Posted on 12/30/2004 1:28:19 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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.
That is most excellent. I still have my worn copies of the Narnia books. Ahh...simpler times.
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.
Try The White Pages--HUGE cast of characters.
for later response :)
"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.
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. :)
Heck, even writing the sentence "the spiritual trials of a Norwegian woman" nearly put me to sleep!
You forgot the rule!
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris
Silent America by Bill Whittle
Not much background though. No plot at all.
Years ago I found Manchester's autobiography of his service in Pacific theatre of WWII fascinating--Goodbye, Darkness
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.
Sounds like a real book.
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.
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.
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