What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey of Freeper Reading Habits

9/27/07

[MplsSteve]

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

It can be anything...a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!

DO NOT answer by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It stopped being funny a long time ago.

Here's what I'm reading. I'm just about finished with "Street Without Joy" by Bernard Fall. It's about France's war in Vietnam from 1946-1954. Very interesting and tragic.

So, tell me. What are you reading now?

[VORTAC]

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Master Mariner: Darken Ship by Nicholas Monsarrat

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers by Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt

Latest releases of:

• Business Week
• Communications of the ACM
• interactions (ACM SIGCHI)
• AOPA Pilot

[steveyp]

“Yes, You Can Time the Market” by Ben Stein and Phil Demuth.

[urtax$@work]

Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe

by Diana Souhami

Writer was a little crass in dropping the F & S bombs several times. The several instances were not conversational quotes, but of bodily activities. Thought of the writer as too boorish and unrefined to practice the craft in such manner.

[bert]

I just finished rereading the Moon is A Harsh Mistress in honor of Robert Heinlein’s 100 year.

I visited the Canadian Rockies earlier in the year and at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta I learned of a book by Stephen J Gould...... Wonderful life. It describes work on the Burgess Shale fossils. I’m about finished .

I picked up Tacitus agin last week. He’s makes for good sleeping after a half hour or so.

[DryFly]

He nearly died. Several in his party did.

[DryFly]

He nearly died. Several in his party did.

[Eepsy]

I read “Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling” last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. I did end up having to run out to HalfPriceBooks at 8 o’clock at night to get a Sistine Chapel art book for reference, but what can you do?

[Big Red Clay]

I picked up “Consent to Kill” from the discount rack at Borders about a month ago when I was in on my monthly book buying binge. It was so good that when I finished it a few days later, I went back and bought all the rest (except for Memorial Day) in paperback and have been reading them pretty much non stop in my free time. My father in law is staying at my house recuperating from knee replacement surgery. He is picking them up as soon as I am done.

I sure wish they would make movies of these books but from what I hear that is not going to happen. I heard Flynn on a talk show about a year and a half ago. He said that his agent set up meetings with some Hollyweird producers about doing a film of “Memorial Day”. He said that he got no positive response from any of the producers and that one went so far as to tell him that he liked the book but would never make it into a movie because it was too “pro Bush”. Another reminder why I dont go to many movies any more.

[what's up]

Next I will read "Brunelleschi's Dome" by the same author and "Rise and Fall of the Medicis" by Christopher Hibbert.

We're gearing up for a trip to Italy in the not-so-distant-future!

[grame]

Walking from East to West by Ravi Zacharias

[A knight without armor]

Thanks! I saved that recipe. I had no idea how to do it. I would definitely make the veal stock in advance. It would be convenient for me to make the stock on Thursday afternoon and do the ribs on the weekend. Interesting about the egg shell, isn’t it? By the way I’ve heard people say they don’t use veal because it is mean to baby cows but I learned that those veal calves are the result of the milking industry. The milk cows have to have milk and their calves are then veal. So if anybody consumes milk they are propping up the veal factories, too. Cheers!

[The Right Stuff]

Just went to Italy this summer - it was fabulous. Expensive, but really wonderful.

I picked up a copy of the “Agony and the Ecstasy”. So far, it is pretty good.

[what's up]

I'm glad you had a great time.

If you don't mind my asking, where did you go and for how long? Planning my itinerary now...

[STONEWALLS]

It’s very engrossing....actually I heard about the book from a positive report about the movie....seems it showed at the Cannes film festival and was very well received....that got me interested in Cormac McCarthy so I headed to the library....hope you like The Road....my wife was so moved by it she cried at the end....always nice talking to a fellow McCarthy reader.

[rhema]

The Cost of Discipleship -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Reagan Diaries

Power to the People -- Laura Ingraham

[gigster]

Blinds Mans Bluff is a great book.
I just started reading “The Czar”s Germans”.

[ChocChipCookie]

Just finished Lone Survivor. WOWWW!!! I can’t say enough good things about that book. I’m reading a bit of Home Grown Kids, a homeschooling book, and then will start Ghost Soldiers.

[SShultz460]

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

[silverkor]

Just finished Night Fall by Nelson Demille, Currently reading Crisis by Robin Cook, Power to the People by Laura Ingraham and The Choice by Nickolas Sparks

[billmor]

Currently re-reading “One L” by Scott Turow, 1977, Warner Books About the author’s years at Harvard Law School..enjoy Turow’s writing- very clear and precise...But have not read any of his other books. Also reading “Piercing the Reich”,by Joseph Persico, 1979,Ballantine Books. About how
American agents penetrated Nazi Germany during WW II.

Just finished reading :Therese Neumann” by Tan Books, about the German Stigmatic, and prior to that “Wife, Mother and Mystic”, about the life of St. Anna Maria Taigi, who has been compared to Padre Pio for her many miraculous cures and gifts, also called one of the greatest saints in history. She was a contemporary of Napoleon.