What are YOU reading.....

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Right now????

I found this to be mildly fun.Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free


Book Description
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won.

A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.

In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle... But worse than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a cheering crowd, “We are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!” He knew then and there it was time to try and salvage the Land of the Enlightened, buried somewhere in this new Home of the Uninformed.

With his razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States, and how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate.

With Idiot America, Pierce's thunderous denunciation is also a secret call to action, as he hopes that somehow, being intelligent will stop being a stigma, and that pinheads will once again be pitied, not celebrated.

[JohnRich 4]

Just finished: "The Janson Directive", by Robert Ludlum (famed for the "Bourne" series).

Now reading: "The Justicer", about a murder trial for an Indian in 1886.

[billvon 2,676]

Recent books:

Big Dead Place (good but very odd, about Antarctica)
MEG: Hell's Aquarium (as bad as it sounds, bought it in ATL when I got stuck there for 10 hours)
Bone Shop, part of a series by Tim Pratt. Sort of a more gritty, R-rated Harry Potter.

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Just finished the last of the Sword of Truth series . . . I'm taking a break from reading -

but I am thinking about starting Off Armageddon Reef by David Webber

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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Most recently, all the main-line books in the Liaden-verse.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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Currently: "Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell.

Recently completed: "The Tipping Point" by Gladwell

On deck: "Courage and Consequence" by Karl Rove; "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" by Brigitte Gabriel; and a few others that are in the "stack"...one about Freddy Mercury, and I'm thinking of re-reading an old Clancy novel just to feed some candy to the brain...

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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Recent books:

Big Dead Place (good but very odd, about Antarctica)

wasn't that a good read?

My aunt suggested it to me. My uncle read it as prep for his summer in Antarctica.

--
Rob

[quade 4]

Most of the books I read tend to be instructional books. Just finished Story by Robert McKee. I also read a lot of screenplays, the last one was The Apartment by by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[airdvr 201]

Stephen King 'Dumas Key'.

Haven't started another yet.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

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Terry Jones' Barbarians.

[RonD1120 58]

ONE NATION UNDER THERAPY
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance

by

Christina Hoff Summers
and
Sally Satel, MD

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[kallend 1,798]

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[lawrocket 3]

Your post...

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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I found this to be mildly fun.Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

Look at the amount of gossip magazines, reality television shows, etc... all discussing people.

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"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

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How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
http://www.amazon.com/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes/dp/047052670X
by Peter Schiff

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no prisoners" logic to expose the glaring fallacies that have become so ingrained in our country’s economic conversation.
Inspired by How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t—a previously published book by the Schiffs’ father Irwin, a widely published economist and activist—How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes incorporates the spirit of the original while tackling the latest economic issues.With wit and humor, the Schiffs explain the roots of economic growth, the uses of capital, the destructive nature of consumer credit, the source of inflation, the importance of trade, savings, and risk, and many other topical principles of economics.

The tales told here may appear simple of the surface, but they will leave you with a powerful understanding of How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes.

Very powerful in terms of dispelling long-held misbeliefs about economics, I highly recommend it.

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. " -John Galt from Atlas Shrugged, 1957

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just finishing up "the art of racing in the rain".

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Just completed "Deep Survival" (again) ... love that book

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[TheBachelor 5]

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years...

[grimmie 179]

I just finished "Flight of Passage" and now I have just found my old paperback copy of "Report From Engine Company 82". Time to read it again for old times sake.

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the billionaire who wasnt

biography about chuck feeney one of the biggest philanthropists ever and all round absolute legend

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"Arsenals of Folly" by Richard Rhodes.

He got a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for "The Making of the Atom Bomb," and "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" was positively brilliant.

His latest opus is a worthy follow-up to the first two.

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Piper Archer II POH.

James

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I am about to start reading the book my mom just sent me:
The Class of '42: Marines in WW II

It is written by a man who was in the same company as my grandfather, so his experience in the war may have been similar. She even sent me a detailed timeline from his service record, along with a chapter by chapter description of what my grandfather would have been doing at that time. Pretty cool.

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The Monk and Knowledge of Angels

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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield