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What are you reading?

by: leftake

February 03, 2010 10:20 PM

What are you reading these days? Books, that is.

Go ahead - discuss, recommend, etc. Let's see what the Left Take community is up to.

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And yes... comic books are okay

by: leftakeWed Feb 03, 2010 at 21:35:27 PM CST

We like em, at least.

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I read the New York Times and the New Yorker

by: jurgen66Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 18:34:27 PM CST

I think Bush is very talented and smart, I can't read upside down like he can :-(

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Sigh... okay, so I guess nobody reads here, eh? :)

by: leftakeThu Feb 04, 2010 at 07:31:55 AM CST

Let's move on to something else...

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Just read yesterday's post LEFT

by: The ParduThu Feb 04, 2010 at 07:35:21 AM CST

I have rec'd many suggestions of material to read...but do not find the time to do so. I cannot think of the three recommendations that I have rec'd of late, so I cannot even throw those titles out for the folks.

Sorry,

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
- Sidney Lanier

THE HAND BEHIND THE MOUSE

by: Craig DThu Feb 04, 2010 at 10:39:19 AM CST

"An initmate biography of Ub Iwerks, the man Walt Disney called 'the greatest animator in the world'"

I got a used copy of it as a birthday present. It should come as no suprise that I am a life-long, big-time cartoon fan.

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Elephants Can't Dance

by: sjwillis39Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 11:41:21 AM CST

It is a book written by the former CEO of IBM regarding the turn around done there. It is pretty interesting might be interesting to those who like managment books.

I also read(well actually listened to because it is on audio book) Murry N. Rothbard's Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty. This was a pretty fascinating listen and I would highly recommend it to anyone into philiosiphical discussions, it can be downloaded for free off of iTunes Universtiy under the Mises Institute.

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"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

F A Hayek

Farmhouse Ales

by: nethThu Feb 04, 2010 at 12:53:32 PM CST

yes a book about alcohol.
This particular one is about the old styles of Belgian Saisons and French Biere De Grades. History, how to make, old mashing practices, its beer-nerdy but I like it

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You might want to check out...

by: LiberalinLimboThu Feb 04, 2010 at 17:37:48 PM CST

The Book of Bourbon. It has a section on the history of alcohol in America, and a section for recipes and drinking stories. It's actually very well written.
If you're even more deeply interested in that tangent of history, you might want to checkout "Bootleggers, rumrunners, and Moonshiners" and "Hillbilly: The Real Story".

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"Every ship launched, every missile fired... is a robbery from those who hunger and are not fed; who are cold and are not clothed" Dwight David Eisenhower

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I may check it out

by: nethThu Feb 04, 2010 at 18:10:38 PM CST

At the moment I'm reading about beer because I recently picked up the hobby of making it myself. I actually think my family had a copy of "Bootleggers, rumrunners, and Moonshiners" in the basement of the older folks house, so I may pick it up next time I can return there.

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me?

by: lamb12Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 16:53:50 PM CST

An Insurance denial notice.

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Don't suffocate on your own hate.

What I'm reading

by: LiberalinLimboThu Feb 04, 2010 at 17:32:27 PM CST

Right now I'm on The Return of The King, after which I'll be taking a Tolkien break, then reading one of my old favorites for a paper, the House on Mango Street.
Then I'll probably jump back into Tolkien, then move onto... well, I could go on like this forever, but some notables are Imagining India, 1984, Plato's Republic, and The Prince.
as for comic books, I'm enjoying Bleach once again.

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"Every ship launched, every missile fired... is a robbery from those who hunger and are not fed; who are cold and are not clothed" Dwight David Eisenhower

The Road

by: ShoezThu Feb 04, 2010 at 17:56:54 PM CST

Dark, depressing... and kind of makes me want to go curl up in a corner and die. But then again, so does Limbaugh.

Oh, that said, it's a great read, albeit not my usual.

Other than that, anything by James Patterson.

Or manga, but I'll deny that with every fiber of my being.

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The best deals on shoes

Atlas Shrugged

by: BugSprayThu Feb 04, 2010 at 18:41:12 PM CST

What do expect from a Conservative?

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Water for Elephants

by: DarciThu Feb 04, 2010 at 19:22:45 PM CST

Someone loaned me this... it was a pleasant surprise. It's the story of Turn of the Century Circus Life as told by an old man in a nursing home. I REALLY ENJOYED IT! Now what??
I hate to read NON-fiction.... eww. Law Journals all day do me in... the brain pan fills up.

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The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins

by: spiral115Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 16:58:46 PM CST

@SHOEZ - "The Road" is a great book!

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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

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