What Are You Reading Right Now?
Fred Cole ·
July 31, 2012 at 10:01pm
I figured I'd just put this question out there. It might stimulate some fun discussion.
What are you reading right now?
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Apr '12
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Beautiful language and gallantry on display.
Aug '10
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Do they ever actually fire any muskets in that book?
I've always found it annoying that every 3 Musketeers movie is conspicuously lacking in muskets.
Jun '11
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Just finished Trophy Hunt yesterday and will start In Plain Sight this afternoon. I'm reading C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series in order and the above books are #5 and #6. I'm enjoying them immensely.
Apr '12
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Brother Cadfael's herb garden : an illustrated companion to medieval plants and their uses
Liberal Fascism
My Son, The Wizard. (Part of the Wizard in Rhyme series.)
Apr '11
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Too Much MagicWishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the NationBy James Howard Kunstler
Apr '11
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Dennis Prager's "Still the Best Hope" in hardcover and Jonah Goldberg's "Tyranny of Cliche's" on the kindle app on my HTC.
Apr '11
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Orion: - Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher
- The First World War by John Keegan · Jul 31 at 5:56am
I just finished read The First World War and it was excellent. I always thought WWI was sort of boring, what with all the trench warfare and all. But not at all: Keegan explains it brilliantly!
Apr '11
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And I am currently reading Nick Lane's "Life Ascending: The Ten Greatest Inventions of Evolution". Very interesting stuff, although a little hyperbolic: every invention seems to get the "most important of all time" status. Sort of like every election is the most important one in our lifetimes.
Oct '10
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Casey
The Greater Journeyis wonderful. You will enjoy it. · 1 hour ago
I did not. · 18 hours ago
Thanks Casey, it's going well so far.
Paul, why do you say that?
Oct '10
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Misthiocracy: Last month, I read Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor.
It was alright. Amusing, even. But it wasn't the laugh-out-loud riot that I was expecting. · 22 hours ago
Misthio, G.K. is almost funny. And I mean like almost pregnant.
Oct '10
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I've tried to read it a couple of times, but never get engaged. What do you like about it?
May '12
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Since DeToqueville's "Democracy in America" [vol I&II] is one of the most quoted texts in political writing, I vowed to plow through it this year. Now on page 504 of 705 pages. Well worth reading.
Also reading World Mazazine's top book pick for 2012, "The Triumph of Christianity" by Rodney Stark. Dispels a lot of myths about the rise of Christianity in history.
Fun reading: anything by Robert Crais or Michael Connelly
Jan '11
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I finished Liberal Fascism, The Hobbit, and The Ascent of Money in June. Now I'm in the middle of reading Naomi Novik's Throne of Jade (Patrick O'Brian with dragons) and listening to the audio of The Canterbury Tales. Finally, before the football season obliterates my reading ambitions, I hope to choose one highbrow literary novel to try and squeeze in before the summer ends.
Jun '10
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"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles Mann also "11 Science Fiction Stories by Philip K Dick"
May '11
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Misthiocracy
Do they ever actually fire any muskets in that book?
I've always found it annoying that every 3 Musketeers movie is conspicuously lacking in muskets. · 10 hours ago
They do, at the Siege of Arras. where Milady and Rochefort try to kill the foursome with poisoned wine.
May '11
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To other admirers of Alan Furst: "Spies of the Balkans" and "The Polish Officer" were terrific and I highly recommend them. They were also enjoyable introductions to Greek and Polish culture, to which many of us have not had much exposure.
May '11
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C.J. Box: Thanks to members Aimee Jones and Mole-Eye (Mole-eye?) for reading my books this summer. I appreciate that very much.
I got a sneak peak at Mr. Lilek'sGraveyard Shift, out in August. It's a hoot.
Me? I just finishedGone Girlby Gillian Flynn (page-turning and fantastic),The Sisters Brothersby Patrick DeWitt (quirky but a breath of fresh air) andCanadaby Richard Ford (haunting).
Next up: Daniel Woodrell's The Outlaw Album. Woodrell is an American classic. · 20 hours ago
Finished "Back of Beyond" a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it, too - maybe even more than "Cold Wind."
Nov '11
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The Dickson McCunn trilogy and the Leithen stories by John Buchan and an anthology of excerpts from the Philokalia.
Apr '11
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Misthiocracy
Do they ever actually fire any muskets in that book?
I've always found it annoying that every 3 Musketeers movie is conspicuously lacking in muskets.
In the Richard Lester movie, the lads seize a position in no-man's land at the siege of La Rochelle, in order to have a private conversation, and then defend it (and their lunch) with a bit of musketry.
We love them for their eccentricities, which are brought out by sword fighting, whereas muskets were deployed in mass formations executing synchronized drill.
May '10
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iPad: The Amazing Spiderman -- Brand New Day
Audiobooks: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Scales of Justice, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Art of War
Edited on August 2, 2012 at 1:34pm