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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry
7/03/08
| MplsSteve
Posted on 07/03/2008 8:40:03 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished William W. Johnstone’s “Honor Of The
Mountain Man”.
It seems to be a story of “The Outlaw Josey Wells” after
he went to Mexico and remarried”
The character's name is changed to “Joey Wells”.
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:44:31 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto!)
To: MplsSteve
“The Rising Tide” by Jeff Shaara.
A novel of WWII.
I would recommend it to anyone.
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:44:39 AM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Peace! through superior fire power....)
To: MplsSteve
To: Daus
"Monster of Florence" - Douglas Preston. I just finished listening to that one on audiobook. LOVED IT! It reminded me of the Zodiac murders in the SF Bay area.
I also enjoy his Agent Pendergast books with Lincoln Child. "Still Life With Crows" is my favorite. They aren't exactly deep, but they are a fun read.
To: raynearhood
Funny....my brother, who is a pastor, loved the Oath, too. I’ve had Monster on my shelf for 3 years but cant get into it, at all. Then recently I read “Monster House” (or something along those lines, written with another author)but it was almost secular and boring to me.
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:49:25 AM PDT
by
mpackard
(Proud mama of a Sailor.)
To: flowerplough
One of the things you learn reading her book is how far back the mess actually began, she was just carrying on a long tradition of justices that could pull things from thin air that fit their ideology and claim it was somehow in the Constitution or should have been. She shows you the pattern of cases that in sum weakened the Constitution over the years; of course to her they were great rulings, but she tells enough about them for you to get the picture clearly. That is why I am enjoying the book- it makes me angry, but does give insight to what has happened, and is still happening. I do recommend it.
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:50:09 AM PDT
by
Tammy8
(Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
To: MplsSteve
I'm reading
Has Anyone Seen My Reading Glasses? It's a very funny book, starting with the author's adventures growing up in The Bronx and working at Yankee Stadium, followed by his description of a successful career and an early retirement.
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:50:30 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: MplsSteve
Well since I’m kinda burned out on politics and need an escape, I’m reading the Jim Butcher Dresden Files series.
Just started book 3 Grave Peril.
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:51:26 AM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
To: MplsSteve
Currenlty reading...
Great book about the life of Capt. Henry Morgan, privateer turned pirate and how he terrorized Central America and the Spanish Main in the mid 1600s.
On deck...
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:52:45 AM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Happy Birthday America!!!)
To: azcap
The Devil in the White City:
I read that last year, and loved it. My wife could only get so far into it as the H.H.Holmes portion scared the crap out of her. I enjoyed reading about the planning of the Chicago World Fair so much that I could barely put the book down.
I learned a couple things, too. Example: The El in Chicago was the modern technology attraction of the 1893 World Fair. I never looked into it, but always assumed the Elevated Trains were built out of necessity, not to marvel!
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:55:00 AM PDT
by
raynearhood
("Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world... and she walks into mine.")
To: MplsSteve
Right now, I’m for once not reading anything, because I’m editing and re-editing (rinse and repeat) a story I am writing for a writing contest. Yes, pray for me. ;-)
BUT, my mom just gave me “Ann Rule’s True Crime Files- Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder.” So that is one deck and next up on audiobook (I get to listen while I work) is “Reading Lolita In Tehran.”
To: MplsSteve
I just finished Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert (Frank's son) and Kevin J. Anderson. In the middle of Les Schwab's autobiography. Re-reading Newt's To Renew America. I'll be heading off to the bookstore later this afternoon to try and find something new. Oh yeah, there's the Apocrypha (lost/missing books of the Bible). Reading makes it easy to see why many of them were left out. < BG >
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posted on
07/03/2008 9:58:40 AM PDT
by
Don W
(To write with a broken pencil is pointless.)
To: MplsSteve
Just finished "Gross National Happiness," by Arthur Brooks. Argues, with a lot of survey data, that true contentment comes not from equality of outcome but a belief in equality of opportunity, and not from money nearly as much as from engagement in voluntarism, church, etc. Pretty good; written for a general audience, and all the statistical work is relegated to the back.
Am currently reading "1491: New Revelations of America Before Columbus," about life in aboriginal America before Europeans got here. I am reading it for a book I am writing myself, and am not far enough into it to render a verdict yet.
I also just finished "A Splendid Exchange," William Bernstein's story of the history of commerce. A neat book, like his last ("The Birth of Plenty"), full of interesting anecdotes even as I don't quite buy many of his conclusions.
To: MplsSteve
Just finished Michael Crichton's "State of Fear", now into a new translation of Sun Tzu's "Art of War" with comments by his contemporaries, next probably "The Shack" for some inspirational change of mood.
Bathroom: Shotgun News, Small Arms Review, ArcNews, the Schwan's catalog.
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posted on
07/03/2008 10:04:57 AM PDT
by
Sender
(Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
To: MplsSteve
“The Wolves of Calla” Book 5 in the Dark Tower series by King. Finding it a little hard to get into. The first two books really held my interest, but I’m kind of limping through the series now.
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posted on
07/03/2008 10:05:33 AM PDT
by
agooga
(Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
To: azcap
Loved, loved, loved that book. I mainly picked it up for the parts about HH Holmes and figured I’d trudge through the parts about the fair. But the creation of the fair was fascinating!
His description of life at that time is so vivid that it blew me away. If it hadn’t happened so long ago, I would have sworn he had to be there experiencing the things first hand.
One thing that struck me was how the fair organizers wouldn’t allow Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show to be a part of the fair. So, they set up outside and made a boatload of money.
To: MplsSteve
Oh, and partway through “The Way of a Ship” by Derek Lundy.
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posted on
07/03/2008 10:06:00 AM PDT
by
Sender
(Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
To: mnehrling; All
Night by Elie Wiesel.
Just wrapped up Life Expectancy by D. Koontz.
Maybe I should have switched the order. The Koontz book was more humor oriented.
I've seriously considered a moratorium on news (and yes, even FR) for a few months. I need to clense the spiritual palate. Any suggestions for uplifting, life-affirming reading anyone?
To: Fractal Trader
To: Fractal Trader
Two Wars by Nate Self
Lone Survivor
Jim Tressel’s The Winners Manual
Dead Heat by Joel Rosenberg
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