Posted on 09/27/2007 8:09:20 AM PDT by 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?
I have 5 or 6 books with a bookmark in them, but the one I want to finish is 1984. Yes, it’s my first time reading it and no, I never read it in high school, sadly.
Great book. Find the cow skull yet?
Fiction:
Gibraltar Earth - Michael McCollum
Gibraltar Sun - Michael McCollum
Non Fiction:
Ship Of Ghosts - The story of the USS Houston - James D. Hornfischer
Lambert - The Man In The Middle - Jim O’Brien
What a great book.
1. The Civil War, Volume II, Shelby Foote
2. The Deadly Brotherhood (The American Combat Soldier in World War II)
3. The Other Battle (German night fighters vs. the RAF)
4. Panzer Commander (The memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck).
I think my reading subjects may be falling into a pattern. :)
Stumbled across this. Not going to read it. Sorry I didn answer your question.
The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation is Reshaping American Politics (Paperback)
Russell Dalton uses a new set of national public opinion surveys to show how Americans are changing their views on what good citizenship means. It’s not about recreating the halcyon politics of a generation ago, but recognition that new patterns of citizenship call for new processes and new institutions that reflect the values of the contemporary American public. Trends in participation, tolerance, and policy priorities reflect a younger generation that is more engaged, more tolerant, and more supportive of social justice. <————
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
How come it took me 51 years to discover this great book?
Dan Brown’s “Deception Point” (very good read, BTW) and “Marker” by Robin Cook.
Great book!
“The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises” by John Paul II. It’s a short little book of 13 or 14 sermon’s/talks he gave on retreats in Poland in the early 1960’s to university students while he was a Bishop and before he was Pope. Very worthwhile. It’s interesting to see how consistent his thinking and focus was on many issues for thirty years. I’m not a Catholic but John Paul II was a man that knew God and these talks are straightforward and practical for a Christian.
The latest issue of American Handgunner.
“Why They Hate” by Brigitte Gabriel
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
What did the Soviets say about that little stamp?
Just trying to find out WHY the Clitoid Crime Family MURDERED these people.
Jeppesen Aviation Weather.
Technical references are much more interesting to me than fiction.
Ouch, I hate reading tech stuff anymore. I went through the pains of learning C#/ADO.Net stuff 4 years back so we could migrate our product forward.
My sympathies to you.
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