What are you reading now!!

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If you aren't reading any books or pdf(poor alternative) you aren't trying or educating yourself. I am sure all of you have seen the famous documentary and book threads on here. Well, get crackin' and read.

For me I like holding the book so I have to order books shipped from the USA or UK to my local book store. Crazy. I am ordering books so often now they almost can expect my monthly visits.

Please tell me what you ARE reading below.

I am currently reading like four books:
1. Ten-Day MBA. GREAT BOOK!!! Highly recommend it.
2. Just started Human Action. Got it today!!
3. About to start "Essencial Chomskey"
4. I need to finish Al Qaeda, great book, but the vocabulary is murder; I don't know if I'll ever finish it.

Honorable mention goes to my one world government loving wife for on and off attempts at reading my copy of Ron Paul's "The Revolution".

If I had to recommend ONE book, it would be Palast's book "Armed Madhouse". Palast's is the best writer I have read over the last year and a half. He is so funny and you just can't put his two books down.
 
If you aren't reading any books or pdf(poor alternative) you aren't trying or educating yourself. I am sure all of you have seen the famous documentary and book threads on here. Well, get crackin' and read.

For me I like holding the book so I have to order books shipped from the USA or UK to my local book store. Crazy. I am ordering books so often now they almost can expect my monthly visits.

Please tell me what you ARE reading below.

I am currently reading like four books:
1. Ten-Day MBA. GREAT BOOK!!! Highly recommend it.
2. Just started Human Action. Got it today!!
3. About to start "Essencial Chomskey"
4. I need to finish Al Qaeda, great book, but the vocabulary is murder; I don't know if I'll ever finish it.

Honorable mention goes to my one world government loving wife for on and off attempts at reading my copy of Ron Paul's "The Revolution".

If I had to recommend ONE book, it would be Palast's book "Armed Madhouse". Palast's is the best writer I have read over the last year and a half. He is so funny and you just can't put his two books down.

I am reading:

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
 
I have no shame. I'm re-reading the entire Harry Potter series, damnit!!

Oh, and Naomi Wolf's The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.
 
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"Boomsday" by Christopher Buckley

Hilarious fiction about a blogger who suggests the solution to the Social Security crisis is to institute government sponsored suicide for baby boomers at age 70. There's even some inflation and fiscal responsibility talk in the book. Good stuff.
Buckley also wrote the book that became the movie of the same name "Thank You For Smoking".


Just finished the excellent "Children of Jihad" by Jared Cohen.
Reviewed it for freeople.com


Enjoy.
 
  • The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (Fantasy - Book 2 of the Wheel of Time series)
  • Blue Truth - A spiritual guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex by David Deida (Deida has awesome stuff on relationships and love which I highly recommend)
  • Some book on Solar Power for the home...

I'll have to check out that 10 day MBA book.
 
1. Economics for real people by Gene Callahan http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf
2. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt http://jim.com/econ/contents.html
3. Crash Proof by Peter Schiff
Occasionally re-reading part of The Revolution: A Manifesto
soon to read:
America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard http://www.scribd.com/doc/2511921/Americas-Great-Depression?ga_related_doc=1
1776 by David McCullough
and all of the other free pdfs of ron pauls books on mises.org (freedom under siege, the case for gold, pillars of prosperity, gold peace and prosperity, mises and austrian economics)
and the law by Frederick Bastait (also available for free on mises.)
 
ronpaulforums.com been reading it since may 2007 and i don't think i'm even close to the end yet... haven't even finished the first chapter really.
 
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Was reading a couple random chapters from Human Action the other day.
 
I'm currently reading...

After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East
by Gwynne Dyer

The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen


The book(s) I'd most like to read right now is the space opera novel Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu by Yoshiki Tanaka. Unfortunately, I can't yet read Japanese... :( The anime adaptation is incredibly fascinating, and I highly recommend it to those who can appreciate political and social commentary.


@SnappleLlama
Harry Potter could have been great, but the Half-Baked Plot and the Dreadful Holes were huge let-downs for me. I won't even touch it now with a 30-foot pole.
 
My daughter and I are reading "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey"
 
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