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?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

We the Living - Ayn Rand
The Making of Kubrick's 2001

[SE Mom]

DEAD HEAT - Dick Francis

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (again) - James Herriot

LIBERAL FASCISM - Jonah Goldberg

MY GRANDFATHER’S SON - Clarence Thomas

[UlmoLordOfWaters]

“Summer of 1787” by David O. Stewart.

[Fishtalk]

I am a True Crime Buff and below is a list of books I read in March and link to my Blog book reviews of same.

The Michigan Murders

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/tv-american-idol-08-miami-and-omaha.html

The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery” by Barbara Damato.

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/tv-final-amer-idol-traveling-tryouts.html

Kiss Me, Kill Me....by Ann Rule

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2008/02/guest-writer-michelle-writes-of-strange.html

[tongue-tied]

I just finished two books by Elizabeth George; With No One As Witness and What Came Before He Shot Her.

Not a huge amount of choices here but these two were sitting around, and once I got going I was turning pages and losing sleep. Very good how the second ties into the first.

[blau993]

Dark Sun, by Richard Rhodes. I bought this book years ago after reading Rhodes’ riveting story of the making of the atom bomb (which won him a Pulitzer). I never could get into it then, but now that I am retired with “time on my hands” I am deep into it. Fantastic book — history, science, espionage, and all true. Rhodes is a gifted writer, and for anyone interested in the “atomic era” I highly recommend these books.

[Little Pig]

I’m reading The Hobbit to my daughter.

[Fishtalk]

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (again) - James Herriot

One of my all time fave books.

[trillabodilla]

The Expositor’s Study Bible.

[Lee N. Field]

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen

Heavy, dude!

I'll have to take another swing at that sometime. I was in the middle that a couple years ago when I got waylayed by some work related study, and lost track of his argumentation.

[libertarian27]

Liberal Fascism

“The Secret History of the American Left
from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”

by Jonah Goldberg

[ElayneJ]

Liberal Fascism (apparently this one is hot right now!)
Darwin’s Black Box by Behe

[ChessExpert]

1.) DON'T TREAD on ME
A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
By H.W. Crocker III

2.) THE CHURCH AND THE MARKET
A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy
by Thomas E. Woods Jr.

3.) Prince Caspian
(Book 2 in the Chronicles of Narnia)

These may take a while. But I DO finish books I start. I recently finished:

VIENNA & CHICAGO
Friends or Foes? By Mark Skousen

[Rummyfan]

I've started in on the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser. Have completed so far

FLASHMAN
ROYAL FLASH
and FLASH FOR FREEDOM.

The man gets more action than James Bond, Mike Hammer, and Mick Jagger combined. Oh, and the tales are hilarious and outrageously politically incorrect!

[NeoCaveman]

Finishing “Confessions” by St. Augustine

then starting “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg.

[antisocial]

Silent Victory The 2 volume set by Clay Blair,jr

[AngryCapitalist]

Just finished “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, “The Old Man and the Sea”, and “The Sun Also Rises”.

Currently reading “A farewell to Arms” and various essays on Urban Political Economy.

Hemingway ROCKS.... the UPE essays, not so much.

[SeaHawkFan]

Kay Arthur is very good. Just don’t listen to her on the topic of sex within marriage.

[Originalist]

The Biblical Doctrine of Inspiration

Basil Manly, Jr

[Ribeye]

“1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI—the Untold Story” - Peter Lance

“The Torment of Others” by Val McDermid

“The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SF Hall of Fame)” - by Robert Silverberg