Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" inquiry.
I'm always curious as to what Freepers are reading and what they're recommending to others.
It can be anything...a classic novel, a scientific journal, a magazine, a cheap pulp novel...anything.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "The Great Deluge: Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley.
This is a full account of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast. The book starts 48 hours before landfall and finishes one week after landfall. It a very good book.
Trust me, no one comes out of this looking good. Ray Nagin doesn't. FEMA doesn't, etc.
Well, what are YOU reading now?
Reagan: A Life in Letters. Neat book, good to get from a library too, because you don’t have to read the whole thing. You can pick and choose the topics you are interested in and just read the letters Reagan wrote on that topic.
Taste of home annual recipes.
The ultimate Southern living cookbook / compiled and edited by Julie Fisher Gunter ; foreword by Kaye Mabry Adams.
Nightwatch / Sergei Lukyanenko
Wife is reading:The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid / Bill Bryson.
Just finished: Definitely dead / Charlaine Harris.
The War Against the Weak - by Edwin R Black.
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Beck’s new book...An Inconvenient Book, also a Cesar Milan book on dog training.
Right now I’m reading “What are you reading right now?” on FreeRepublic...
Hope that helps...
Power vs. Force.
A World Lit Only By Fire, by William Manchester
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright; about Al-Queda and how 9-11 came to happen. Just finished The Kite Runner - I absolutely loved it and couldn’t put it down.
Adam Bede/George Elliot.
I got a new sony ereader and got 100 classics for free, the things you had to read in college and high school.
I love them/haven’t had such a good time in a long time.
Hardtack and Coffee
by John B. Billings
A classic, mostly lighthearted look at the details of a union soldier’s life in the Civil War, by a soldier.
I’ve found it quite entertaining and interesting.
Do not deface this thread with a smart-ass answer like "I'm Reading this Thread". It became very un-original a long time ago.
Next after that is "Hard Corps" - another first person account about a gang thug who joined the Marines and became a war hero. Then "The Real Animal House" by a guy who lived in the fraternity that inspired the movie. A fraternity buddy of mine sent me that, and said it was like a trip down memory lane.
I am reading Douglas Botting’s biography of Gerald Durrell and Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano mystery “The Scent of the Night.” While I watch TV, I am also dipping into and re-reading Wodehouse as a specific remedy for being exposed to so much political coverage.
I just got finished reading what there is so far of Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. And I can’t stop reading whatever books I can get based around Warhammer or Warhammer 40k. Yeah, my reading tends to be on the very light side. Life is serious enough for me most of the time that I don’t need to read about it too.
And it’s been a VERY long time indeed since I took instructions from anonymous posters on a web forum! ;-)
Ptolemy’s Almagest
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
The unedited version of Stranger in a Strange Land
I’m going to Barnes & Noble this week with my gift cards and I’m picking up Jonah Goldberg’s new book “Liberal Fascism”
Confessions - St. Augustine
Fellowship of the Ring (outloud to youngsters), Pride and Prejudice, Brothers K., various treatises related to hobbies and would-be hobbies. Just finished some Shakespearean tragedies. Some good, contemporary American poetry.
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom by Cahan
Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe by Stanley Hauerwas
Press and America, The: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media (Third Edition)
by Michael Emery (Author), Edwin Emery (Author), Nancy L. Roberts (Author)
This book continues my study of how the DriveBy Media evolved and became what it is today and how we can combat it. This is apparently a standard text used in J-schools.
Werner Jaeger’s Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture.”
Recommend or not?
I'm just starting this, but the premise is interesting.
Ptolemy’s Almagest”
Do you have to be an expert to read this?
Cesar Millan’s “Be The Pack Leader”
Can’t go wrong with Bob Heinlen. Try “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” if you haven’t read it already.
BTW, just finished “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”.
I highly recommend it!
Confessions - St. Augustine”
Take your time. Don’t rush it. Savor it. Could be life-changing.
Great book!
“For Many Shall Come in My Name” by Ray Yungen.
It reveals what the New Age false religion (occultism in disguise) is all about, and how it has infiltrated almost all aspects of our society, including school, business, and health care, as well as Christian churches! Meditation is the key to the door of the occult. No Christian should ever practice New-Age meditation! (That includes “centering prayer” and “contemplative spirituality” and “breath prayers” among other trendy and dangerous practices sneaking into the church today.)
“Mother, The Frank Zappa Story”
Reading my new book “The Believer’s Guide to Legal Issues”, which is the subject of this thread from yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1949562/posts
The book is actually on pre-order status, with national release set for April 1 - - - and it is literally ALL I’ve been reading, as I just finished taking care of the final edits from my publisher this past weekend!
For Tolkien-philes, this series is a must read. Beware though, it is scholarly in its approach, so some parts are quite cumbersome. But the depth and length of the material allows the reader to fall deeper into the world of Middle Earth and get "into the mind" of J.R.R.Tolkien.
I’m Reading this Thread.
OK, sorry, but I HAD to say it.
I finished Donald Trump’s Think Big and Kick Ass.
Bloviating, but readable.
Reagan Diaries
Next up: “Ike: An American Hero” by Michael Korda
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