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What Are You Reading Now?
1/11/06 | Me

Posted on 01/11/2006 12:04:15 PM PST by MplsSteve

I'm gonna start doing this thread on a quarterly basis.

The last time I did it, I got some very interesting answers from Freepers.

What are you reading? It can be anything. A classic. A technical journal. A trashy pulp novel. Soldier of Fortune magazine. Anything.

I'll start. I'm reading: "The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's race for Governor of California and the birth of media politics".

So far, it's not a bad read. But what did you expect? I'm a Pol Sci major.

Well, what are you reading?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; literature
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To: birbear

You're going to love "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. It's a great read!


21 posted on 01/11/2006 12:34:45 PM PST by alwaysconservative (If a liberal cries out in the forest, is he still wrong?)
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To: MplsSteve
"Planters". "Honey Roasted Peanuts". "Net Weight 8 oz"...
Oh, you meant what book am I reading. Sorry:

"Things Worth Fighting for: Collected Writings" -- by Michael Kelly.

22 posted on 01/11/2006 12:35:02 PM PST by andy58-in-nh
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To: MplsSteve

"One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer" - Nathaniel Fick

Re-reading "1776"


23 posted on 01/11/2006 12:36:28 PM PST by ToddBush (http://www.sliceofthepie.net)
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To: MplsSteve

"Who Moved My Cheese"

(actually I'm finished. it takes about 45 minutes to read)

I'd recommend it.

Change is good, change is inevitable, change is coming soon.


24 posted on 01/11/2006 12:36:58 PM PST by WhiteGuy (Vote for gridlock)
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To: MplsSteve

My copy of Hewitt's book had some kind of publishing error, one of the parts was reprinted twice, so I'm not sure what I missed.


25 posted on 01/11/2006 12:37:06 PM PST by alwaysconservative (If a liberal cries out in the forest, is he still wrong?)
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To: MplsSteve

Amazing story with some obvious similarities to the situation we're in now.

26 posted on 01/11/2006 12:37:10 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: MplsSteve

Traditional Bowyers Bible Vol. 1


27 posted on 01/11/2006 12:39:17 PM PST by Minnesoootan
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To: MplsSteve
Great topic. If you create a ping list, please add me.

A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin

A Bird Without Wings - Louis De Bernieres



Killer Clown, The John Wayne Gacy Murders - Terry Sullivan

28 posted on 01/11/2006 12:42:06 PM PST by Millee (Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.)
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To: MplsSteve

"How to talk to a Liberal, if you must" by Ann Coulter

Re-reading "The Narnia Chronicles" (which I haven't read since I was a kid), after we saw the movie.

And just recently finished:
"A Breath of Snow and Ashes" by Diana Gabaldon, which is the satisfying conclusion of her "Outlander" series. They must be read in order, and this one ends just after the start of the Revolutionary War.
"The Rule of Four" which is like a cross between "The Name of the Rose" and "The Da Vinci Code"
Emily Giffin's marvelous books "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue" (again, read in order)


29 posted on 01/11/2006 12:44:18 PM PST by alwaysconservative (If a liberal cries out in the forest, is he still wrong?)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Have you read Anthony Beevor's "Stalingrad"?

It's on my list - but haven't gotten to it. I hear it's quite good.


30 posted on 01/11/2006 12:47:24 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: The_Victor

Steinbeck's East of Eden. Again.


31 posted on 01/11/2006 12:48:38 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: MplsSteve

"Common Sense and Other Writings" by Tom Paine - received as a Christmas present. I just finished "A Mote In God's Eye" by Niven & Pournelle - outstanding!


32 posted on 01/11/2006 12:49:12 PM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: MplsSteve

see #31 - it was meant for you.


33 posted on 01/11/2006 12:49:52 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: MplsSteve

A Patriot's History of the United States!


34 posted on 01/11/2006 12:50:57 PM PST by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: MplsSteve

No - that and he also wrote a book on the Fall of Berlin. Wouldn't mind reading both books. Having said that, I was more drawn to this book because of the subject rather than the author - I think Beevor does a good job as he's pretty even-handed (pretty) and also it's not a purely military history, but includes political and social history as well which I think is good.


35 posted on 01/11/2006 12:50:59 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: MplsSteve
"Les Miserables" and I just finished "Do as I say, not as I do" by Peter Schweizer.

Reading "The Corner" at national review Online is a lot of fun right now during the Alito hearings. I can't watch the asses in the Senate, instead I get the condensed version from KJL and the group.

MoodyBlu

36 posted on 01/11/2006 12:51:09 PM PST by MoodyBlu
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To: alwaysconservative

Cool. My dad really enjoyed it. My mom didn't care for the footnotes. :)


37 posted on 01/11/2006 12:54:55 PM PST by birbear (Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
"Pilgrims Progress" - John Bunyan (I've been at this for months)

While I applaud your efforts at it, I have to say it's one of the most boring books I ever had to read. (I went to a Christian school and we studied that book for a whole year.)

If you make it through, let me know.
38 posted on 01/11/2006 12:57:05 PM PST by birbear (Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
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To: apackof2; Squantos

Hey!

I just finished Meriwether Lewis, by R. Dillon!

Are you sure you're not a typing dog posing as a human on the internet, too..??!!!

Before that I read "Roundup on the Double D," and the 1955 condensed versions of "The Roosevelts of Sagamore Hill," "No Time for Sergeants," "The Last Hunt," and an autobiography of socialite Elsa Maxwell.

I have now proceeded to re-read the Nosler Reloading Manual #2, from 1981. Page 75 has a lovely little mechanical drawing of the .221 Remington Fireball, which I'm sure you find very beautiful too.



39 posted on 01/11/2006 1:03:12 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." - G.K.Chesterton)
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To: birbear

Let's just say I've gotten some good night's sleep.....

I like the book, but it isn't keeping my interest.

I actually have the same problem with the historical Paine book, it's got a lot of information but I can't read it for too long at a time.

Crier's book I couldn't put down because I kept shouting at it.


40 posted on 01/11/2006 1:08:43 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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