Posted on 07/03/2008 8:40:03 AM PDT by MplsSteve
OK everyone, it's time for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
I like finding out what Freepers are reading lately. It can be anything...a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel, an old classic...in short, anything!
Please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm Reading This Thread". It became very unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm close to finishing "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow. It's about the siege/battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
Well, what are you reading now?!
Memoir of a cold war soldier / by Richard E. Mack
Once saved, always saved? : a New Testament study of apostasy / Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr.
Sams teach yourself Java 2 in 21 days / Laura Lemay, Rogers Cadenhead.
The seventh gate / Richard Zimler.
Sgt. York : his life, legend & legacy : the remarkable untold story of Sergeant Alvin C. York / John Perry.
Escape / Dwight R. Messimer.
The ghost war / Alex Berenson.
I am thinking that I might read the first couple of books ...I know they will be very good, interesting books. The thing is ... from where I picked up ‘The Ezekiel Option’ , he carried the characters through to the end. So it is knowing the end from the beginning if I do read the first two of the series.
You will not be disappointed. These are must reads. Probably it is best to begin with the first one for anyon that is new to the series.
I also recommend Epicenter.
I read the “Left Behind series years ago.
Joel Rosenberg’s series is much my preference.
Few are mentioning the Bible, and I wonder, how many of us read portions of the Bible every day? I do. If I read nothing else, I still read that.
I read “War and Peace” twenty years ago. It was gripping. Funny you found the last 2-3 chapters boring. I found the first 2-3 chapters just about impossible (so many different Russian names, I couldn’t keep them straight). But I persevered. What a great book.
Just finished “Wonderful Tonight” last night by Pattie Boyd. I thought her insights about marriage to Clapton and Harrison would be interesting, but she kind of dances around most edges and I was often disappointed. Also, I can’t listen to “Something” or “Layla” or “Wonderful Tonight” without being cynical, now.
I’m in the middle of “Marine” (story of Chesty Puller) and it is above average for a book with a lot of battles in it. Probably most FReepers love books with a lot of battles, anyway. Chesty deserves to be remembered, so I am glad there is a book about him.
The Appeal by John Grisham
Read that last year; awesome book.
Just started Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. After that I'm going to read Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum.
Start with Jihad....I started out of order and all stand alone but they are best in order.
The Preacher and the Presidents
great, thank you...I got through about 4 of the left behind series and they’re ok (ie so so). Another poster just posted to start w/ Jihad. Will I know which to go to next?
I’ll also read epicenter.
thank you. I’m looking forward to getting started. The next after Jihad is....?
I just received “Churchill and the Jews” by Martin Gilbert, so maybe I will read it this weekend. I am also reading “The Bin Ladens” by Steve Coll.
The Third Policeman, by that crazy Irishman, Flann O’Brien. A whimsical tale of a murderer’s trip through Hell. If you appreciate the lunacy of Monty Python, you’ll love Flann O’Brien.
Yeah, I felt the same way... it really draws you in. The French soldiers fought so well, and showed such resolve, determination, and confidence even to the last-- heartbreaking. It was a tragic situation, with so many lessons to be learned, both at the policy, operational, and tactical level.
The Greatest Battle - Moscow 1941 by Adam Nagorski (son of a Polish Officer, BTW).
Operation Broken Reed - about an US mission INTO NorthKorea during the war.
Agent ZigZag by Ben MacIntyre about Eddie Chapman, Secret Agent for both Abwehr and MI5/6.
Thanks — I will check it out!
Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 in book form, and at the same time, Thomas Sowell’s Economic Facts and Fallacies, and Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlit. Two of these are in my kindle, and I switch back and forth...actually a good fit. The Three New Deals is a very scary book, with all sorts of parallels to this time and this election.
Regards, vharlow
Dragged Aboard (a book for mates who aren’t into sailing)
‘Salem’s Lot. Stephen King (actually a book on cd)
Lucky Star and the Big Sun of Mercury
Sky and Telescope for August 2008
Probably something else soon.
I always enjoy book threads - any kind.
An unapologetically, refreshingly Eurocentric history of the world from the beginnings of civilization to the modern era. Roberts by no means ignores non-Western cultures, rather his basic premise is let's not kid ourselves regarding their importance to world history.
Just finished James Patterson’s “Sundays at Tiffany’s.”
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