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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey
10/01/10 | MplsSteve

Posted on 10/01/2010 8:54:31 AM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read member of the cyber world. I like to find out what you're all reading.

Essentially, it can be anything. A timeless classic, a trashy pulp novel, a technical journal, etc. In short, anything!

Please do not ruin this thread by posting something stupid like "I'm Reading Your Thread". It became really really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "Pendergast!" by Lawrence J Larsen and Nancy J Hulston. Written in 1997, it chronicles the life as well as the rise and fall of Tom Pendergast. In the 1920's and 30's, he was the undisputed boss of Kansas City. Nothing moved or happened in that city without his approval. He was responsible for the rise of Harry S Truman as well.

Pendergast was a contradiction in many terms. he was a family man but also contracted syphilis from a prostitute. He looked out for the downtrodden by getting them jobs and food and then skimmed money off the side (on public works projects) for his own use.

And last but not least, he was a life-long Democrat as well!

All in all, this is a good book and one I'd recommend strongly.

Well, what are you reading now?!


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bookclub; books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages
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To: MplsSteve

Been reading various Medieval mystery series by authors such as Michael Jecks, Susannah Gregory, and Maureen Ash. Just finished reading “Lord of the Silent” which is Book 13 in the Amelia Peabody mystery series by Elizabeth Peters. I’ve also been reading the “Charlie Moon” mystery series by James D. Doss. I’m presently reading “The Sword of the Templars” by Paul Christopher. I’ve also read all of the Pendergast series by Lincoln Child and Doug Preston, along with several of their individual novels. I just pre-ordered their new novel titled: “Gideon’s Sword.” It’s the first book in their new “Gideon Crew” series.


181 posted on 10/06/2010 8:10:20 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Salamander; colorado tanker

I’ve got “Okinawa” about half done. I’m 100 pages or so into “Gorgon” which is a pop book about paleontology. I finished the Lincoln bio. Somewhere I’ve got a copy of “Bones” about 1/3 done, but A) I don’t know where it us under this pile of junk, and B) I’m pretty heartily sick of the author’s attention-whore (and man-bashing) writing style. I’m reading about three or four others, but off the top of my head, I can’t remember what they are. [blush] Maybe I’ll check the old threads...


182 posted on 10/06/2010 8:18:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: MplsSteve
The Sacred Willow by Duong Van Mai Elliot
183 posted on 10/06/2010 8:18:50 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di tray hoi den La Vang)
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To: MplsSteve

I just finished “Washington’s General,” a bio of Nathanael Greene who was Washington’s #2 for the South in the last year of the War of Independence.


184 posted on 10/06/2010 8:23:32 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Radix

He was lion about it.


185 posted on 10/06/2010 8:24:19 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: MplsSteve

I read lots of books at once, and right now, I’m reading:

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Three New Deals - Wolfgang Schivelbush

The Jewish gospels in the New Testament

And every October, in the spirit of Halloween, I re-read classic horror novels. This year, it’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Howard’s Solomon Kane stories, and, as always, Stoker’s classic, Dracula.


186 posted on 10/06/2010 8:28:46 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: SunkenCiv; Salamander
I've got Lindsay Davis ancient Rome murder mysteries going when I get tired of Mack's very opinionated hard core history and want something lighter.

I've got Reagan's Diaries going too. God I miss his leadership and clarity.

187 posted on 10/06/2010 8:54:56 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: MplsSteve

just finished “Left to Tell” by Immaculee Ibiligiza, a Rwandan genocide survivor.
currently reading:
1. an anthology of Don Camillo stories, about a priest and a communist in a little town in 1950s Italy.
2. “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian” with my kids.

Looking forward to:
The next book in the series that started with “Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go”. (Funny fantasy book about kids going through levels of “heck”, an age-appropriate experience of Hell. It has literary and theological allusions and bad puns. I’m hooked.)


188 posted on 10/06/2010 8:56:09 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21

A court opinion regarding EMS services.


189 posted on 10/06/2010 9:17:42 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: MplsSteve

I’m reading one of Sharon Kay Penman’s numerous novels about the 13th century. The name escapes me at the moment, and it’s on my Ipad. Eleanor of Aquitaine is a leading character. In this book, she just turned 50 and is feeling her age! (just like me!)


190 posted on 10/06/2010 9:22:44 PM PDT by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than four years now-- But I think about it every day.)
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To: marron
Recently read Madame Bovary on Readprint.com
191 posted on 10/06/2010 9:25:38 PM PDT by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than four years now-- But I think about it every day.)
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To: MplsSteve
Just started “ An intimate history of humanity “ by Theodore Zeldin and just finished “ Deliver us from evil “ by Baldacci.

I miss the days of being able to roam a book store and purchase any amount of books I wanted.

192 posted on 10/06/2010 9:47:32 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Sloane_Ranger
My dad gave me his copy of Baldacci’s “ Deliver us from evil “, the first Baldacci I have read. Great read, enjoyed it very much.
193 posted on 10/06/2010 9:52:15 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Panzerlied

““Frontier Regulars” by Robert M. Utley. I just visited Montana and Wyoming and wanted to learn more about the post-Civil War Indian Wars. Appears so far to be an even handed account of that period in our history.”

You will find that many of the books by Terry C. Johnston cover the Indian Wars.

He wrote 31 books about the West.


194 posted on 10/06/2010 10:00:47 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: davius

Really heartbreaking Miss Chang died by her own hand. Such a waste.


195 posted on 10/06/2010 10:08:13 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: MplsSteve

Wired for Joy by Laurel Mellin

How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons by Albert Ellis


196 posted on 10/06/2010 10:36:28 PM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: MplsSteve
Serious book: Crimes Against Liberty, David Limbaugh.

"Fun" book: Rereading Stephen King's It.

197 posted on 10/06/2010 10:38:12 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Postcatastrophe Economy

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao


198 posted on 10/06/2010 10:40:18 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: Radix

Have you ever read Neal Stephenson’s very first book “The Big U”?

He wrote it back in 1984, It’s quite unlike any of his subsequent works.

I still have the copy I bought way back in 1984.


199 posted on 10/07/2010 2:12:20 AM PDT by MplsSteve (http://patandersonforauditor.com/)
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To: cajungirl
Re: Martin Amis

I just read Night Train and now finishing London Fields.

I really enjoyed Night Train.

200 posted on 10/07/2010 4:16:39 AM PDT by cerberus
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