What are you reading?

Which which?
Do we have a publisher?
An Author?
ISBN # ? (**)

Or is this just some political drivel best diverted to FHOP_P?
Seriously....
I have 4 credits in my Audible account that I'm itching to spend on something!


(**) The International Standard Book Number is a numeric commercial book identifier used to identify REAL published publications instead of those found in places like Joe McCarthy's briefcase.

 

Sold out right now they say. Not sure what you are talking about. They are books, and they sell them.
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Paperback)– Shop The Heritage Foundation.

Amazon of course has it too, on audio, paperback, any way you want to read it.

 

Since this is about what are you reading, I’m trying to think about what is fiction or non fiction as it was brought up. I can see now there are forces out there that want to wordsmith project 2025 as fiction. So is it fiction when an engineer designs a new wheel bearing with a research paper, submits it, but the design is not used? I think not fiction.

 

Maybe try these on for size? Two of the editions have been less easy for me to find; maybe somebody else can complete the list.

Mandate for Leadership (Heritage Foundation)

• 9780891950288 (1980)
• 9780891950363 edition II (1984)
• 9780891950455 edition III (1988)
• 9780891950646 edition IV (1997)
• edition V (2000)
• 9780891951148 edition VI (2005)
• edition VII (2016)
• 9780891951728 edition VIII (2020)
• 9780891951742 edition IX (2023) (a/k/a "Project 2025")

 

i read this article, not a book:

project-2025-author-russell-vought-undercover-reporters-1235081241

 

Looking for it now.
Kinda hard to find in audio but there are five books in Audible telling me what I should think about it.

Like everything else around here lately, the real life version is "a little different" than what people "are saying" so I might have to pick through the actual thing and maybe have an informed opinion about something that very VERY few people have actually read.
Print is harder than audio for me because it's hard to read and drive.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

I don't think the mean orange dude has ever read an 885-page book in his whole life.

I'll pay for an audio version....but the print version is free if you have a PC.
My curiosity is getting piqued.....

 

I remember that feeling from the day I finished reading the Mueller report and then compared what Bill Barr had written about it.

 

Or the Hurd transcript and what the 'fair and balanced' media was saying about THAT.....
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf
(Word for word audio version blocked because........well, anyway....)

 

Needed my palate cleansed after about a month of reading about digital radio modes.
Went through about half of this while pressure washing yesterday.
Roberts is one of my 'Snickers after a gym workout' authors.

Decent if somewhat predictable story.
Can't wait to see ho.....
Oh.
Nevermind.
I already know.

 

Going to contaminate my palate:

I hated western civ in college, but as I get closer to death, I find where we came from, how we got here, and where we’re going much more interesting

 

History and implications of Western civilization must be among those topics most written about. I could not imagine recommending a favorite version.

It shares difficulties with many others as a university topic. Structuring courses for memorization of answers to exam questions is the easy way. Teaching how aspects influenced the future through time is more difficult. As is grading of exams that ask students to develop their own synthetic insights.

So it is easy to see how this course, such courses, can leave bad tastes in students' mouths. And are more enjoyable as non fictional reading in a setting where there are no tests. The only test is for reader to synthesize their own insights.

 

it is fascinating. first few chapters are about what we know of prehistoric man, or whatever you want to call him. next up, the beginnings of civilization.
but can a book be interesting and make you sleepy at the same time? i'm trying to take it at 10-20 pages a day.
the auther is very clear on what we know, what we don't know, and what theories surround all of that, and how they change over time as more discoveries are made archeologically

 

I find the Bible to be fascinating, like “let there be light” seems to be far ahead of knowledge 6000 years ago or whenever it was written. I admit I have ignorance about when or who it was written by. I know I have been in groups studying that, but forgot.
Of course I read it in an English translation. From the Greek I guess, as people learn Greek just to be able to read the Bible written in it.
Or Adam and Eve in the Garden. It’s particularly relevant to human history and in my view the USA right now.
I think it has to be taken figuratively with the idea it’s a very old text written to tell others who can’t read. Like man is made in God’s image makes sense to me. There was a spark of something that allows humans to think further, more than just tool making, so image is the mind, not the physical ape like body. Evolution from a little rodent like mammal is possible, it isn’t contradictory.

 

The potter’s hand…..

I’m not a ‘young earth’ Baptist - one of the areas that I am not in complete agreement with some of my church family.
I glibly refer to as not limiting the Almighty to a six day work week.
I also like to remind them about the first public miracle and who requested it….because….Baptists.

Currently reading a little Baldacci while I look for an audio version of this much talked about but evidently not widely read Project 2025.
If I HAVE TO I suppose I can knock out about 50-100 pages a day for a couple of weeks….maybe.

 

When you're ready, would you consider posting a top-five or top-ten of things from that book that in your view have been least accurately reported?

 

The biblical creation story, the Sumerian creation story, all very interesting.
But I’m most interested in living as Jesus taught, or at least trying my best

 

I’m not sure I can accurately quantify what’s been reported - but I will let you know.
I’m involved in a ULP strike at the moment - meaning I’m working like crazy to catch up on all of the things that I have been putting off while I was working full time.
Let m see if I can verify that the PDF that I have can be rendered into a kindle-friendly doc.

I will start a thread in the very near future, but Project 2025’s web site has a few cites…..
PolitiFact | Project 2025 would not end gay marriage, but it calls heterosexual families 'ideal'

False claim Project 2025 defines 'only valid family' | Fact check

 

Regarding books made into movies, one that always comes to me is No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. I stumbled on him at the library, first reading Outer Dark, then mowing through a batch. Without exception they were complex, insightful. Suttree was amazing, ditto for the southwest dusters.

But No Country For Old Men I couldn't fathom. I'd seen the movie, and then reading the book it repeatedly occurred to me: if I hadn't seen the movie I would have been lost.

Our son passed on a Kindle with most everything he's written, and it included some short stories, screen/stage plays. Based on that, I suspect No Country For Old Men was dashed off, a screen play in all but format.

Anyway, if you want to wander through an author's collection, CM's a good pick. Somewhat similar to Peter Straub, who died recently. Geez, see Cormac just died as well.

 

A novel dedicated to the brave, courageous and patriotic women who answered the call of their country in the Vietnam War

 

Somehow I stumbled onto this movie before reading the book, and I must admit that Hollowood did a masterful job with it - even if they did pull the suppressed shotgun and a few otha things out of their colons.
But hey...
Hollywood.

Haven't been tempted by CM since - but then this has been something of a busy couple of years.

I have it on my phone.
I'll be reading this one fairly soon.