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What Are You Reading Now?
6/13/18

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?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: belongsinchat; bookclub; books; fiction; literature; nonfiction; notnews; reading; vanity
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1 posted on 06/13/2018 11:56:53 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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“The Rifle in America” by Philip Sharpe


2 posted on 06/13/2018 11:58:21 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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You asked so I will answer:

Michael Salla’s “Antarctica’s Hidden History”. :-)


3 posted on 06/13/2018 12:00:27 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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The Knowledge by Martha Grimes, and, listing to The Khufra Run by Jack Higgins.


4 posted on 06/13/2018 12:00:45 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow.
5 posted on 06/13/2018 12:01:14 PM PDT by Publius
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Greek Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament.

Just finished the Atlantis Code.

Attempting to write a book.

6 posted on 06/13/2018 12:01:25 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MplsSteve

This thread.


7 posted on 06/13/2018 12:02:00 PM PDT by CodeToad
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Target : Italy : the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943 : the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy / by Roderick Bailey.

Death and dying in central Appalachia : changing attitudes and practices / James K. Crissman.

The book of resting places : a personal history of where we lay the dead / Thomas Mira y Lopez.

This kind of war : the classic Korean War history / T.R. Fehrenbach.

Fields of battle : Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the boys who went to war / Brian Curtis.

Invasion : the alternate history of the German invasion of England, July 1940 / by Kenneth Macksey.

Damn right it hurts! : a Virginia hillbilly becomes a World War II hero / Wade Gilley.

The right stuff / Tom Wolfe.


8 posted on 06/13/2018 12:02:44 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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What am I reading now? Answer What am I reading now?


9 posted on 06/13/2018 12:02:44 PM PDT by heights
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The Kennedy Curse

I found it rather interesting to learn how the Kennedys from the beginning (starting with Joe as ambassador to England) were manipulating the press. Nothing changes.


10 posted on 06/13/2018 12:03:54 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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Korea:The First War We Lost, Alexander Bevin, third read.


11 posted on 06/13/2018 12:04:00 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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P G Wodehouse’s “The Clicking of Cuthbert,” one of his collections of golf stories, which are hilarious.


12 posted on 06/13/2018 12:04:04 PM PDT by txrefugee
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I spend most of my free time reading on qanon.


13 posted on 06/13/2018 12:04:12 PM PDT by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
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Soldiers of the Sun by Susie Harries

“Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force.”


14 posted on 06/13/2018 12:04:33 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Camp of the Saints

enjoy

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDFs/Camp_of_the_Saints.pdf


15 posted on 06/13/2018 12:04:46 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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Just in time for Summer, I'm re-reading Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite Fourth Revision by Charles Farabee, Jr.

Looking forward to the fifth revision next year as three people have already fallen to their deaths in Yosemite this year and it's early June.

16 posted on 06/13/2018 12:06:17 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up by Leo Damore.

Pretty good account of what happened at Chappaquiddick.


17 posted on 06/13/2018 12:06:31 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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“Spinward Fringe” series by Randolph Lalonde.
“1637 Volga Rules” the latest in the 1632 series by Eric Flint.


18 posted on 06/13/2018 12:06:33 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath by Herbert Hoover (edited by George H. Nash)

Nash compiled it from Hoover's writings over the course of several decades, and it was eventually published in 2011. If this book is anything close to what I've heard, I think Hoover will go down as perhaps the smartest and most underrated U.S. president of all time.

19 posted on 06/13/2018 12:07:12 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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After moving a few trailer loads of someone else’s books and putting them upstairs in many, many, many trips, I have 0 desire to even touch a book.


20 posted on 06/13/2018 12:07:20 PM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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