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title: Reading List - A Christmas Carol
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# Title: A Christmas Carol
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## Author: Charles Dickens
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**Started Reading**: 2018-11-28
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-12-02
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I wanted to read the original.
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END NOTE: Written in old(er) english, I'm glad that I'd seen so many adaptations of the story and just as glad the edition I read had plenty of footnotes. I was surprised at how many direct quotes from the book have survived in the many film adaptations I've seen. As Tiny Tim has opined: "God Bless Us, Every One!"
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title: Reading List - A Clockwork Orange
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# Title: A Clockwork Orange
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## Author: Burgess, Anthony
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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**Finished Reading**: unknown
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[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange)
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Love the Movie, love the book. For different reasons. I really liked the 21st chapter (Alex's Denouement). While it almost seemed like a "too-quick-wrap-up" of the events of the preceding chapters, it rings a bit true how young men one day just "grow up" and leave childish things behind. I also respect Kubrick's take in the movie that there can be no denouement. Some men are born evil and remain that way their entire lives.
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title: Reading List - A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
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# Title: A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America
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## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
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**Started**: 2020-02-24
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**Finished**: DNF
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I can't believe I'm reading a book about politics, but it's really more about current events. UPDATE: after he was acquitted during his impeachment trial I gave up on this book. Not that's it's not true (all of it), but because there's new, more damning information released on a daily basis.
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title: Reading List - An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3)
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# Title: An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3)
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## Author: [[Scott Meyer]]
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-05-11
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Finally got back into reading this year and finished this book that I started sometime early 2019. All-in-all a good book (I read the whole thing). Todd is back and Jimmy tries to convince the gang that he's not a total dickhead. Another ending that leaves me wondering about the events in the next book.
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title: Reading List - Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1)
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# Title: Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1)
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## Author: [[Scott Meyer]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-09-11
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-11
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#readinglist/read
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Just read the first few pages and before I knew it I was on chapter 12. Feels like a less foul-mouthed version of Caverns and Creatures. Have a feeling I'll be finishing this soon.
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UPDATE: yep. Finished it in one day. A fun book with an original concept. I might have liked it better if Martin and the gang didn't pick Medieval England.
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title: Reading List - Skipping Christmas
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# Title: Skipping Christmas
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## Author: Grisham, John
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**Finished Reading**: 2016-11-11
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#readinglist/read
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Strangely, this book was almost the script for the movie. The movie added the Marvin character who I suppose was Santa at the end, but other than that the book was almost exactly the same as the movie. Not a bad book - but I'll just watch the movie every year instead of re-reading this.
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title: Reading List - Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2)
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# Title: Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2)
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## Author: [[Scott Meyer]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-03-21
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-03-27
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I just found out that "Off to be the Wizard" is a series! This is book 2 that series. I'm halfway through it and so far I'm wondering if I'm going to have a tough time keeping track of the timelines in a book so focused on time travel. UPDATE: by the end of the book there were two storylines that I just knew were going to converge. Until they didn't. Unsatisfactory ending that I suspect is just "middle-movie-in-a-trilogy" style to prepare for the third book. At least I hope so.
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