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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: misterrob

With the exception of Mr. Murder, I have read your list as well! DEan Koontz can not write a bad novel!


61 posted on 12/29/2006 11:15:32 AM PST by Last Laugh (We the People are in charge, so let's act like it!)
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To: Last Laugh

No but I have gotten the feeling that I have read the same books a few times if you know what I mean.


62 posted on 12/29/2006 11:36:37 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: MplsSteve

series that i'm waiting for the rest of the books to come out:
pratchet's discworld
jordan's Wheel of Time
goodkinds Sword of Truth
martin's song of fire and ice
feist's krondor sagas


I also have one of the collections of Doyle's Holmes stories i'm (re)reading, and Ross' Unintended Consequences is my bathroom book.


63 posted on 12/29/2006 11:37:19 AM PST by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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To: MplsSteve

"Cry of the Halidon" by Robert Ludlum


64 posted on 12/29/2006 11:39:20 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: misterrob
No but I have gotten the feeling that I have read the same books a few times if you know what I mean.

LOL! Every author I've read, has led me down that rode. I believe they all have their basic story lines.

Like I said, Dean Koontz is a good rainy day read: simple escapism-type pleasure reading.

65 posted on 12/29/2006 11:41:29 AM PST by Last Laugh (We the People are in charge, so let's act like it!)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. Next in line are the Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard.


66 posted on 12/29/2006 1:30:06 PM PST by Pknicker (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Lazamataz

Toasted. Possible burnt if you don't pay attention.


67 posted on 12/29/2006 1:49:40 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished "One Nation Under Allah" and "Inshallah" both by Laura Mansfield, aka freeper StillProud2BeFree. Just started "Charlie Wilson's War" by George Crile.


68 posted on 12/29/2006 1:52:29 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: MplsSteve
Pynchon's Against the Day. Since I am stubborn and refuse to read reviews or jacket copy before I read the book itself, I'm just starting to figure out what he's doing in this book . . . maybe. Meanwhile enjoying the writing--matchless!
69 posted on 12/29/2006 1:58:26 PM PST by firebrand
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To: day10

I always liked Crichton and I almost picked up "Next" yesterday but I was so disappointed with "Timeline" and feeling that perhaps he'd "jumped the shark" I was hesitant.

A friend gave me “State of Fear” but I haven’t read it yet.

Let me know how you like “Next”.

I did buy “Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold because the story line seemed so compelling and different and another friend recommended it. I’m going to start reading it tonight.


70 posted on 12/29/2006 2:15:24 PM PST by Caramelgal (Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.)
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To: MplsSteve
Why Not Women : A Biblical Study of Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership by Loren Cunningham and David Joel Hamilton (Fantastic, fantastic book)


The Letters of John and Abigail Adams by Abigail Adams, Frank Shuffelton, and John Adams (Am thoroughly enjoying this; it makes the trying times of the American Revolution seem very present)


The World Crisis, 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill and Martin Gilbert

71 posted on 12/29/2006 2:23:46 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: EggsAckley; Last Laugh
Dean Koontz "Brother Odd"

Me too!

That's just odd, brother.

72 posted on 12/29/2006 2:24:54 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: MplsSteve

The Truth about Muhammad, by Robert Spencer.


73 posted on 12/29/2006 4:25:13 PM PST by kcar (o.o)
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To: MplsSteve

A translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Gorilla.


74 posted on 12/30/2006 2:36:03 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Barack Saddam Hussein Obama)
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To: Caramelgal

I'll try to remember to send you a review. I am enjoying it so far - it is similar to "State of Fear" (which I would highly recommend and deals with environmental science/global warming) in that it takes an issue, in this case rapid advances in genetics, and looks at the science, politics, and economics involved.

I recently finished 2 other books that I would recommend - both by an author named Harlan Coben: "Just One Look" and "Tell No One". He is not the best wordsmith I have ever read, but the books are fun and the plots he comes up with just grab you.


75 posted on 12/30/2006 10:09:50 AM PST by day10 (Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: NeoCaveman; martin_fierro
Looming Tower is a real page turner and has some stunning insight into OBL.

America Alone is next on my list, as soon as I can get to a Borders to redeem a gift card.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

76 posted on 12/31/2006 7:50:20 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: MplsSteve
I've just started this:

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith


77 posted on 01/01/2007 11:13:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Ahmedumbass and the mullahcracy is doomed. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GretchenM
That's just odd, brother.

Odd indeed! Odd Thomas is a very odd fellow.

78 posted on 01/02/2007 9:17:43 AM PST by Last Laugh (We the People are in charge, so let's act like it!)
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished Starship Troopers.

Getting ready to start The Alien Years, by Robert Silverberg.

79 posted on 01/02/2007 9:18:40 AM PST by GSWarrior
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