What are you reading right now?

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Just finished reading this one by Ludwig von Mises. It is a short and interesting read that provides some very interesting insight on why so many different types of people reject capitalism and embrace communist ideals.

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Any recommendations?

I just finished Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy. Very well written but I found myself disagreeing with a lot of his conclusions. Excellent read about the scope of the war.

Also, dabbling with R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series. Fantasy isn't exactly my favorite but I'm really enjoying it. The Game of Thrones series on HBO got me started.

 
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I've been reading all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

I also read some "graphic novels" (comics).

I'm finally finishing up "Bowl, Polls & Tattered Souls."

On deck: Probably "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." The trailer for the movie looked really good. Then I might move on to "Scorecasting." It's kinda like "Freakanomics" for sports from the sounds of it.

 
I've been engulfed in a prep book for my board exam tomorrow and before that I brushed up on the South Carolina Pharmacy Practice Act for the law exam. I wouldn't really recommend those.

 
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GSG5545 said:
I've been reading all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
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I just finished these early this year. VERY good reads. I didn't think I'd like them much, but I got hooked. Do you have the Classics two-volume series from Barnes & Noble? That's where I got mine. You can't beat the price. I will definitely be reading this again, soon.

@Carlfense - if you like history, specifically ancient history, I recommend Colleen McCullough's Rome series, starting with The First Man in Rome. It is an absolutely brilliant series. Her Julius Caesar is an incomparable character.

I also highly recommend anything by Pressfield (who focuses on the ancient Greeks). Start with Gates of Fire and work your way through the Alexander series. Crazy-good stuff.

I have insomnia, so I read a lot while I wait for the pills to kick in. Right now I'm re-reading some schlock I picked up as a kid, the Mordant's Need series by Donaldson. It's cheesy, and the first book is incredibly dull (and the characters are vapid), but it picks up in the second book, IIRC.

I've read over 300 novels since I started this campaign in January, 2007. It's been a lot of fun.

 
Some books I read recently that I really liked were the Hunger Games Trilogy. It is probably one of my favorite set of books that I have read in quite a while. Here is a short little thing on what it is about:

The Hunger Games is a young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic.[1] It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy.[2] It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where North America once stood. This is where a powerful government working in a central city called the Capitol holds power. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death. The Hunger Games exist to demonstrate not even children are beyond the reach of the Capitol's power

 
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GSG5545 said:
I've been reading all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
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I just finished these early this year. VERY good reads. I didn't think I'd like them much, but I got hooked. Do you have the Classics two-volume series from Barnes & Noble? That's where I got mine. You can't beat the price. I will definitely be reading this again, soon.
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Amazon had a free version for Kindle that has all 56 short stories and the 4 novels. I took a break from them for a bit, but I think I have 2 novels left and three groups of the short stories left.

I agree they are very good. I was pretty blown away by the stories considering when they were written. It was like CSI way, way before it's time.

 
I just finished rereading The Plague by Camus and Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut. Now I'm reading Team of Rivals, the book on Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's been out for awhile but I didn't want to buy it and it took me forever to convince my dad to let me borrow it, because, as he says, "I lose everything. Just like that copy of the Fiesta Bowl."

Well, I am NOT responsible for losing that DVD. It was my sister. But I seriously can't find Team of Rivals, for like two days now. Great.

 
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