What are you reading?

Bri in Chi

Bri in Chi

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I am deep into The One Percent Doctrine. If you're curious about what went on inside our government right after 9/11, you won't be able to put this book down. Not written by a Bush-bashing, Michael Moore liberal, but by a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who knows all the people. Fascinating stuff. It makes the evening news make a little more sense. Our government has changed dramatically.
 
I don't read anymore. I'm a dullard. But I like to see activity all around me.

I read lists of books people really like.


munk
 
Reading slaughterhouse 5 for military history class and Lonesome Gods by Louis L'Amour just for fun.
 
The essential guide to Native American Healing by Kenneth Cohen

amazing book by an adopted Cree who has been learning traditional healing from Native American Elders for 30 years. written with respect, humility and intelligence.
 
"Yes, I understand. I used to love the sound of other people reading."
Bri In Chi


What is the sound of one person reading?


(when you know the answer to that, you may leave this place)


munk
 
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I took a break from Catch-22 because I was doing most of my reading very late at night and I think that it was driving me a little bit insane; I was starting to see just how much my own life mirrors that of some of the characters. I've recently finished Taylor's Big Game and Big Game Rifles and The Hate Factory, by G. Hirliman. (The latter could accurately be described as a CO's worst nightmare. I like horror.) Both were all right, although Taylor contradicts himself at times and Hirliman's idealistic plans for a perfect correctional system (vague as they are) have already been tried, unsuccessfully. I don't regret reading either.

What I'm currently reading is engrossing. I was familiar with the tale but not the specifics, and Olsen does a good job of fleshing out the details and presenting the chief antagonist in shades of gray rather than absolutes; it's my belief that Dr. Hazzard actually believed her own rhetoric, at least initially, and the author makes this clear. The fact that Olalla is local to me and that I already have an interest in Kitsap County's history adds to the attraction, and I plan on checking out the site that the sanitarium formerly was located at when I have the time.
 
The Week magazine.

Last book I read was The Best Business Advice I Ever Got
by Donald Trump.
 
munk said:
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What is the sound of one person reading?

(when you know the answer to that, you may leave this place)

munk
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Depends on what they are reading aloud. :D

(And do they have a lisp?)
 
Book 3 of The Book Of Words trilogy. After I finish it I'm picking up House of Leaves or Mists of Avalon next. Read The Great Book Of Amber right before this series.

Also browsing the US Army SF Medical Handbook my mom got me for my birthday.
 
"Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant." I highly recommend it; next time you see an idiot with a Che Guevara t-shirt :mad: you'll remember the left's brainwashing and the reality about this murdering commie coward. :thumbdn:

I'm doing research for writing an editorial on Fidel; can't wait til he's dead to write it. I'm going to light his beard on fire! :cool:


Mike
 
I am reading Simon Winchester's Krakatoa - an interesting visit with early Indonesia from an author with a decidedly scientific writing style.

n2s
 
I just finished reading Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" last night. The first half was disturbing; I'm now a little queasy about eating Spam or kielbasa.

The next book on the list is Stendhal's "The Red and the Black." I don't know why I chose it. I was in Barnes & Noble one day and I saw it. I picked it up and after reading the brief synopsis on the back decided that it sounded interesting. Next thing I know I'm at the counter buying a copy.

Every day I read a chapter in the Bible. One of my life's goals is to read the entire thing, cover to cover. At this point I'm at Numbers, Chapter 11. I've got a long way to go.
 
I'm just 3/4's of the way through a great double by investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich: "Nickel and Dimed" about her work at jobs throughout America for minimum wage and her inability to survive on such wages (can you say Wal-Mart?), and "Bait and Switch" about her undercover experience looking for a white color job, dealing with job coaches, slimy corporate droids, etc., etc. (All sounds very familiar!)

This last has been especially enlightening as she provides copious footnotes that reference other books that look really interesting, which discuss the fake, posturing mindset that white collar managers have to maintain and cultivate inside most large business organizations in order to get by, as well as the positive phoniness that they have to exude in order to thrive.

Great reading, and you can currently get both books on sale through BOMC/Quality paperback book clubs.

Norm
 
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