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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry
1/08/08 | MplsSteve

Posted on 01/08/2008 7:59:25 AM PST by MplsSteve

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To: MplsSteve

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.


21 posted on 01/08/2008 8:08:14 AM PST by faloi
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I typically have 3 or 4 books being read at the same time; here's what's on the night stand right now: Mary M Luke's Gloriana . Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. The Naked Heart by Peter Gay. And Werner Jaeger's Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture.
22 posted on 01/08/2008 8:08:26 AM PST by Verloona Ti
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To: dawn53

And it’s been a VERY long time indeed since I took instructions from anonymous posters on a web forum! ;-)


23 posted on 01/08/2008 8:08:39 AM PST by Philistone (If someone tells you it's for the children, he believes that YOU are a child.)
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To: MplsSteve

Ptolemy’s Almagest


24 posted on 01/08/2008 8:09:06 AM PST by vikingd00d
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Scorpion Down by Ed Offley

I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

25 posted on 01/08/2008 8:09:29 AM PST by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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To: MplsSteve

The unedited version of Stranger in a Strange Land


26 posted on 01/08/2008 8:09:47 AM PST by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: MplsSteve

I’m going to Barnes & Noble this week with my gift cards and I’m picking up Jonah Goldberg’s new book “Liberal Fascism”


27 posted on 01/08/2008 8:10:21 AM PST by NeoCaveman (She's Ed Muskie in a pantsuit - Mike Murphy on Missus Clinton)
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To: MplsSteve

Confessions - St. Augustine


28 posted on 01/08/2008 8:11:01 AM PST by joebuck
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To: MplsSteve

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.


29 posted on 01/08/2008 8:11:11 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom by Cahan

Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe by Stanley Hauerwas


30 posted on 01/08/2008 8:11:17 AM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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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.


31 posted on 01/08/2008 8:11:34 AM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Verloona Ti

Werner Jaeger’s Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture.”

Recommend or not?


32 posted on 01/08/2008 8:13:18 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph J. Ellis

I'm just starting this, but the premise is interesting.

33 posted on 01/08/2008 8:13:20 AM PST by Lou L
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To: vikingd00d

Ptolemy’s Almagest”

Do you have to be an expert to read this?


34 posted on 01/08/2008 8:14:48 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: MplsSteve
I just finished To Set the Record Straight and am now half way through My Grandfather's Son.
35 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:07 AM PST by stayathomemom
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Cesar Millan’s “Be The Pack Leader”


36 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:21 AM PST by constant
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To: MplsSteve
Empire, by Orson Scott Card.
37 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:25 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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To: Poser

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!


38 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:30 AM PST by catman67
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To: joebuck

Confessions - St. Augustine”

Take your time. Don’t rush it. Savor it. Could be life-changing.


39 posted on 01/08/2008 8:15:56 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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BTW, just finished “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors”.

Great book!

40 posted on 01/08/2008 8:16:41 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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