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Books Read in 2004 (Read Any Good Books Lately?)
right now | 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)

Also
Graphic Novels: (I don't normally get to read these, but I found a stack at the local library and went through them!)



TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: biography; books; fantasy; fiction; nonfiction; readinglist; scifi; series; unfortunate
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To: Conspiracy Guy
It's like each character has an unrelated story.

That's what I liked about The Oxford American Dictionary. They give the family history and you can see the old ancestoral connections between all the characters.

41 posted on 12/30/2004 1:44:21 PM PST by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: Darkwolf377

That is most excellent. I still have my worn copies of the Narnia books. Ahh...simpler times.


42 posted on 12/30/2004 1:44:40 PM PST by RushCrush (It's called Free Speech, and it's what we do.)
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To: don-o

Uh, some say the whole work is a fiction.



This new edition has some new informaion

Who says it is a work of fiction.

My Jewish grandfather said that The Diary of Anne Frank was fiction too.


43 posted on 12/30/2004 1:44:51 PM PST by mlmr (Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Chri)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Try The White Pages--HUGE cast of characters.


44 posted on 12/30/2004 1:44:56 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: Tanniker Smith

for later response :)


45 posted on 12/30/2004 1:45:04 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

"His Excellency" by Joe Ellis. A great biography about George Washington. Let's you know just how precarious the American Revolution was and how attitudes about war are predictable.


46 posted on 12/30/2004 1:45:18 PM PST by CWW
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To: Tanniker Smith

Let's see, in the last six months it's been:

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
The Other Boleyn Girl, Phillipa Gregory
The Queen's Fool, Phillipa Gregory
The Wolves of Calla, Stephen King
Song of Susannah, Stephen King
The Dark Tower, Stephen King
It, Stephen King
From a Buick 8, Stephen King
All the Harry Potter books,(5 total) J.K. Rowling
Mary, Called Magdalene, Margaret George
Mary, Queen of Scots, Margaret George
Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Margaret George
I, Elizabeth, Rosalind Miles
Simple Simon, Ryne Douglas Pearson
Monster, Jonathan Kellerman
A Cold Heart, Jonathan Kellerman

There are others, but that's all I can remember right now. As you can see, I've been on a historical fiction kick lately. :)


47 posted on 12/30/2004 1:45:24 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: RosieCotton
My wife loves "Kristin Lavransdatter", and she wants me to read it. I haven't had a taste for fiction these last few years and I'm afraid a book about the spiritual trials of a Norwegian woman will book me to sleep.

Heck, even writing the sentence "the spiritual trials of a Norwegian woman" nearly put me to sleep!

48 posted on 12/30/2004 1:45:43 PM PST by PMCarey
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To: patriciaruth
I enjoyed the excellent writing, plotting, and characterizations in new writer Sabin Willette's The Deal and The Betrayal. I noticed on Amazon that he has a third book out, a parody.
49 posted on 12/30/2004 1:45:53 PM PST by Carolinamom
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To: Darkwolf377
Try The White Pages--HUGE cast of characters.
Or the Yellow Pages... it has PICTURES!
50 posted on 12/30/2004 1:46:46 PM PST by mysto
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To: writer33

You forgot the rule!


51 posted on 12/30/2004 1:46:55 PM PST by My2Cents (Is it OK to wish people a "Happy New Year"?)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Three books I think everyone on FR should read:

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris

Silent America by Bill Whittle

52 posted on 12/30/2004 1:47:01 PM PST by Joe Bonforte
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To: Darkwolf377

Not much background though. No plot at all.


53 posted on 12/30/2004 1:47:16 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Pray for the millions of lives disrupted by tsunami.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I also read William Manchester's "American Caesar" (MacArthur's life story) over the Christmas holiday.

Years ago I found Manchester's autobiography of his service in Pacific theatre of WWII fascinating--Goodbye, Darkness

54 posted on 12/30/2004 1:47:31 PM PST by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: PMCarey

It's an incredible commentary on human nature, in addition to a spectacular, descriptive work of fiction.

There...does that put you to sleep? Heh...

It really is an amazing book, but at - what, 1200 pages? - it's something of a monumental undertaking.


55 posted on 12/30/2004 1:47:48 PM PST by RosieCotton (He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. - GKC)
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To: Tanniker Smith
I've been reading The Abolition Of Man, Surprised By Joy, The Problem Of Pain and The Four Loves, all by C.S. Lewis.
56 posted on 12/30/2004 1:47:49 PM PST by Chunga
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To: CWW

Sounds like a real book.


57 posted on 12/30/2004 1:47:51 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Pray for the millions of lives disrupted by tsunami.)
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To: Warriormom

A Table in the Presence was excellent! I literally teared up at certain points in the book, because specific things we prayed for as our troops were rolling through Iraq were recorded as answered in Lt. Cash's book.


58 posted on 12/30/2004 1:48:08 PM PST by My2Cents (Is it OK to wish people a "Happy New Year"?)
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To: RushCrush

Some of the Chronicles were made into movies - http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%22Chronicles%20of%20Narnia%3A;tt=on;nm=on;mx=20 has a listing. Some were shown on our PBS affiliate. We thought they were well done.


59 posted on 12/30/2004 1:48:12 PM PST by knittnmom
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


60 posted on 12/30/2004 1:48:23 PM PST by Radix (Of all the Tag Lines in all the world, this one walks into mine.)
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