"When I was your age, TV was called books." -- The Princess Bride

Excerpts and Poems

Recommended Movies

Action/Adventure: Die Hard
                  Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
                  James Bond: Live and Let Die
Animation:        Charlie Brown Holiday Specials
                  Disney: Aladdin, Mulan
                  Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave
Comedy:           Better Off Dead
                  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
                  The Princess Bride
                  The [Return | Revenge] of the Pink Panther [Strikes Again]
                  Trading Places
                  What's Up Doc?
Musical:          Grease
                  The Sound of Music
Misc:             The American President
                  Contact
                  Dune
                  Excalibur
                  The Full Monty
                  Ladyhawke
                  Star Trek II-IV (and maybe assorted others)
                  Star Wars IV-VI
                  Wargames
                  Willow

Ender's Game, Snow Crash, Harry Potter, and "On my list"

Recommended Fantasy (or Science Fiction) Books/Series

Rank, Title, Author, # in Series, # of Times Read, Comments

 1) The Lord of the Rings   J.R.R. Tolkien     4 1 (Including The Hobbit)
 2) A Man of his Word       Dave Duncan        4 3
 3) The Sword of Truth      Terry Goodkind     2 1 (1 and 2 only)
 4) The Belgariad           David Eddings      5 3
 5) A Handful of Men        Dave Duncan        4 2
 6) The Riftwar Saga        Raymond E. Feist   4 2 (1-2 twice, 1-4 once)
 7) Dragonlance Saga        Weis and Hickman   3 1
 8) The Mallorean           David Eddings      5 2
 9) Apprentice Adept        Piers Anthony      7 2 (1-3 twice, 1-7 once)
10) Dune                    Frank Herbert      1 1 (Book 1 only - SF)
11) Ender's Game            Orson Scott Card   1 1 (Book 1 only (for now) - SF)
12) Snow Crash              Neal Stephenson    1 1 (SF)
13) Harry Potter            J. K. Rowling      4 1 (Young audience, but good)
14) The Seventh Sword       Dave Duncan        4 1

On my list, roughly in order:

Goodkind   - Books 5+ of The Sword of Truth
Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Williams   - Otherland
Jordan     - The Eye of the World
Feist      - Books following above in Riftware Saga (Empire books)
Card       - Books following Ender's Game

Recommended Albums

A Cappella:       When Mama's Not Around          Off the Beat (UPenn Group)
                  My, I'm Large                   The Bobs
                  The Nylons                      The Nylons
Classical:        Chiller                         Various
                  TV Classics                     Various
Dance:            The Bridge                      Ace of Base
                  First Harvest 1984-92           Alphaville
                  Massive Luxury Overdose         Army of Lovers
                  Some Great Reward               Depeche Mode
                  Europop                         Eiffel 65
                  Chorus                          Erasure
                  Cowboy                          Erasure
                  Erasure                         Erasure
                  Pop!                            Erasure
                  The Rebirth of Abba 1992        Erasure
                  Just One Look                   Harajuku
                  Move to Move                    Kon Kan
                  The Different Story             Peter Schilling
                  Joyride                         Roxette
Electric Violin:  Vanessa-Mae: The Violin Player  Vanessa Mae
Electronic:       The Man Machine                 Kraftwerk
Holiday:          Christmas                       Manheim Steamroller
                  A Charlie Brown Christmas       Vince Guaraldi Trio
Humor/Parody:     Weird Al Yankovic in 3-D        Weird Al Yankovic
                  Christmas Unleashed             Jingle Dogs
International:    A Taste of Israel               Various
Jazz:             Compact Jazz                    Stan Getz
New Age:          Rendez-Vous                     Jean-Michel Jarre
                  Deep Breakfast                  Ray Lynch
                  Force Majeure                   Tangerine Dream
                  Out of Silence                  Yanni
Rock:             ABBA Greatest Hits Vol. 2       ABBA
                  Bat Out of Hell                 Meat Loaf
                  Diesel And Dust                 Midnight Oil
                  Flood                           They Might Be Giants
Show:             Chess                           Andersson, Rice, & Ulvaeus
                  Les Miserables                  Boublil & Schonberg
                  Cats                            Andrew Lloyd Webber
                  The Phantom of the Opera        Andrew Lloyd Webber
Soundtrack:       The Lion King                   Hans Zimmer
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