Posted on 12/30/2004 1:28:19 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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...
You are so right. Unless you have experienced it, as we have, you can't fully understand it. We have been truly blessed!
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.
Everything Manchester wrote was excellent.
I highly recommend his bio of Churchill, "The Last Lion."
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!
*marking my place*
The MacArthur story was "warts and all" if you know what I mean.
James Bradley wrote that book, too.
Peter Jackson's special effects and props company is working on the Narnia films.
Cool.
Here's two that I did enjoy.
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
1,300 lives lost in a ferry boat fire. Until the WTC attacks of 9-11, the largest loss of life in a single incident in NYC.
A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
A young man from NYC overcomes great odds to fight for his country during WWII & Korea.
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.
The first 3 books were made into movies and are available on VHS/DVD
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.
"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.
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.
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.
This taxes the memory.
Well, here are a few that stand out in my mind.
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.
I'm thinking I read about that in an article. Father-daughter incest, right?
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