What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry

3/28/08

[MplsSteve]

OK everyone, it's time for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now" post.

I like to get a feel for what Freepers are reading these days. It can be anything...a best seller, a literary classic, a trashy pulp novel, a scientific journal, etc.

Do not demean this thread with posts like "I'm reading this Thread right now". It became un-funny a long time ago.

I'll start. I've just started "One Square Mile Of Hell: The Battle For Tarawa" by John Wukovitz.

Rather than a minute by minute account of the battle, it takes a more personalized view of the battle by interviewing a few combatants and the families of those who died in the battle. I wasn't sure I'd like this format at first - but am really starting to get into this book.

Well...what are YOU reading right now?

[Palmetto]

The Everlasting Man, GK Chesterton.

[Dinah Lord]

Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno

The New Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F Madden

Funding Evil by Rachel Ehrenfeld

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Free Republic...every morning, plus

“The Soprano State” by Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure.

[Thrownatbirth]

Climate Confusion by Roy Spencer.

He really sticks it to the Algore crowd.

[cogito3]

Regeneration, the third book in the Species Imperative series by Julie Czerneda. I am a sci-fi junkie, when I am not reading: Papers in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics etc

[garyhope]

You should be doing your morning pages RIGHT NOW and not hanging out on the Freep!!

[aft_lizard]

I was going to buy that yesterday but surprise surprise the Borders by ASU didnt have a copy readily available.

So instead I decided to get some SciFi novels. Bought the entire Academy series by Jack McDevitt, they sound interesting enough. Besides I need some light reading to counter the Book on Naturalists(historical readings that show the evolution of biology and ecology from Pliny to hippies like Rachel Carlson).

[Dunstan McShane]

Re-reading The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis. Next up: A Canticle for Leibowitz.

[wideawake]

Hydriotaphia by Sir Thomas Browne. It's a lengthy essay about atttitudes toward burial and mortality in the form of a commentary on the discovery of some Bronze Age burial urns.

Spy by David Wise. That's a book about FBI traitor Robert Hanssen.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman;
Rereading John Adams ...

[GOP_Party_Animal]

A Brief History of the Middle East: From Abraham to Arafat by Christopher Catherwood

Interesting to get a leftist view of Mohammed and his religion.

[Nervous Tick]

What are you reading right now?

Essential ActionScript 2.0
Essential ActionScript 3.0

Programming books... Don't rush out and buy them. I recommend waiting for the movie. ;-)

[garyhope]

“Spreading The LUV Around” by Elliot Spitzer.

[Joe 6-pack]

I just finished The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944.

Quite interesting, and I learned quite a bit even though I consider myself an avid WWII buff. Interesting info about William Colby's wartime activities...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

John Adams, by David McCullough

My latest Costco acquisition. Really good. But how come Adams' picture on the cover looks like Russell Crowe?

[Joe 6-pack]

FWIW, I found Leibowitz an excellent read...

[When do we get liberated?]

“Not a good day to die” Battle for Shaikot Valley (Anaconda)

What do you think the result would be over at Dummie Underground?

“I read the directions on a pop tart yesterday”
“I am reading how to grow ‘shrooms online”
“I read the warranty on my bong”

[Rocky]

The Everlasting Man, GK Chesterton.

Me, too. I can see why CS Lewis was influenced by him.

[vets son]

Just finished “Act of Treason” by Vince Flynn.
Just started Alan Carr’s “East Way to Stop Smoking”

[lesser_satan]

Not reading any book right now, just Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and some boating mags. I have The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlase and Gusher of Lies (can't remember the author) on my list, though.