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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: LambSlave

“The Last Valley” is very tragic. Before you start reading, you already know what the outcome will be but I found myself (strangely enough) hoping for a different outcome. How terribly the French troops suffered during that siege. I can’t even begin to think of how awful it must have been.

In some respects, I think the decline of France (in the post WWII years) started there. As I once read somewhere “France lost its backbone in Indochina and it lost its soul in Algeria” - or something similar to that.


81 posted on 07/03/2008 9:23:00 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Please don’t try to ruin the spirit of Free Republic by silly requests not to defile a thread.

It’s what we do!


82 posted on 07/03/2008 9:23:15 AM PDT by altura (McCain for President - or, as I call it, NOBama.)
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To: MplsSteve

I cant reed or rite, I shood bee in Irak with thee uther loosers!


83 posted on 07/03/2008 9:23:32 AM PDT by NRA1995 (It should be called "Cosa Nostra", not "Congress")
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To: MplsSteve

Freakonomics


84 posted on 07/03/2008 9:23:56 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: MplsSteve; 506trooper; aberaussie; Alberta's Child; AQGeiger; arbee4bush; Ax; Brasil; Burn24; ...
FR BOOK CLUB Ping

Once again, I find myself neglecting my duties, as I haven't gotten around to posting a Summer Reading Thread yet, even though summer arrived almost 2 weeks ago.

If I may expand, without hijacking, this thread: a couple question that I'm curious about: do you want more frequent Book threads or would you prefer just pings to existing book threads?

85 posted on 07/03/2008 9:24:11 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: MplsSteve

i just finished nassim nicolas taleb’s “black swan”

and i’m a third of the way thru’ jonah goldberg’s “liberal fascism”.


86 posted on 07/03/2008 9:24:14 AM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished Patrick O’Brian’s “The Commodore.”

Currently reading “Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy” by Ian W. Toll.

Excellent read. I highly recommend it.


87 posted on 07/03/2008 9:24:55 AM PDT by Skooz (Any nation that would elect Hillary Clinton as its president has forfeited its right to exist.)
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To: MplsSteve

Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett


88 posted on 07/03/2008 9:25:14 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: mpackard

This is my 3rd time, I think, reading “This Present Darkness.” Next is “Piercing...” of course. 3rd time, too. Though the last time I read the books was sometime around 1996 or so. I don’t think his other books are let downs, as a matter of fact, I think “The Oath” was his best one yet. It’s hard for a book to grip me in the first three paragraphs, but the escaping through the woods scene in that book was simply amazing.


89 posted on 07/03/2008 9:25:25 AM PDT by raynearhood ("Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world... and she walks into mine.")
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To: Former War Criminal

Faulkner, the Master. I’m reading Absalom, Absalom!.


90 posted on 07/03/2008 9:26:02 AM PDT by fullchroma (The next 9 years are going to be just awful)
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To: Clemenza

While hanging out at “Books a Million” the other day (yeah, I’m a fun guy) I thumbed through a book that is supposed to refute Dawkins’ assertions, point by point.

I can’t recall the name of the book or the author, but it looked pretty good.

Not good enough for me to plunk down the retail price for a hardcover copy, mind you. But, good.


91 posted on 07/03/2008 9:29:39 AM PDT by Skooz (Any nation that would elect Hillary Clinton as its president has forfeited its right to exist.)
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To: MplsSteve
Right now, I'm reading "Triplanetary" by E.E."Doc" Smith, which is included in a SF Book Club edition called "Tales of the Lensmen" Volume 1. It has three books included.

"Triplanetary" is so dense that even though I'm 100 pages in, I haven't a clue as to what I'm reading, and I'll probably give up soon. Oddly enough, the Foreward, written sometime in the 70s even admits that the first few chapters are terrible, but then it gets going. I've no clue where it's going.

If I give it up, I'll probably pull out the 4 David Gemmel books that have been in the basement for way too long: "Legend", "The King Behind the Gate" and the next two books in that series.

I'll probably also request the next 2 or 3 Sue Grafton books from the library as that's been my summer reading for the last couple of years.

Past books at: http://www.geocities.com/tanniker/
Yep, I started keeping a page just to remember the books that I've been reading. I've thought of switching to a blog, but then I'd have to start all over again.

92 posted on 07/03/2008 9:29:48 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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Two recent reads from my list, pretty decent, and just in time for the upcoming election season:

Adams vs. Jefferson : the tumultuous election of 1800 / John Ferling.

and

Setting the world ablaze : Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution / John Ferling.

93 posted on 07/03/2008 9:30:46 AM PDT by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
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To: Sunnyflorida
Just finishing up the last volume of Samuel Eliot Morison’s 15 Volume set of the History of the United States Navy in WWII - second read. Great story.

My gosh, I bet that is excellent.

94 posted on 07/03/2008 9:30:55 AM PDT by Skooz (Any nation that would elect Hillary Clinton as its president has forfeited its right to exist.)
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To: MplsSteve

Beyond the Band Of Brothers by Dick Winters. Futher recollections by him that did not make the original book or mini series


95 posted on 07/03/2008 9:33:49 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished “Dead Heat” by Joel Rosenberg

This is the last of His Last Jihad series.
The Last Jihad
The Last days
The Ezekiel Option
The Copper Scroll
Dead Heat
these are excellent, fast moving stories based on Bibical Scriptures in ‘now’ time.

I started with ‘the Ezekiel Option’. all were Great reads.
Now I am reading his non- fiction book
“Epicenter”
Also an excellent read.


96 posted on 07/03/2008 9:34:41 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: MplsSteve
Retribution The Battle For Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings.
97 posted on 07/03/2008 9:37:18 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: MplsSteve

Just Finished Ken Timmerman’s Shadow Warriors. Unbelievable and sickening. The State Department and CIA are completely infiltrated with liberals who would rather destroy the President than protect the country.


98 posted on 07/03/2008 9:39:15 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Disturbin

I have the book Jefferson- Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, etc. It is a Library of America book. I confess I haven’t read it cover to cover. I do pick it up every once in a while and read some of it, I have learned a lot of things I didn’t know before. There is a lot of detail about things that happened during his life. Very interesting.


99 posted on 07/03/2008 9:39:48 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
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To: MplsSteve

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at
by Erik Larson - A really fascinating book that intertwines the story of the building of the Chicago Worlds Fair and serial killings of H.H. Holmes during the fair.


100 posted on 07/03/2008 9:43:29 AM PDT by azcap
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