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Free Republic Book Club (1/18/08): What was your Favorite Book of 2007
1/18/08
| Tanniker Smith
Posted on 01/18/2008 8:52:39 AM PST by 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 ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2007review; book; bookclub; bookreview; books; readinglist
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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?
To: 506trooper; aberaussie; Alberta's Child; AQGeiger; arbee4bush; Ax; Brasil; Burn24; ...
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posted on
01/18/2008 8:54:19 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Geek Squad -- if you're desperate and don't need a PC for over a month, we'll get around to it.)
To: Tanniker Smith
"Lone Survivor" ~ by Marcus Lattrell
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posted on
01/18/2008 8:55:27 AM PST
by
submarinerswife
("If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
To: Tanniker Smith
‘The Rest is Noise’ - Alex Ross. Great survey of 20th century music.
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posted on
01/18/2008 8:57:23 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Tanniker Smith
“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.
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posted on
01/18/2008 8:58:18 AM PST
by
Greg F
(Romney supported the right of homosexuals to be Scout Masters in 1994.)
To: Greg F
ping to self for later read . . .
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posted on
01/18/2008 8:58:46 AM PST
by
Greg F
(Romney supported the right of homosexuals to be Scout Masters in 1994.)
To: Tanniker Smith
I’m still reading The Reagan Diaries.....
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posted on
01/18/2008 8:59:13 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Tanniker Smith
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, by David Pietrusza. Great read, even if you’re not into presidential politics.
To: Tanniker Smith
William T. Sherman's Memoirs.
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:00:55 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Greg F
"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.
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:02:35 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Tanniker Smith
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.
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:02:47 AM PST
by
wizr
("Right now, Hope Rides Alone." Sgt. E Jeffer - Remember those that fight and die for FREEDOM.)
To: Tanniker Smith
America Alone- Mark Steyn
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:03:26 AM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Fred Thompson/ John Bolton 2008)
To: theDentist
Im 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.
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01/18/2008 9:04:47 AM PST
by
arbee4bush
(Our Airman Daughter KB4W--Hero, Patriot and the Love of her mom & dads life! GO FDT!)
To: Tanniker Smith
Atlas Shrugged long but good
To: Tanniker Smith
Stormy Weather -— about the Depression years in north Texas.
To: Tanniker Smith
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
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:06:52 AM PST
by
wyowolf
("we were the winners , cause we didn't know we could fail.")
To: Tanniker Smith
“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.
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:06:56 AM PST
by
ex-snook
("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: Tanniker Smith
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.
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:09:26 AM PST
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of News)
To: Tanniker Smith
Simon Scarrow’s “The Eagle’s Prophecy”
And Conn Iggulden’s “The Field of Sworda”
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:09:40 AM PST
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: Tanniker Smith
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks volume 6 & 7 by Steve Beam
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posted on
01/18/2008 9:09:53 AM PST
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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