
(the book from which the movie was made)
Thanks,
I made it half way through GEB 15 years ago, and it’s sat on my shelf for a long time making me feel guilty. This time I will finish it (a pride thing). I’ll glady take your advice and check out his other book.
Thanks for the recommendation. When I get through with my current read, I will see if I can get the first one from the library and give it a try.
The Last Jihad
The Last Days
The Ezekiel Option
The Copper Scrolls and
Dead Heat.
He has been something of a predictors of some events. I am on Chapter 33...I hope he is not anywhere near right on some of this novels plot.
I can almost guarantee what he was reading when he tossed the book.
I watched Breach and was on the edge of my seat from the first scene. Because of your descriptions and facts, I will be getting the book ASAP!
And I'm also impressed by the breadth and depth of Freepers minds, opinions, sense of humor, IQ’s and taste level.
I’m not reading much, I’m too busy writing my third novel, “Foreign Enemies.”
Pinging some folks I know to enjoy reading...
I read Gentlemen of the Road and when I got to the end, I went back to page one and read it again.
Thanks for all the good tips.
Have just discovered a new mystery writer, William Krueger. His books are set in cold, cold Northern Minn. Finished the first two in the series; Iron Lake and Boundary Waters. Includes some interesting Indian lore of that region.
Currently reading “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon. Fascinating historical novel of 18th century Scotland. This is the first in a series.
New Lessons in Arc Welding, Lincoln Electric Company.
Road to Resistance, George Millar.
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navpers 16163-A.
Sherman - Fighting Prophet, Lloyd Lewis.
My Apprenticeship, Maxim Gorky
Reading: Jane Eyre
Listening to: Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
If you remember, or look back, he continually blames "capitalism" as the ember that stoked the slave trade until abolition. While that's true to an extent, Rediker, IMHO, placed more emphasis, and blame, on the white merchants, ship captains and crew, rather than Africans who sold their fellow countrymen as human cargo.
Just my thoughts.
Except for the "blame whitey" and "capitalism" slant, it was an excellent read.
Here’s my list of books I have read or reading right now this first quarter:
“Liberal Fascism” Goldberg
“Fantastic Voyage” Kurzweil (great stuff!)
“Bird Flu Manual” Woodson (scary! —how not to be toast when it hits)
“Defining the Word” Tvetnes (informative)
“World without End” Follette (convincing look at ancient times)
“The Great War if Civilization” Fisk (wow!
“The War of the World” Ferguson (great research!)
“The Real History of the American Revolution” Axelrod (just starting)
“Whitewash” Bozelle (skewers the media for their soft-ball treatment of Hitlery)
Heavy stuff, but great reads! I just bought all six volumes of Churchill’s history of WW II for a mere $12!. I always wanted to read them and only now will start.
Currently reading:
“Piercing the Reich”, by Joseph E.Persico-tells how ‘Wild’ Bill Donovan set up the OSS and how the agents and Operations played out during WW II.
Next up will be “The War in the Air”, edited by Gavin Lyall about the RAF in WWII; then “SAGE” by Col. Jerry Sage, known as “Dagger” of the OSS, the man the Nazis couldn’t hold...
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