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What Are You Reading Now? (My Quarterly Inquiry)
12/29/06 | MplsSteve

Posted on 12/29/2006 8:17:43 AM PST by MplsSteve

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

I like to do this to gauge what Freepers are reading. It can be anything...a best-seller, a literary classic, a trashy pulp novel, even a magazine, etc.

I usually get a good number of responses from those of you in the Freeper universe.

I'll start. Right now, I'm reading "Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden" by Douglas Cazaux Freeman. It's about the birth and growth of California's citrus industry.

Well, what are you reading now?!


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; fiction; magazines; nonfiction
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To: Lazamataz

John Lovitz - is that you? LOL!


21 posted on 12/29/2006 8:32:44 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (When music is banned, only the bands will have music.)
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To: Last Laugh

Any good?


22 posted on 12/29/2006 8:34:22 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: MplsSteve

America Alone, by Mark Steyn. It's a great read, a must read, actually. It's a chilling prediction for the future of the world, and I challenge anyone to point out where Steyn goes wrong.


23 posted on 12/29/2006 8:37:51 AM PST by Eva
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To: MplsSteve

"Next" - Michael Crichton

"Lisey's Story" - Stephen King is waiting in the wings.


24 posted on 12/29/2006 8:38:16 AM PST by day10 (Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: MplsSteve

Wireless Networking for Dummies
Weird Maryland
History of St. Mary's County, Maryland

Next on the list is the book I bought my mother for Christmas, Culture Warrior. She loves Bill.


25 posted on 12/29/2006 8:38:24 AM PST by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: MplsSteve

Currently, I am reading this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1759897/posts


26 posted on 12/29/2006 8:38:42 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: MplsSteve

Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay


27 posted on 12/29/2006 8:39:43 AM PST by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished "Hannibal Rising" by Thomas Harris.


28 posted on 12/29/2006 8:39:47 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Spork weasels ain't afraid of nuthin' but running out of sardines.)
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To: MplsSteve
When I'm home I'm reading Will Beall's L.A. Rex. Will is my nephew and this is his first novel. He's an LAPD cop, now working homicide, but he spent 10 years on the gang and drug task force in South Central and those streets and that world are where his novel is set. It got picked as one of the top ten fall books by GQ and has already been optioned for a movie. Pretty gritty and rough. It's gotten great praise, including a great jacket blurb from the guy who wrote the Spencer for Hire books.

When I'm out and about I have David Weber's Honor Harrington series on my PDA as ebooks and I'm re-reading them in anticipation of the new one due next year. I just finished the 3rd one and am well into the 4th.

29 posted on 12/29/2006 8:41:50 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: MplsSteve

I am currently reading "Don't Shoot, it's Only Me!"

It's an autobiography of the career of Bob Hope. He gives it a subtitle, 'A History of Comedy in the Twentieth Century'.


30 posted on 12/29/2006 8:42:59 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: Mad Dawg
"Till We Have Faces"

Now that there is a good book.

One of the very best I've ever read.

31 posted on 12/29/2006 8:43:29 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: MplsSteve

"The Shooting Party", Anton Chekhov.


32 posted on 12/29/2006 8:43:46 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Last Laugh

The monks are in the SUVs heading over to the school.

Absolutely love Koontz's writing.


33 posted on 12/29/2006 8:43:49 AM PST by EggsAckley
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To: MplsSteve

Judge & Jury by James Patterson

Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel

This one is non-fiction, written by a woman who was a Christian in Lebanon during their civil war. Recommended to me by a USMC Major.


34 posted on 12/29/2006 8:44:13 AM PST by trimom
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To: cardinal4
You'd probably like "In Stalin's Secret Service" by W.G. Krivitsky. It's subtitled: "Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect." It's another look into the Communist penetration of our government during the FDR administration. It's available from used booksellers or libraries.

I read it in stupefied disbelief. Walter Krivitsky was assassinated by Soviet agents in a Wshington D.C. hotel room in 1941. Since 1918 or so he had been chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe. While he did testify before the House Unamerican Activities Committee, the FBI didn't even bother to interview him! It's a fascinating look into Stalin's atrocities by a man who was an eyewitness and participant. It's also a blood-curdling account of the state of American denial about the true nature of Soviet Communism.

35 posted on 12/29/2006 8:51:26 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: NeoCaveman

I'm reading America Alone as well. It is great.


36 posted on 12/29/2006 8:52:42 AM PST by Mr. Blonde (Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.)
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To: mkjessup

Great book. I read it a few years ago, very fascinating man.


37 posted on 12/29/2006 8:53:12 AM PST by Mr. Blonde (Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.)
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To: NeoCaveman; Mr. Blonde

Me too!


38 posted on 12/29/2006 8:56:15 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MplsSteve

Space Propulsion Analysis and Design
Space Mission Analysis and Design
Mapping Mars
The Case for Mars

Jeez what engineering students do in their time off eh?


39 posted on 12/29/2006 8:56:53 AM PST by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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To: MplsSteve

Wire Antennas For Radio Amateurs by W6SAI and W2LX


40 posted on 12/29/2006 8:57:51 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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