What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry

7/03/08 | MplsSteve

[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?!

[keithtoo]

Great, when you die, show this book to the bouncer at the door marked "Hell - Entrance" and you will get put to the front of the line.

P.S.: Bring your asbestos book cover.

[Sunnyflorida]

Just finishing up the last volume of Samuel Eliot Morison’s 15 Volume set of the History of the United States Navy in WWII - second read. Great story.

[Just another Joe]

Memo to the President Elect by Madeleine Albright

Yeh, I know, consider the source.

But, she makes some good points, even if she lets her bias come out at times.

[doodad]

Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman

[maclay]

Gnostic stuff mostly:

* Valis by Philip K. Dick

* The Nag Hammadi Library, The Definitive Translation

[saminfl]

Just started:

Savage Frontier, 1835-1837: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas (Savage Frontier)

[RightWhale]

reading Atlas Shrugged

Might as well read the daily newspaper, it's happening now, pretty much the same except where is that gold bar they promised?.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough.

[wastedyears]

I’m re-reading Richard Marcinko’s SEAL Force Alpha right now.

I still have to finish Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy. (that has had a bookmark for years)

[gate2wire]

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.

[Danae]

“The Entire and the Rose” Series by Kay Kenyon. Very creative, good series. Not as good as the “Third Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” Stephen Donaldson.... now THAT is a materpiece.

[day10]

Not too bad - typical Koontz - a bit formulaic, but the Odd Thomas character is so likeable and Koontz always throws in some humor. Worth a quick read.

[Redcloak]

[ml/nj]

ML/NJ

[HardStarboard]

The Loomming Tower: al Qaeda and the road to 911

Alantic: Scott Cookman - a 1905 sailboat race across the Alantic sponsored by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.

Godforsaken Sea: Derek Lundy - great author, book about singlehanded round-the-world sailboat racers.

The Way of a Ship: Derek Lundy - a square rigger voyage around Cape Horn in the last days of sailing schooners.

[wastedyears]

That’s something I’d enjoy reading.

[BoneHead]

Life of Washington I by Washington Irving.

An account 100 years closer to the real events that cites original source documents from personal letters to state/assembly legislation. In book I Pre Revolution.

Just getting around to Lexington/Concord, Ethan Allen and Ticonderoga.

A little difficult to read at times, Small type and earlier American english.

[FReepaholic]

Just finished:

Currently reading:

On deck:

[Daus]

If you read one book this summer make it:

The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour - Andrei Cherny

This is the best non-fiction book I've read in a long time. Anyone doubting our abilities to convert a culture into a democracy needs to read this book.

I am now on to:

"Monster of Florence" - Douglas Preston.
Very good look back at the real case of the Florence serial killings which were the basis for a lot of the Hannibal Lecter books.

[Tammy8]

The Majesty of Law; Sandra Day O’Connor

I was often unhappy with O’Connor as a Supreme Court justice, but I recommend this book to anyone that is interested in the Constitution and wants to know why we have come so far from the vision of the Framers of the Constitution. Many of the court cases that brought us to where we are are discussed in this book and it makes it all a little clearer. It is a well written book, and interesting to read some of the history of the court. This book came out when she was still on the bench, but I am just now getting around to reading it. The great thing is it can be found cheap now.