Free Republic Book Club (1/18/08): What was your Favorite Book of 2007

1/18/08 | Tanniker Smith

[Tanniker Smith]

What was your favorite book in 2007. It didn't have to be published in 2007, as long as that's when you read it.

Was there anything that you were looking forward to that turned out to be disappointing?

My apologies for not pinging the list in a long time. I've been waiting to get my computer back from being fixed and I've been waiting ... anyway ...

[Tanniker Smith]

Starting things off: obviously, 2007 was the year of the Harry Potter finale. I enjoyed that one, and it was the best book I read last yeat. Considering all of the theories that were spun on the web, it wasn't the book that I thought it might be, but I won't hold that against Rowlings. She wrote a good book and a good finale (although that epilogue . . . ).

The other book that I enjoyed last year was "Knights of Dark Renown" by David Gemmel, who is always fun to read.

On the disappointing side of things: "Category 7" by Bill Evans, a NYC meteorologist who needed a better co-author, and "Forty Thousand in Gehenna" by C. J. Cherryh, a sci-fi novel, which seemed to ramble on pointlessly.

What was everyone else reading?

[Tanniker Smith]

FR Book Club Ping

[submarinerswife]

"Lone Survivor" ~ by Marcus Lattrell

[Borges]

‘The Rest is Noise’ - Alex Ross. Great survey of 20th century music.

[Greg F]

“Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton. Amazing, brilliant work. Written long ago but he nails most of the relativist approaches that are taking over our schools and discourse today writing 100 years ago.

[Greg F]

ping to self for later read . . .

[theDentist]

I’m still reading The Reagan Diaries.....

[Cincinnatus]

1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, by David Pietrusza. Great read, even if you’re not into presidential politics.

[Joe 6-pack]

William T. Sherman's Memoirs.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton.

If you've not already read it, try "Everlasting Man". It's available for free online through the Gutenberg project if you're too cheap to buy hardcopy.

[wizr]

The Artist’s Way....A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity,
by Julia Cameron

It is an inspiring way to search your inner hopes, wants and needs. It helped me to start journaling, and up popped poetry and finally, my love of music has prompted me to play the mandolin. Bluegrass, that is.

[matthew fuller]

America Alone- Mark Steyn

[arbee4bush]

I’m still reading The Reagan Diaries.....

So am I. I can't put it down. Some would think it's dry reading, but I love reading his little quips. I would laugh loud when he would mention the Dems (and R's!), some by name holding up things in Congress. Things were just like that back then as they are now.

I found it interesting when Reagan mentioned Ross Perot meetings about POWs. Then I read here the very next day about Perot coming out against McCain because of the POWs.

[jim from nebraska]

Atlas Shrugged long but good

[squarebarb]

Stormy Weather -— about the Depression years in north Texas.

[wyowolf]

I would go with “kite runner” and “thousand splendid suns” and Lone Survivor, all of these were incredible books, could not put them down !!

Frank

[ex-snook]

“Day of Reckoning” Patrick Buchanan.
- [How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart]

If you want to see America’s future on today’s track, read Buchanan as immigration, Iraq, and trade play out today.

[LS]

Oddly enough, Gary Taubes, "Good Calories, Bad Calories," a detailed, scientific analysis of the calorie wars culminating in a defense of the Atkins Diet.

BTW, I went on this---was convinced by the book---and promptly dropped FAT like crazy, even while eating more total calories. I'm now down about 2 pants sizes.

[YOUGOTIT]

Simon Scarrow’s “The Eagle’s Prophecy”

And Conn Iggulden’s “The Field of Sworda”

[Phantom Lord]

Semi-Automatic Card Tricks volume 6 & 7 by Steve Beam