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| Tanniker Smith
Posted on 12/30/2004 1:28:19 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
2004 -- It was a year of catching up on a number of series books.
And it was probably the most books I've read in a long time (even if 12 of them were Lemony Snicket)
- The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Broken Blade, Ann Marston
- The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
- The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket
- The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket
- The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
- The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket
- Cloudbearer's Shadow, Ann Marston
- Rogue Pirate, John Gregory Betancourt
- The King of Shadows, Ann Marston
- The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
- The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket
- The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket
- The Carniverous Carnerval, Lemony Snicket
- Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity
- Maybe (Maybe Not), Robert Fulgrum
- The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket
- The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket
- Eats, Shoots, & Leaves, Lynne Truss
- Tom Clancy's Net Force: Night Moves
- Tom Clancy's Net Force: Breaking Point
- The Kingdom of Infinite Numbers: A Field Guide, Bryan Bunch
- X-Files: Whirlwind, (does it matter who it's by?)
- Tom Clancy's Net Force: Point of Impact
- The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket
- Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cybernation (in this one, the title actually had something to do with the story)
- Vulcan!, Kathleen Sky
- Stars & Stripes Forever, Harry Harrison
- Stars & Stripes In Peril, Harry Harrison
- Stars & Stripes Triumphant, Harry Harrison
Also
Graphic Novels: (I don't normally get to read these, but I found a stack at the local library and went through them!)
- Batman: Terror (good)
- Tales of the Slayers (very good, it was worth picking rather than the Buffy books)
- Batman: Child of Dreams (pretty good, but pretty long)
- Spiderman: The Death of Gwen Stacey (excellent -- even for reprints)
- Spyboy/Young Justice (ick)
- Batman: The Arrow, the Ring & the Bat (good story, but the splash pages were annoying)
TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: biography; books; fantasy; fiction; nonfiction; readinglist; scifi; series; unfortunate
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To: patriciaruth
um... no
All I know is there is a movie about the Chronicles of Narnia in the works as well as a few other good stories being made into films...
Another Heinlein... haven't heard...
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posted on
12/31/2004 12:17:30 AM PST
by
GeronL
(I am NOT the real bin Laden)
To: My2Cents
You are so right. Unless you have experienced it, as we have, you can't fully understand it. We have been truly blessed!
To: Tanniker Smith
"The New Covenant Unveiled," David Wilkerson.
Re-read
"Summer of '42" by Herman Raucher for the first time in 29 years. Still made me cry.
"Band of Brothers," Stephen Ambrose.
"Master and Commander," Patrick O'Brian (just read the first one, only 20 1/2 to go).
"Arrogance," Bernie Goldberg.
"The Blessed Life," by a pastor in Dallas (can't recall his name right now).
"Total Money Makeover," Dave Ramsey
"When Character Was King," Peggy Noonan.
A few others I cannot recall right now.
I will pull the plug on our DirectTV on February 1, so I plan on doing a lot of reading after that.
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posted on
12/31/2004 7:03:42 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Overtaxed host organism for the parasitical State)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I also read William Manchester's "American Caesar" (MacArthur's life story) over the Christmas holiday. Very book biography. Everything Manchester wrote was excellent.
I highly recommend his bio of Churchill, "The Last Lion."
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posted on
12/31/2004 7:09:44 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Overtaxed host organism for the parasitical State)
To: patriciaruth
I was a bit disappointed with the TV Narnia programs, especially the portrayal of Aslan. What I wouldn't give to see what a Peter Jackson would do with the Chronicles of Narnia!
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posted on
12/31/2004 7:34:26 AM PST
by
RosieCotton
(He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
To: Skooz
The MacArthur story was "warts and all" if you know what I mean.
To: patriciaruth
James Bradley wrote that book, too.
To: Tanniker Smith
Zell Miller's book "A NATIONAL PARTY NO MORE"
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posted on
12/31/2004 7:43:29 AM PST
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: Unam Sanctam
Peter Jackson's special effects and props company is working on the Narnia films.
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posted on
12/31/2004 10:25:25 AM PST
by
My2Cents
(Is it OK to wish people a "Happy New Year"?)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
12/31/2004 11:18:41 AM PST
by
patriciaruth
(They are all Mike Spanns)
To: Tanniker Smith
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posted on
01/02/2005 5:05:52 AM PST
by
csvset
To: csvset
I'll have to check out the Gen. Slocum book. I have to admit, even though I've lived in NYC all my life and spent a fair amount of time at the South Street Seaport, I don't remember having heard of the Gen Slocum before the 100-year anniversary special and articles early last year.
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posted on
01/02/2005 3:22:34 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: RushCrush
The first 3 books were made into movies and are available on VHS/DVD
To: My2Cents
I also read Case for a Creator this year. Great book. Also read Case for Christ and Case for Faith. I highly recommend all of them.
To: massconservative
My favorite quote from "Case for Creator" --
"The evidence for Darwinism is not only grossly inadequate, it's systematically distorted. I'm convinced that sometime in the not-to-distant future, people will look back in amazement and say, 'How could anyone have believed this?' Darwinism is merely materialistic philosophy masquerading as science." -- Jonathan Wells, Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology, specializing in vertebrate embryology, 1994, from UC Berkeley.
And then this quote (not in the book) is another favorite --
"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has." -- Malcolm Muggeridge.
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posted on
02/24/2005 7:27:50 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Friends stab you from the front." -- Oscar Wilde)
To: Tanniker Smith
One book I read was Pearl Buck's ''The Good Earth'' written back in the 3Os or 4Os. It won the Pulitzer. Movie is pretty good too.
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posted on
02/24/2005 7:31:47 PM PST
by
hispanarepublicana
(I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez was't cool.)
To: RosieCotton
i used to feel that way too. so for that reason i didn't read any fiction. But when i began to read fiction, i realized i often learn something meaningful from those books as well.
To: hispanarepublicana; My2Cents; Tanniker Smith; RosieCotton; cyborg; Tax-chick; SunkenCiv
Wow.
This taxes the memory.
Well, here are a few that stand out in my mind.
FLYING OVER 96th STREET:
A Memoir Of An East Harlem White Boy
-by Thomas L. Webber
DRY
-Augusten Burroghs
COERCING VIRTUE
The Worldwide Rule of Judges
-by Robert Bork
The Anti-Chomsky Reader
-edited by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
BUSH COUNTRY:
How Dubya Became A Great President While Driving Liberals Insane
-by John Podhoretz
THE KISS:
A Memoir
-by Kathryn Harrison
In addition to some of the other great novels that were lying on my bookshelf, e.g., Don Quixote, Queen, among others, which I finally got around to completing.
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
THE KISS: A Memoir -by Kathryn HarrisonI'm thinking I read about that in an article. Father-daughter incest, right?
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posted on
02/25/2005 4:01:19 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Donate to FRIENDS OF SCOUTING and ruin a liberal's day!)
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