Baker's Dozen : Books Edition

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A Book You Gave Your Significant Other

1. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
2. Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
3. The Redhead series - Alice Clayton
4. Love Poems - Pablo Neruda
5. The Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
6. Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
8. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
9. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
10. The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
11. The Turning Point - Malcolm Gladwell
12. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón


Bring it home, Tony.

 

[Haggises]

A Book You Gave Your Significant Other

1. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
2. Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
3. The Redhead series - Alice Clayton
4. Love Poems - Pablo Neruda
5. The Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland
6. Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
8. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
9. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
10. The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems
11. The Turning Point - Malcolm Gladwell
12. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13. The Times Atlas of the World


I guess the rest are miserable cheapskates

 

[Haggises]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill

 

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A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[TexLaw]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee

 

[dpm802]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.

 

[Haggises]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al

 

[Haggises]

4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.

For a modest fee, I can get you my mother in law's autobiography signed "with love n hugs to dpm802" if you want.

 

[dpm802]

For a modest fee, I can get you my mother in law's autobiography signed "with love n hugs to dpm802" if you want.

When I was growing up, the father next-door self-published a book of poetry, and he autographed it for us.

The original hard-copy got lost down through the years, but I downloaded a Kindle copy when he announced it on Facebook.
Reading it brought back a lot of memories, since I could relate first-hand to many of the people and events he put into rhyme.

 

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A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al
6. Complete Sandman Slipcase Set - Neil Gaiman

 

[Haggises]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al
6. Complete Sandman Slipcase Set - Neil Gaiman
7. Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto - Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay

 

[Guestabc]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al
6. Complete Sandman Slipcase Set - Neil Gaiman
7. Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto - Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
8. 1st Edition set of the Skylark Series - E.E. Doc Smith

 

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A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al
6. Complete Sandman Slipcase Set - Neil Gaiman
7. Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto - Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
8. 1st Edition set of the Skylark Series - E.E. Doc Smith
9. Riverside Shakespeare

 

[Haggises]

A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al
6. Complete Sandman Slipcase Set - Neil Gaiman
7. Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto - Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
8. 1st Edition set of the Skylark Series - E.E. Doc Smith
9. Riverside Shakespeare
10. Lord Of The rings First Edition Set (only 4 bucks shipping!)

 

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10. Lord Of The rings First Edition Set (only 4 bucks shipping!)

[MENTION=52454]Haggises[/MENTION]

Listening to the audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring, read by Robert Inglis, I was inspired to re-watch the entire trilogy of films. There is so much in the book that is missing from the film, the adaptation is borderline criminal. Omitting the entire trek through the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wight was a mistake.

 

[Haggises]

@Haggises

Listening to the audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring, read by Robert Inglis, I was inspired to re-watch the entire trilogy of films. There is so much in the book that is missing from the film, the adaptation is borderline criminal. Omitting the entire trek through the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wight was a mistake.

I would much rather have had one Hobbit and nine LoTR movies. I love the LoTR movies, they are very well done, but so much wrongness, and too much Arwen. My biggest miss was the Palantir section and the denigration of Saruman in general.

 

[Ad Astra]

Nevermind the "dwarf tossing" adaptation in the LOTR movie- unforgivable, period.

JRR spun over that!


AA

 

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I would much rather have had one Hobbit and nine LoTR movies. I love the LoTR movies, they are very well done, but so much wrongness, and too much Arwen. My biggest miss was the Palantir section and the denigration of Saruman in general.

1 Hobbit movie, for sure. I won't forgive Peter Jackson for what he did to that story, and they could easily have done 6 movies, as there were 6 "books" in the 3 volumes. The scouring of the Shire deserved a place in the films (Christopher Lee thought so too).

Nevermind the "dwarf tossing" adaptation in the LOTR movie- unforgivable, period.

JRR spun over that!


AA

That was referenced twice. In the Fellowship, Gimli would not allow himself to be tossed across the stair gap at the exit of Moria, and then suggested it to Aragorn at Helm's Deep.

 

[Doc4]

The Scouring of the Shire was needed ... and the complete transformation of the Ent motivation to attack Isengard is "hollywood" in the worst sense of the word.

 

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A book you would like to be given as a present

1. History of the English Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill
2. The Complete History of Middle Earth - Christopher Tolkien and J.R.R. Tolkien
3. On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
4. A First-Edition, Autographed by the Author copy of ANYTHING.
5. The Geology Of Pennsylvania - Charles Schulz et al
6. Complete Sandman Slipcase Set - Neil Gaiman
7. Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto - Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
8. 1st Edition set of the Skylark Series - E.E. Doc Smith
9. Riverside Shakespeare
10. Lord Of The rings First Edition Set (only 4 bucks shipping!)
11. The Complete Henry Bech (Everyman Library) - John Updike