Posted on 12/29/2006 8:17:43 AM PST by MplsSteve
I'm reading "The Dogs Who Found Me" by Ken Foster. It's about his experiences with rescue. I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
I just finished "Turning Angel" by Greg Iles. Fantastic.
Young Werther. (This won't take long.)
I guess Santa is a pretty conservative guy giving that book to so many people.
"Carnage and Culture" by Victor Davis Hanson
"Painting the Impressionist Landscape" Lois Griffel
"American Alone" is next.
currenty--
The Anti Chomsky Reader (Collier and Horowitz; excellent)
A Theory of Justice (John Rawls; dullsville, but a lot of people find his ideas persuasive so I slog on)
recently finished--
Everyman Revived (about the philosophy of Michael Polanyi; important, useful stuff, and largely unknown; the gist is that discovering new truths is an art, not a process, which has huge implications for science, politics, and other areas)
Free To Choose (Friedman of course)
"The Treasure of Khan" by Clive Cussler, featuring America's best hero, Dirk Pitt.
Also, "The Emperor's Sea Eagle" by 90-year-old Japanese former-fighter-pilot Zenji Abe. My son gave this to me for Christmas, and got Mr Abe to autograph it this past December 7th at the Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor.
I can only read a few pages of it at a time. Not that it's a difficult read, it is just so infuriating to see what "common wisdom" believes about who is and isn't charitable and what the facts really are.
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Sutterfield.
Excellent book. I couldn't put it down and read it in one day this week.
Just finished Andrew Jackson and the Bank War by Robert Remini.
Patton: A Genius for War
Carlo D'Este
Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Ooh, I need to reread that!
Also been a few years since I last read his space trilogy and The Great Divorce.
Not as good as the first in the series "Odd Thomas", but a nice rainy day read.
Dean Koontz is definitely much lighter reading than others I've seen posted here. Glad I answered first, or I would have been embarrassed to in the first place.
My favorite Dean Koontz was "fear Nothing" and Seize the Night".
You're giving it much more effort than I would! I once stopped reading a novel in within the first 3 pages, I can't even remember what it was - it was that boring.
It wraps up quickly after that, so I won't say anything
Absolutely love Koontz's writing.
Me too. I found Koontz after Stephen King turned into a NUT, I could not abide his writing after he got run over by that van. Dean Koontz has the same gift of characterization as King, but Koontz's sense of the macabre is more sophisticated than King's.
Best reads of the year:
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Privilege by Ross Douthat, a memoir of his Harvard student years 1998-2002.
Honor Harrington on a PDA! Oh Yeah! Nearing then end (At All Costs) of a re-read, all on the PDA. Gotta love Baen Books!
"...let's be about it."
Intensity
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Dragon Tears
Phantoms
Mr. Murder
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