Posted on 06/13/2018 11:56:53 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Years ago, I'd post a quarterly thread asking Freepers what they were reading now. I made mention of the fact that I thought Freepers had to have been some of the more well-read people on the 'Net. I have decided to resume that post.
What are you reading? It can be a best seller, a trashy pulp novel, a biography - heck even a technical journal. Just don't answer the post by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It lost its originality a really long long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading a classic biography from 1970. It's called "Huey Long" by T Harry Williams. It's a large and very well-documented bio about one of the more controversial figures in American politics. The author did extensive research and it shows in the book. I'd highly recommend it - and I'm only about 1/4 of the way thru it.
Well, what are you reading now?
Also, “CCNA Security 210-260 Official Cert Guide,” and “A Fantasía for Two Lutes” (fiction).
The bible and anything I can find on Neutron stars and Black Holes.
Andrew Gross wrote the same story with the same title
I thought it was fun. It tied together several of Asimov’s early spacer and robot novels and brought them all to a conclusion.............of sorts..................
Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America - Tony Horwitz
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise - Michael Grunwald
A Land Remembered - Patrick D. Smith. Just finished it for the third time. One of the best stories I’ve ever read.
It’s Lonesome Dove set in Cracker Florida with a generational theme similar to a James Mitchner novel. Would make a great movie.
Story of one of the most famous battles ever fought, about the victory of a small, despised, sick and hungry English army over an enemy that massively outnumbered it by six to one, the French in 1415 in northern France.
It is a tale of an archer fighting for the English and how this army of archers were able to defeat far superior French troops.
Excellent read.
The Stone Sky, third book in the Broken Earth series. Good stuff.
Will try this one. Thanks.
Last great one I read was Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh.
Volume 2 (of 4 volumes) of R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman. I’ve never read a complete biography of Lee before.
I’m in the middle of the Stieg Larsson trilogy, which starts with “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”
“Absent Superpower” by Peter Zeihan. His follow up to “Accidental Superpower”. Geography as the major determining factor in geopolitical world development.
The US will let the world go fend for itself as we enjoy energy independence. May be happening with Trump at the helm.
A history of the battle at Hastings.
Chosin Reservoir documentary. I cannot imagine what those men went through.
Castigo Cay by Matthew Bracken
This time on my Fire thanks for the free down load Travis McGee (since my brother borrowed my original copy and never returned it!
C.S. Lewis - “That Hideous Strength”
Learned how to get it on my Kindle as a MOBI file!
Never made it all the way through Churchill’s voluminous WW-II. I’ll have to get it and restart from the beginning. Just finished The River War by him a few months ago. He has an uncanny way to write history.
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