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PBS show where people picked their favorite books. The quality of the picks are all over the map. George RR Martin (wrote Game of Thrones) picked Lord of the Rings. I've read that 5 times, it's fantastic.
OTOH, The Stand is in there, and that book is so bad I stopped reading anything from him because of it. 300+ pages and the big finish is a deus ex machina??? Arrgghh!!!
Here are some of my faves:
After You, Marco Polo, an account of a married couple in the 1950s following Marco Polo's route to China at the height of the Cold War. It is almost unknown, and it is nothing less than astonishing.
Never Cry Wolf Fall off your chair funny.
Commonwealth Saga. Perhaps the best scifi ever written.
Earthmans Burden. Remember the goofball comedies of the 60s about a young guy just starting out in his career? Everything goes wrong, until the end, where everything ends wonderfully?
The Mouse that Roared. A guy in this tiny and poor country decides to declare war on the United States. We declare war on Monday, we surrender on Wedensday, they promise an aid package on Thursday, and we are twice as rich by Friday. But it doesn't quite work out that way. America surrenders.
I'd love to keep going, Early Autumn, The Confederate Dead in the Electric Mist, Slaughterhouse 5, but my tea is wearing off, and my work here is done.
So anyway... it's a good show.
Show | The Great American Read | PBS
OTOH, The Stand is in there, and that book is so bad I stopped reading anything from him because of it. 300+ pages and the big finish is a deus ex machina??? Arrgghh!!!
Here are some of my faves:
After You, Marco Polo, an account of a married couple in the 1950s following Marco Polo's route to China at the height of the Cold War. It is almost unknown, and it is nothing less than astonishing.
Never Cry Wolf Fall off your chair funny.
Commonwealth Saga. Perhaps the best scifi ever written.
Earthmans Burden. Remember the goofball comedies of the 60s about a young guy just starting out in his career? Everything goes wrong, until the end, where everything ends wonderfully?
The Mouse that Roared. A guy in this tiny and poor country decides to declare war on the United States. We declare war on Monday, we surrender on Wedensday, they promise an aid package on Thursday, and we are twice as rich by Friday. But it doesn't quite work out that way. America surrenders.
I'd love to keep going, Early Autumn, The Confederate Dead in the Electric Mist, Slaughterhouse 5, but my tea is wearing off, and my work here is done.
So anyway... it's a good show.
Show | The Great American Read | PBS
