Books Read in 2004 (Read Any Good Books Lately?)

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[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)

[patriciaruth]

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.

[RushCrush]

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

[mlmr]

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.

[Darkwolf377]

Try The White Pages--HUGE cast of characters.

[Conan the Librarian]

for later response :)

[CWW]

"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.

[exnavychick]

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. :)

[PMCarey]

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!

[Carolinamom]

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.

[mysto]

Try The White Pages--HUGE cast of characters.
Or the Yellow Pages... it has PICTURES!

[My2Cents]

You forgot the rule!

[Joe Bonforte]

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

[Conspiracy Guy]

Not much background though. No plot at all.

[patriciaruth]

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

[RosieCotton]

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.

[Chunga]

I've been reading The Abolition Of Man, Surprised By Joy, The Problem Of Pain and The Four Loves, all by C.S. Lewis.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sounds like a real book.

[My2Cents]

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.

[knittnmom]

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.

[Radix]

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