12-15-2004, 01:51 PM | #1 |
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Christmas books
Recommend your favourite seasonal Christmassy novels, poems, plays, whatever, here
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
12-15-2004, 01:54 PM | #2 |
Elf Lord
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here are my two favorites:
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas: http://www.bfsmedia.com/MAS/Dylan/Christmas.html and A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote sorry I couldn't find the text for the latter online.... my local public radio station airs both every year, and anyway, they really should be heard, not read |
12-15-2004, 02:37 PM | #3 |
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Oh, I think it's called Red Ryder or Red Rider.....I have two copies about 3000 miles from here (no really) so I can't be sure.....It's about young boy who asks Santa for a bike, a red ryder (named after a sci-fi character). Well, Santa is hard of hearing and he gives him the bike, but do to a misunderstanding the bike is fused into a tree in the front lawn...Great Pictures!!!! Kids always love it...Sorry about not remembering the name correctly, I was hoping that with a good description someone else could play "smartypants" and help me out with remembering it.
Happy Holidays, Mooters
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12-15-2004, 05:37 PM | #4 |
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The movie is known as THE CHRISTMAS STORY and is my favorite Christmas movie. Some channels will run it continuously for 24 hours around Christmas. I spent many a present wrapping chuckling over the story. And my copy is still boxed so I can't help with the original book title, Earthbound!
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My favourite book is "The Polar Express", by Chris Van Allsburg.
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12-15-2004, 08:12 PM | #6 |
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I love "The Poler Express", too. "Twas the Night before Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" are musts too.
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12-18-2004, 01:34 AM | #8 |
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I always used to read the Nutcracker, by E.T.A. Hoffman... I believe. It's a bit more involved than the ballet would make you believe, but it's one of my old favourites. It's a pity I don't have it with me actually...*sigh*
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12-18-2004, 01:38 AM | #9 |
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I like "A Christmas Carol".
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12-19-2004, 12:43 AM | #10 |
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Well, I love the first chapter of JOHN (as in St. John), and there are the ever popular Matthew and Luke, also, as separate accounts of the conception, in utero experiences, and birth of Jesus aka the Christ!
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12-25-2004, 11:38 PM | #11 |
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Well, Inked, I guess those are the originals! I also like "A Christmas Carol" and enjoyed Jan Karon's "Shepherds Abiding" this year.
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