What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey

10/03/11

[MplsSteve]

Hi everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" survey.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the 'Net. I like to get a feel as to what everyone is reading right now.

It can be anything - a technical journal, a NY Times best seller, a class work of fiction, a trashy pulp novel. In short, it can be anything.

Please do not respond to this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread" - or any variation thereof. It became really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the making of a secret American Empire" by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman. It's part history, part biography and part expose of the Boswell family of Central California, a mega-farming corporation in the Central Valley. It's fascinating reading.

Well, what are YOU reading right now?

[Sawdring]

I’m 91% done with Anna Karenina. It has taken me forever to read this book. I read and enjoyed “A Canticle for Leibowitz” this Summer.

[Archer24]

Just finished “Unbroken”, Hillenbrand.

Starting “The Fifth Woman”, Mankell

Recommend: Benedict Arnold’s Navy - if you want a look at what our forefathers went through to secure this great nation.

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Just finished Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: The Pat Tillman Story, a rather uninteresting telling of a terribly interesting story that should embarrass the military brass involved to no end. Just started Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. No one can write a sentence like Mr. Hardycould write them. Next up is The Bible Jesus Knew by Phillip Yancey.

[Vinylly]

Weeelll...I'm Reading ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus. I just finished ‘The Trial’ by Franz Kafka. Not a good idea to read both of these together, you could get very depressed. As The Gipper said; ‘Government isn't the solution, Government is the problem’ sure holds true in these novels and is certainly true today. I think I'll reread Kafka's ‘The Castle’ next, no, maybe not, I'll really get depressed then.

[MplsSteve]

I read Beevor’s “Stalingrad” a few years ago. I enjoyed it.

For both sides, I can’t even imagine how horrifying the entire siege must have been - the hunger, the pain, the cold, etc.

[CurlyBill]

Just read "In 50 Years We'll all be Chicks" by Adam Corolla... This is must read for all FReepers!!


Now reading "Demonic" by Coulter ... good read!!

[Squeeky]

OH, I am reading Demonic, too!!! Plus H C Lea’s Materials Toward A History of Witchcraft, which is three books and very hard to go through. Plus, I am reading “How To Play Guitar” books.

[Billthedrill]

I can’t even imagine how horrifying the entire siege must have been...

A Bump To the Top and a complete agreement. I get the same feeling reading Civil War literature - there you are with a muzzle-loader and a bayonet and you're going to charge a prepared position with cannon. And by God they did. And a wound cost you a limb and sometimes you were luckier to die on the spot. We are heirs to that courage and if we are honest, humble and grateful that we are not put to that test.

[truth_seeker]

The Footprints of God

by Greg Iles

[SunkenCiv]

GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach	join list or digest view topics view or post blog bookmark post a topic subscribe
Thanks MplsSteve. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Bernard Marx]

I’m just finishing Cheney’s book up. He definitely evens some scores, especially with Colin Powell and Condi —even Bush on the Libby non-pardon and a few other bad judgments. I’m disappointed he let Plame and her phony baloney husband off so easy. On the whole it’s a fascinating story of a great American. Too bad his cardiac condition kept him from the Presidency. The world would be a better and different place if he’d been No. 1.

[djf]

Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field
Gravity and Electromagnetism Redefined
John Brandenburg, Ph.D.

I am also reviewing David Albert’s Quantum Mechanics and Experience that I read quite a few years back but need a second look.

[Squantos]

Say Goodbye

This because I’m listed in the acknowledgements. And it’s a damn good read as well from a freeper author.

http://www.robertcapko.com/

And Professor Steven L. Goldman’s 3 volumes of Science in the 20th Century.

http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=1220

These are on my desk at work and home and in my kindle reader when traveling.

[Revolting cat!]

I'm surprised you didn't list this smashing bestseller!

[spyone]

A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, by Anthony Powell. Brilliant.

Hunting Eichmann, by Neal Bascomb. Very good.

[spyone]

A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, by Anthony Powell. Brilliant.

Hunting Eichmann, by Neal Bascomb. Very good.

[martin_fierro]

On the reading list for next week.

[ApplegateRanch]

Silverberg's Sorcerers of Majipoor

Waiting for a couple of Terry Pratchett's latest to come out in paperback.

Finally got around to Twain's The Awful German Language.

[ApplegateRanch]

Show some class! This is a family friendly site; instead of cheap and sordid, try something with an international sordidness flare!

[aruanan]

Ender’s Shadow was really good. Somewhere I have a signed copy of that.