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What Are You Reading? - My Quarterly Survey
3/29/11
| MplsSteve
Posted on 03/29/2011 9:52:18 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Artemis Webb
I think you’re a little cynical. Fiction may out-sell non-fiction, but this is FR. Folks here are probably heavy duty readers, at least most of us, and seriously minded, except Laz.
Why expect FR demographics to mirror the demographics of the nation at large?
With the exception of daily Bible reading, which I never even list because I don’t much think it’s what the thread is about, I read almost exclusively fiction. Which is all I ever list.
But I believe the FReepers who post the historical and political stuff. I doubt they are all conspiring to post such things.
For all the FR fiction readers out there I’d like to mention I’ve read a few Oleg Steinhauers lately, Cold War behind the Iron Curtain stuff, and really enjoyed most of it.
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posted on
03/29/2011 10:57:41 AM PDT
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: MplsSteve
‘Decision Points’, GW Bush.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:00:08 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
To: DryFly
Just started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the story of a black woman who, unbeknownst to her and her family, donated cervical cancer cells to science shortly before her death. From that small sample, scientists around the world cultured so many tissue samples for use in research that if you could pile all of the "HeLa" cells ever grown onto a scale, theyd weigh more than 50 million metric tons more than 100 Empire State Buildings. Fascinating stuff. I finished that about a month ago. Fascinating indeed, esp. with a sib in the medical research field.
To: Artemis Webb
Im waiting for the first liar to come on here and say, Im reading The Federalist Papers. LOL! Well, I'm not reading them anymore, at least not for awhile. That project took fourteen months.
I am reading Democracy In America for the next FR Book Club. I do believe it's the first time all the way through it.
To: MplsSteve
Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles.
It is an interesting take on a possible next path for our country.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:02:10 AM PDT
by
A Texan
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: MplsSteve
I'm reading Atlas Shrugged (for the third time) as the movie is coming out soon and I want to be fresh up on the book to compare it with the movie.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:02:35 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(R. Emmett Tyrrell: Liberalism is dead. What we see now is "soft Nazis-ism".)
To: MplsSteve
I have been reading, on the web, an Interview with Fletcher Prouty. He is one of the people who helped to set up the C.I.A. after WW11. Very interesting! (see link)
An Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:02:59 AM PDT
by
oldtimer2
(This was not an election on November 2. This was a restraining order.)
To: Durus; Anoreth
Thanks! I’m number 3 on the Mecklenburg library wait-list. Anoreth will have to buy one, I’m afraid.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:05:04 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
To: MplsSteve
The Great Tradition: classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being, edited by Richard Gamble... specifically reading from this book Plutarch’s “from ‘On Bring up a Boy.’”
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:07:11 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: MplsSteve
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:07:23 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: nina0113
Our library never got it. I had read some of the content online, but the whole thing was just overwhelming. And it can’t have gotten any better there over the last 15 years.
It’s not like “Midsomer Murders” at all!
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:07:59 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
To: MplsSteve
Letters on England - Voltaire
The Bible as History - Werner Keller
Polar Star - Martin Cruz Smith
To: MplsSteve
Catching Fire — Suzanne Collins
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:10:31 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: fredhead
I ordered TRUE GRIT for my daughters to read.
I'm currently up to page 170 in BONHOEFFER: PASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY by Eric Metaxas and page 139 in WAR by Robert Greene.
Already I can recommend the Metaxas’ Bonhoeffer book. The author did his research and writes well too.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:15:40 AM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: MplsSteve
“The Triathlete’s Training Bible” by Joe Friel - to support my midlife crisis.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:16:03 AM PDT
by
PrivateIdaho
("... like a wild potato.")
To: Tax-chick
Its not like Midsomer Murders at all! My wife and I love that television series. I usually get her a set of the DVDs each time a present is due, then we get to spend a few hours watching them together. Don't tell her English villages aren't really like that, I'm fairly sure she plans on retiring to Badger's Drift.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:16:03 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Tax-chick
If you're looking for more British depression, there's The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens. I picked up a copy at Goodwill. I think the original owner must have died; there was a (personal) library's-worth of historical and political non-fiction, and another customer and I were pawing through them greedily. He was scooping up the British ones, and I was taking the Mideastern, but he did cede me that one on request.
To: MplsSteve
"Don't send me no letter 'cause I can't read" -- Fats Domino.
To: MplsSteve
“The Lost Boys” on my MP3 player for when I walk the dog
“Absolute Zero” in paperback (I’m not real impressed with this book, it’s definitely a man’s book, but it’s not bad enough to pitch)
“The Tourist,” by Olen Steinhauer. If you’ve never read Olen Steinhauer, I highly recommend him, brilliant writer.
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:21:18 AM PDT
by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: MplsSteve
Reading the Bolo series started by Keith Laumer and taken over by various authors after his death.
Includes
The complete Bolo By Keith Laumer
The Honor Of The Regiment
The Unconquerable
The Triumphant
Last Stand
Old Guard
Cold Steel
Bolo Brigade
Bo;o Rising
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posted on
03/29/2011 11:23:37 AM PDT
by
jdietz
(God is great, beer is good and people are crazy, (which is why guns are necessary))
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