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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey
12/31/10 | MplsSteve

Posted on 12/31/2010 7:25:35 AM PST by MplsSteve

Hello everyone!

it's time for my quarterly "What Are You reading Now?" survey. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read of those of us out in cyberspace. As a result, I like to find out what you're reading.

It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY TImes bestseller, a trashy pulp novel, in short, it can be anything. Please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". It became very unfunny a long long time ago.

I'll start. I went to the library and picked up a copy of "Sam Walton, Made In America: My Story" by Sam Walton. I'm not the entreprenurial type myself and I'm only about 20% of the way thru the book - but I find it interesting how he built Wal-Mart to be such a powerhouse of a corporation. Some of the ideas he talks about can actually be put to use in almost any type of corporate environment.

Well, what are YOU reading now?


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41 posted on 12/31/2010 7:44:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: MplsSteve

Man’s Search for Meaning-Frankl
the longest day-cornelius ryan
bio of patton

finished Robin Olds autobio on my kindle...great book. Highly recommend it

I have about 20-25 other books in the queue right now....


42 posted on 12/31/2010 7:44:49 AM PST by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: MplsSteve

The color Of Lightning -— a true story about an African-american former slave in Texas who rescued his wife and children from the comanche. It’s fictionalized but based on fact. Amazing story.


43 posted on 12/31/2010 7:44:51 AM PST by squarebarb
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Just finished A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Understood about 2/3 of it even though it was “dumbed down” for the common folk. Just starting The Camel Club on CD by David Baldacci (I’ve read a couple of others of this series but never got around to reading the first one until now).


44 posted on 12/31/2010 7:44:58 AM PST by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished Clancy's Dead or Alive. A pretty good read.
45 posted on 12/31/2010 7:45:03 AM PST by firebrand
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To: MplsSteve
Trying to get through Anna Karenina.
46 posted on 12/31/2010 7:46:49 AM PST by TheMom (I wish mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood.)
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To: MplsSteve

“Hell’s Corner” by David Baldacci (one of my two favorite fiction writers). Next up is “What the Night Knows”, the newest from Dean Koontz (my other favorite.) Just finished “The Book Thief” and “Cutting for Stone”. No spies, evil CIA or FBI bosses or hero special forces soldiers. (Actually, a nice change of pace.)


47 posted on 12/31/2010 7:47:35 AM PST by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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“The Windup Girl,” by Paolo Bacigalupi.


48 posted on 12/31/2010 7:47:52 AM PST by pabianice
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To: MplsSteve
Civil War Curiosities, Webb Garrison
The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee
Good Eats I II, Alton Brown
49 posted on 12/31/2010 7:47:52 AM PST by ladyvet
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To: Puppage

yeah, i still love going to the bookstore, too...but this kindle thing.....best thing since sliced bread...

my current printed library is about 950 volumes...and my wife said we are running out of room to store them all...so the kindle makes alot of sense at this point of my reading addiction.

I suspect my complete library, printed and electronic, will exceed 1500 by the end of the year. the free stuff for the kindle is incredible! I love this thing... :)


50 posted on 12/31/2010 7:50:33 AM PST by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: firebrand

I’m 150 pages into “Dead or Alive”


51 posted on 12/31/2010 7:51:40 AM PST by wordsofearnest (Evan Bayh gave Indiana a twofer.)
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To: MplsSteve
Re-reading The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith.
52 posted on 12/31/2010 7:53:59 AM PST by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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Over the past week, via hardcover books, not a kindle fan:

Surface Details by Iain M. Banks

Start Up Nation-The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer

The Israel Test by George Gilder

Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions by Dan Ariely

The Drunkard’s Walk How Randomness Rule our Life by Leonard Mlodinow

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

The Last Undercover by Bob Hamer

The Origins of Totalitariansim by Hannah Arndt


53 posted on 12/31/2010 7:57:31 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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I am reading the Elizabeth George mystrey’s. I’m totally obsessed with them... I’ve been ordering them three at a time used from Amazon, and become slightly unglued if I finish them all before the next shipment arrives.

What am I going to read when I’mdsone with them all?


54 posted on 12/31/2010 7:58:04 AM PST by sissyjane (Did you plug the hole yet Daddy????)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished:
Daniel Silva: Moscow Rules
Daniel Silva: Rembrandt Affair
Vince Flynn: American Assassin
Dinesh D’Souza: Roots of Obama’s Rage

Just started:
Phillip Lee Williams:The Flower Seeker
Bob Woodward: Obama’s Wars
Robert Spencer: Stealth Jihad
Cloud and Townsend: Safe People

So many books, so little time.


55 posted on 12/31/2010 8:00:39 AM PST by newheart (Please don't shoot at the thermonuclear weapons. --Vic Deakins)
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Thanks MplsSteve. I've been listening to Decision Points by George W. Bush (abridged CD audiobook version), and reading The Vikings: A History by Robert Ferguson, plus a half dozen more I'm not counting because, well, I'm not sure where they are right now. Probably lost in the car, or maybe within ten feet of here. [blush] And I'm probably forgetting some. I probably listed them in your previous quarterly thread.
56 posted on 12/31/2010 8:01:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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What am I going to read when I’m done with them all?

Speaking as one who has read all of her mysteries, it is the pits because she only publishes a Det. Lynley mystery every two years. There is one due out in 2011, around May.

57 posted on 12/31/2010 8:01:33 AM PST by daisyscarlett
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To: Onelifetogive

Do you like Cutting For Stone? It’s my bookgroup book for this month (January), and I haven’t even started it.


58 posted on 12/31/2010 8:01:53 AM PST by sissyjane (Did you plug the hole yet Daddy????)
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I know the feeling. Try Deborah Crombie.


59 posted on 12/31/2010 8:02:43 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished the 2 newest Reacher books.

You know they are a good read when I read a combined 850 pages in 16 hours!

When are they finally going to make Reacher movies??????

Cheers and Happy New Year,

knewshound


60 posted on 12/31/2010 8:03:00 AM PST by knews_hound (Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
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