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Recommendations Wanted - Good Books for Christmas Gifts
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| 10/13/06
| randita
Posted on 12/13/2006 6:38:44 PM PST by randita
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Two I enjoyed this year were Mayflower and Undaunted Courage -- especially for history buffs.
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:38:51 PM PST
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randita
To: randita
"Future Jihad" by Walid Phares. Everyone please read and pass on to others.
To: randita
1776 by David McCullough, it will make you proud...if you are an American.
To: randita
"Future Jihad" by Walid Phares. Everyone please read and pass on to others.
To: randita
I can highly recommend, "The Kite Runner", "Life of Pi", and "Shadow Divers".
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:40:57 PM PST
by
modhom
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:42:31 PM PST
by
knews_hound
(Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
To: randita
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:42:36 PM PST
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: rovenstinez; randita
1776 by David McCullough, it will make you proud...if you are an American.I second this. Also "Undaunted Courage."
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12/13/2006 6:42:49 PM PST
by
Bahbah
(Regev, Goldwasser and Shalit, we are praying for you)
To: randita
Anything by Brock and Bodie Thoene
Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame
by Michael S. Class
www.MagicPictureFrame.com
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:43:23 PM PST
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: randita
Ragamuffin Gospel for adults.
Chronicles of Narnia for kids.
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:46:17 PM PST
by
proudpapa
(of three.)
To: randita
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin was excellent.
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:50:32 PM PST
by
Zeroisanumber
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: randita
For something different and fun:
West River Waltz --Cowboy Poetry by D.W. Groethe
(scroll down the page).
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posted on
12/13/2006 6:50:39 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: knews_hound
I second "America Alone".
I'd also like to recommend "Guests of the Ayatollah" by Mark Bowden and "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele
To: randita
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The Second World War by Winston Churchill
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Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatsky and Ammon Shea (a collection of archaic curses, insults, and obscenities, it's the funnest lexicon ever written)
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Art: A New History by Paul Johnson
For LOTR fans: The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales by JRR Tolkien
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12/13/2006 6:59:26 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: randita
This fall my wife an I have been buying big volumns of Poetry and resolving to read extensively in this area of neglect for us over the next year. A daunting task requiring help.
Therefore, one of our Christmas gifts (a major one) to ourselves was the Oxford English Dictionary, Shorter Edition. Now keep in mind the the full Oxford is twenty volumns. The shorter is two volumns each the size of the unabridged dictionaries you used to see in your high school library. It is a luxury we have always wanted and finally decided to purchase. We took the Barnes and Noble Card, a Barnes and Noble Coupon and hit them on our personal discount shopping day because it is an outlandish price otherwise.
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12/13/2006 7:09:01 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
To: randita
Political books: "America Alone" by Mark Steyn, "Party of Death" by Ramesh Ponnuru, anything by Bill Sammon.
Fiction: (Scary) "Prayers for the Assassin" by Robert Ferrigno, (Romance, history) "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon, (Merlin, English fictional history) "The Crystal Cave" and "The Hollow Hills" by Mary Stewart. (I love anything by Mary Stewart)
Inspirational: "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World", can't remember the author, and "Everyday Grace" by Marianne Williamson
Happy reading!
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12/13/2006 7:40:01 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(Vote Democrat: it's easier than thinking.)
To: randita
I received, two Christmases ago The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods. While both informative and enlightening, it was also an easy, entertaining and quick read.
Im also a fan of Historical Biographer, Alison Weir, author of, among others, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Children of Henry VIII, The Life of Elizabeth I, and Eleanor of Aquitaine, all of which Ive read and enjoyed.
The last work of fiction I really, really enjoyed was Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
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12/13/2006 7:46:10 PM PST
by
Caramelgal
(Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.)
To: randita
To: randita
If you're into the fantasy genre, this year I have re-read the Drizzt series, starting from the Dark Elf Trilogy and all the way through The Hunter's Blades trilogy. Also, I am currently awaiting the next installment of A Song Of Ice And Fire, "A Dance With Dragons". There's not much non-antasy that grips me; if I want historical reading I crack open my history books, as I am a history major.
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12/13/2006 10:24:53 PM PST
by
arderkrag
(I MUD. What's that? Find out: www.mudconnector.com, or if you mud, try out: 24.227.13.66 port 7000.)
To: randita
I just finished "Turning Angel" by Greg Iles, and I loved it.
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