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Sat Sep-25-04 02:40 PM
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What is everyone reading right now? |
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WHat is at the top of your ToBeRead pile?
on deck: Kitty Kelley's book
TBR: Intelligence Matters by Bob Graham, Chain of Command by Sy Hersh, Who Let the Dogs In by Molly Ivins, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan....and too many others to list.
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:45 PM
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:47 PM
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2. "Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War" |
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:49 PM
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3. got the kitty kelley book from the library yesterday |
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just started it last nite :) looks juicy...
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:49 PM
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4. Right now: Bushworld (Maureen Dowd) |
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Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 03:15 PM by RevCheesehead
also: Kitty Kelley
next up: Worse than Watergate (John Dean)(edit: SORRY!!!)
waiting from Amazon: Fortuante Son, & Molly Ivan's 2 books, and Garrison Keillor's "Homegrown Democrat"
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:52 PM
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5. Bush on the Couch. Next up: Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke |
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:54 PM
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6. Angels and Demons, on deck: Joe Trippi's book |
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The Revolution will not be televised
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:28 PM
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13. I really enjoyed Angels and Demons. But I liked the DaVinci Code better. |
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I have Digital Fortress in my pile too.
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:55 PM
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7. Brave New World Revisited |
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I just finished Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World Revisited" (1958) and I highly recommend it to those who have not already read it. It is a collection of essays, many of which compare Huxley's version of the totalitarian state with that of Orwell. While the essays are not nearly as approachable as is his "Brave New World", they are well worth the effort. Huxley writes extensively about propaganda and how it will be used by both democracies and authoritarian states in the future. Huxley is startlingly prescient and his predictions may outrage you due to their proximity with reality. To be fair, much of his thought is an extension of his knowledge of the writings of Hitler and his propaganda ministers; and their written methodologies are strikingly similar to those employed by our present administration and, to a lesser extent, by both parties.
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:57 PM
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8. "Middlemarch," George Eliot |
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:59 PM
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9. The Fabric of the Cosmos, |
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Edited on Sat Sep-25-04 03:07 PM by Ekova
Space, Time and the Texture of Reality.
Brian Greene.
Awesome book.
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(Ooops - Brian, not Brain)
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Sat Sep-25-04 02:59 PM
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10. The Rebel by Albert Camus... again.. :) |
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:00 PM
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11. Gone For Soldiers, by Jeff Shaara |
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Polk may have been as bad a president as the shrub -- from the general's point of view, anyway.
Kitty Kelley's book next, maybe. Or I may just reread the Aubry series, starting from Master and Commander. See you next year.
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:09 PM
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12. Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan |
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:31 PM
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14. I'm reading posts on DU 'right now', why do you ask? |
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:D
In terms of real books, I'm starting down the road of SQL database administration. :9
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:41 PM
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16. SQL Database Administration? |
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Is this a want-to-do thing or a have-to-do thing? Just wondering if I should feel sorry for you yet. ;)
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:34 PM
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15. Kitty Kelley's book n/t |
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:43 PM
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17. The nutrition label of my bag of bagels. |
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:46 PM
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18. "Heisenberg's War" by Thomas Powers. |
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Fascinating. All about the activities of Werner Heisenberg and the German nuclear weapons program (which remained primitive) during World War II.
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:50 PM
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19. "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens |
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Sat Sep-25-04 03:55 PM
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All about The CIA and Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to Sept. 10th
VERY damning to Republicans and a thrill of a read.
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Sat Sep-25-04 04:10 PM
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21. the ugly american by william lederer and Eugene Burdick(1958) |
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Sat Sep-25-04 06:37 PM
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Sat Sep-25-04 04:14 PM
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Marriage Under Fire by Dr. James Dobson and False Assumptions by Cloud/Townsend.
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Sat Sep-25-04 04:45 PM
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23. Bamford's "A Pretext for War" n/t |
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Sat Sep-25-04 04:49 PM
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then: Neal Stephenson: Confusion Feuchtwanger: Die Geschwister Oppermann Nicol Ljubic: Genosse Nachwuchs Veemeulen: Elements of Java style ...
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Sat Sep-25-04 04:50 PM
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Give me five minutes, ok? Then you can use the bathroom.
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Sat Sep-25-04 04:51 PM
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26. Right now, I'm (slowly) getting through "Life as a Loser" by Will Leitch, |
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and "Just a Geek" by Wil Wheaton. These would normally take an hour each tops (I'm fast), but my attention span has been pretty weak lately.
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Sat Sep-25-04 05:06 PM
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27. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is what |
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I just finished. It's a novel by Mark Haddon. Written from the prespective of a 15 yo boy with Aspergers.
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Sat Sep-25-04 05:08 PM
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Sat Sep-25-04 05:09 PM
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29. The Miocene Arrow by Sean McMullin |
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I highly recommend this newbie Aussie S/F author. Go buy "Souls In The Great Machine" first. Good stuff! I promise.
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Sat Sep-25-04 06:17 PM
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I must try and get hold of Richard Clarke's book, or buy it. But recently I've been reading some of John Grisham's books. Absolutely brilliant, in so many ways!
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Sat Sep-25-04 06:25 PM
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just got it out of our local library...
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Sat Sep-25-04 06:29 PM
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32. I'm going through Shakespeare's historical plays again (nt) |
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