Topic: What Are You Reading Now

[iwalkalone]

Currently reading "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. Thanks, PB - this is fascinating, and disturbing, reading.

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[libby]

Hi Cookie (it's been a while) - 
I'd never heard of Ramsdell, but my work has sometimes brought me in contact with people like him, so I was curious about where he worked. We chatted for a few minutes before others stopped to get their copies signed. Libby
 

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[pobaby]

I'm glad you are reading the book, Tattoo. I think that Mark Steyn has an impressive and effective way of combining humor with his views. Today I read a book, Saturday, by Ian McEwan, that my youngest son was assigned in an english course. Not a "classic" but an interesting read, including some opinions on the present Iraq war. His professor misunderstood the book, and thought it was antiwar. An example of how liberals see things through a filter.

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[iwalkalone]

I'm glad you are reading the book, Tattoo. I think that Mark Steyn has an impressive and effective way of combining humor with his views. Today I read a book, Saturday, by Ian McEwan, that my youngest son was assigned in an english course. Not a "classic" but an interesting read, including some opinions on the present Iraq war. His professor misunderstood the book, and thought it was antiwar. An example of how liberals see things through a filter.

For some reason one phrase leaped out me: "Civil disobedience is a young man's game." I guess because it sums up the people drawn to groups like Al-Qaeda: angry young men with no other outlet for their pent-up hormones. Sounds crude the way I phrase it, but that's one of the points he makes.

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[libby]

"...liberals see things through a filter."

Now where did I get the idea that all of us see things through our own prior conditioning filters?

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[Cookie Parker]

"...liberals see things through a filter."

Now where did I get the idea that all of us see things through our own prior conditioning filters?

You're probably a liberal, Libby.  LOL!!!

Hi!  What sort of work do you do where you get to see authors?  That's a cool job.

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[libby]

Cookie, In the 80s I went to work in a Department of Defense office where top secret clearances and polygraphs are job requirements. Beyond that about all I can say is that they put me to work proofreading, and that I was extremely lucky to have as my first boss a former Navy commander who became my mentor and friend. Libby

 

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[Cookie Parker]

Cookie, In the 80s I went to work in a Department of Defense office where top secret clearances and polygraphs are job requirements. Beyond that about all I can say is that they put me to work proofreading, and that I was extremely lucky to have as my first boss a former Navy commander who became my mentor and friend. Libby

 

Hey, Libby, I was a WAVE with an MOS of radioman and had to get a top secret security clearance for all the messages we sent and received.  Can't recall the polygraph, and I was in in the early 1970's.

It's great when you get someone who's been on the inside as a boss.  I think they are pretty special, but I"m prejudiced on this.

Cool....interesting work, Libby.   Very interesting.

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[Dionysus]

I'm glad you are reading the book, Tattoo. I think that Mark Steyn has an impressive and effective way of combining humor with his views. Today I read a book, Saturday, by Ian McEwan, that my youngest son was assigned in an english course. Not a "classic" but an interesting read, including some opinions on the present Iraq war. His professor misunderstood the book, and thought it was antiwar. An example of how liberals see things through a filter.

No wonder tiny p has such a fondness for Steyn.  A Canadian high school dropoutd turned disc jockey turned pundit, with the insight of Dick "Shooter" Cheney,  ahhhhhhh....poor tiny p, if only you could catch a break, maybe just maybe.....

Some of Steyn's more memorable predictions were, bush will win in a landslide in 2000, there would be no widespread resentment of the presence of western military in Iraq,  in December 2003 he wrote, "another 6 weeks of insurgency sounds about right", or the following March when he insisted that: "I don't think it's possible for anyone who looks at Iraq honestly to see it as anything other than a success story."

He's also notable for his lack of facts to back up his assertions. I'd check his numbers on the "muslim" takeover of europe.


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[Fancy_Flo]

Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss--about herbal medicine.





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[moondance27]

I just finished "The Road" by Comac McCarthy, it was very good.  I cried at the end. I read it in two days.

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[Fancy_Flo]

I spent the entire day today reading Ezekiel in the Bible.  It has 48 chapters, so I'm not through yet.  Ezekiel, Danial and Isaiah are my favorite books.  I took notes today, and looked up Gog of Magog, Tyre, and Tubal in a concordance to get a better picture. I have  read them so many times and they are all underlined and things written in the margins like where else I have seen this.  A lot of Revelation is from Ezekiel, Danial and Isaiah.  i should have put this in "What Are You Re-reading.

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[past tense]

I'm reading Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs.  She's the forensic anthropologist who's the inspiration for one of my favorite tv shows, "Bones".  This is the seventh book of hers that I've read; she's so interesting.

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[past tense]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.  This is about one of my favorite topics: Dracula!  I'm a vampire book and movie fan.

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[notatroll]

Do you like the older Anne Rice Vampire books?

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