What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Inquiry

7/03/08 | MplsSteve

[MplsSteve]

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

I like finding out what Freepers are reading lately. It can be anything...a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel, an old classic...in short, anything!

Please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm Reading This Thread". It became very unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm close to finishing "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow. It's about the siege/battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Well, what are you reading now?!

[BoneHead]

Yes I should look into that. This book was one from my fathers bookcase. A reference collection of Washington Irving. Thomas Crowell and Company.

I have also put off a trip to the Opthamologist for my next set of glasses. Guess I should really schedule that.

[Notary Sojac]

Finished recently:

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean. Stunningly good.

White Jazz by James Ellroy. Wrapping up a re-read of the L.A. Quartet. For those of us who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing we really like.

Currently reading:

Citizens by Simon Schama. Shaping up to be as good a history book as I have read in a number of years (and I read a lot of them).

[magritte]

Start with “Lions of Lucerne”...The Thors are are best in order (I own a used bookstore as well!)...magritte

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Reading and chuckling my way through “Venus on the Half Shell” by fellow Peorian, Phillip Jose Farmer under the nom de plume, “Kilgore Trout”, a character created by Kurt Vonnegut.

I'm also reading “How Mathematicians Think” by William Byers. Quite good at explaining the creative and ambiguous side of mathematics.

[retrokitten]

I keep Audible.com in business. You can download the audiobooks to your computer and then to an MP3 player or on to a CD. It’s slightly cheaper then buying the CDs. I really love them. They just added a bunch of either James Patterson or Dean Koontz (I can’t remember which).

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Oh, I forgot: I’m reading “Lean 6 Sigma” as well, and I completed the biography of James Polk.

[mathluv]

Thanks! I went to FantasticFiction site to get the complete list.

[mathluv]

I will look them up. Many of mine I get from my used book store, which has them at half-price. Some I rent from the library (it is hard to find anything good there), or from one of our book stores that has a rental section.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

“The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.”

Wow! If this is your first time through, you’ve got quite a treat ahead—12 books, 10,000 pages, 2400 characters, hundreds of plot lines, prophecies, battles, good, evil, humor.

As well as hundreds of pages of unnecessary description. But what do you expect from a man who loved Dickens?

[henrygreen]

Thanks for doing this. I always enjoy them.

Just finished

Pied Piper by Nevil Chute
Sapphira and the Slave girl by Willa Cather

meandering my way through the letters of CS Lewis

I’m putting together a reading list based on what he recommends to people in his letters.

I’ll start Bleak House by Dickens soon because Lewis said it was his favorite of the Dickens novels.

I’ll start A Certain Justice by PD James tonight.

[PA Engineer]

The Forgotten 500

The Chilling Stars

[MplsSteve]

Do you like Faulkner?

Last year, I read “Old Man” and I found Fulkner’s writing style to be dense and at the same time wandering.

He was not an easy author to follow - at least my my standards.

[kalee]

The Bird in the Tree, a novel by Elizabeth Goudge

Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis with reading group

Just finished Russell Kirk’s American Cause; about to start Politics of Prudence

Bible

[Verloona Ti]

The Church in the Dark Agesby Henri Daniel-Rops. (Rereading-I have all 10 volumes of this history, and I highly recommend vols I-VIII.)

The Faith Explained by Leo Trese.(Ditto rereading, dated but very informative.)

Sacred Prey Vivian Schilling. (Despite the title, it's dark fantasy/horror, not another religious book.)

When I ride my exercise bike, I read paperbacks by FBI profilers like Douglas , Keppel, Reppler, Hazelwood, etc.

[Dead Corpse]

Just finished Molon Labe by Boston T. Party. Currently reading American Zone by L. Neil Smith.

[billmor]

Just finished reading: The War in the Air: the RAF in WW II edited by Gavin Lyall

Next up: Bnd of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
to be followed by The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorell, followed by The Jungle War by Gerald Astor ( excelent military writer)...

Love this periodic ‘What are you reading now?’...like to see what others are reading too...Good work Mr Smith

[gate2wire]

“Wow! If this is your first time through, you’ve got quite a treat ahead...”

Yes. My first time through. My father speaks highly of the series, so I thought I’d give it a shot. So far, so good.

[codercpc]

I am reading a novel called "The Lost Constitution" by William Martin.

It is a story of,ironically, after last weeks Heller decision, about a so called lost original draft of the Bill of Rights with notes in the margins from the Founding Fathers. The fight is a Dem congresswomen who introduces an Amendment to repeal the 2nd Amendment. A rare book collector is on the run looking for this original draft to see if the FF really thought that the RKBA was an individual right.

I am only half way through and I really can't tell if it is being told from a conservative point of view, or liberal but either way it is really engaging. I can't wait to find out what the Founding Fathers "really" wanted HA HA.

[Brasil]

Just finished Sail by James Patterson and Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich and now working my way through Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Love the thread.

[mollynme]

The No. One Ladies Detective Agency.

I'll second that one. I've gone through most of the series on audiobook. The reader is a South African and her accent and pronunciation of the Tswana words seems authentic.