What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey

7/12/10

[MplsSteve]

Hi, everyone!

It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" survey.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read groups currently on the Internet. Each quart, I like to find out what everyone is reading.

It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY Times best-seller, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!

Please do not ruin this thread by posting something inane like "I'm reading this post". It became very unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading a historical biography called "John L Lewis: Labor Leader" by Robert Zieger. I have found it to be a real even-handed look at one of the major figures of the American labor movement during the early to mid 20th Century. The author goes as far to state that some of the problems with today's current labor unions can be traced to John L Lewis's leadership of the UMW.

Well, what are YOU reading?

[Publius]

Here's a little something to help you understand the book.

FReeper Book Club: Introduction to Atlas Shrugged
Part I, Chapter I: The Theme
Part I, Chapter II: The Chain
Part I, Chapter III: The Top and the Bottom
Part I, Chapter IV: The Immovable Movers
Part I, Chapter V: The Climax of the d’Anconias
Part I, Chapter VI: The Non-Commercial
Part I, Chapter VII: The Exploiters and the Exploited
Part I, Chapter VIII: The John Galt Line
Part I, Chapter IX: The Sacred and the Profane
Part I, Chapter X: Wyatt’s Torch
Part II, Chapter I: The Man Who Belonged on Earth
Part II, Chapter II: The Aristocracy of Pull
Part II, Chapter III: White Blackmail
Part II, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the Victim
Part II, Chapter V: Account Overdrawn
Part II, Chapter VI: Miracle Metal
Part II, Chapter VII: The Moratorium on Brains
Part II, Chapter VIII: By Our Love
Part II, Chapter IX: The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt
Part II, Chapter X: The Sign of the Dollar
Part III, Chapter I: Atlantis
Part III, Chapter II: The Utopia of Greed
Part III, Chapter III: Anti-Greed
Part III, Chapter IV: Anti-Life
Part III, Chapter V: Their Brothers’ Keepers
Part III, Chapter VI: The Concerto of Deliverance
Part III, Chapter VII: “This is John Galt Speaking”
Part III, Chapter VIII: The Egoist
Part III, Chapter IX: The Generator
Part III, Chapter X: In the Name of the Best Within Us
Coda: Ten Years After
Afterword and Suggested Reading

[Nachum]

This week I will start one or all of the following: Because they hate : a survivor of Islamic terror warns America (Brigitte Gabriel)

To your scattered bodies go; a science fiction novel

The Fabulous Riverboat (Philip José Farmer)

[filospinato]

I just finished “Hound of the Baskervilles” by A. Conan Doyle, will start “The Valley of Fear” tonight.

[day10]

3/4 of the way through “Innocent” by Scott Turow. Not bad so far, but I really enjoy Turow’s style. It is a sequel to “Presumed Innocent”, so having read that is a help.

[loveliberty2]

Suggest a recently-published book entitled, "The Destruction of the Great American Dream," which can be found here. It is only 75 pages, but is packed with good information for understanding what is happening to America today.

The author is Co-Editor of another book on the principles of liberty which formed the foundation of the U. S. Constitution, which can be accessed at the same site.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

1. The last in a 7-volume series of the complete works of Xenophon.

2. “As we Go Marching” by John T. Flynn (study of the development of fascism in Italy and Germany leading up to WWII and how we were following the same path way back in the 1940’s, and still are, by the way)

3. Still reading fellow freeper LS’s “Patriots History of the United States.”

4. “Climategate” by Brian Sussman.

[ladyvet]

“American Apocalypse 11” by Nova
“Road To Serfdom” by Hayek....again.
“500 Pizza & Flatbreads” by Baugniet

[rhombus]

The Golden Ocean by Patrick O’Brian. Once you finish the Aubrey-Maturin series, what else is there? ;-)

[kayak42]

Finished “Atlas Schrugged”, half way thru “The Grand Jihad”.

Grand Jihad is worth reading.

[Marathoner]

Culture of Corruption
Basic Economics, Applied Economics(both by Sowell)
Eat to Live

[My hearts in London - Everett]

The 5000 Year Leap

[MtnClimber]

I just finished “Stranger in a Strange Land”.

[Logic n' Reason]

Reading the Patrick O'Brien novels (the Aubrey/Maturin adventures); I'm through three and just started number four.
Also just finished "The Last Stand", "The Closing of the Western Mind", "Daily Life in the Victorian Home", and "The Victorians"

[gatorhead]

The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War, by James Nelson. Vivid and intense. A fascinating read for any fan of the military history genre.

[GSWarrior]

A Conflict of Visions --Thomas Sowell
Buried Deep -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Just finished Dying Inside, by Robert Silverberg. It was awesome.

[shawnlaw]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula on my Crackberry via B and N eReader and Gaunt’s Ghosts: The Founding by Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40K, Black Library). Next up is Volume 2 of Sherlock Holmes collection.

[SMARTY]

“1812: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign” by Richard K. Reihn

“Die Hard!: Dramatic Actions from the Napoleonic Wars”
by Philip J. Haythornthwaite

Reading both at once.

[pnut22]

Just finished The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow. Tearjerker.

[1000 silverlings]

I’m looking for a good book on the Ming Dynasty, anybody got any recommendations?

[central_va]

“Basic Plumbing Techniques” by Robert Wehrman