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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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John M. Jackson
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| My biggest problem with the Bathroom Reader books is that I can't just read them in the prescribed place and end up pushing right through them. But I thoroughly enjoyed this book, particularly the sections that discuss bizarre shows that had very sho ...more | |
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| The Road just may be my favorite book. If not, it's somewhere in the top three. The film, which follows the book pretty faithfully, sits somewhere in my top 10 favorites. I just happened to see this graphic novel adaptation at the library yesterday a ...more | |
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| Having already read The Complete W-CSSH, I wasn't sure there would be anything here that I hadn't already read, but this compilation has a lot of content not in the earlier one. (Or maybe I've already forgotten what was in the earlier compilation?) A ...more | |
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| The various film versions of a "A Christmas Carol" are among my all-time favorite movies, particularly the 1970 musical. For years, I've been meaning to read Dickens's novella, arguably among the most socially influential stories ever written, to see ...more | |
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| I read just two juvenile series when I was a kid: the Hardys and the Three Investigators. I figured all the rest were poor knock-offs so never bothered to try them. Over the past few years, I've tried several others and have been pleasantly surprised ...more | |
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| All I can say is: I wish I'd started reading these books much earlier. And I wish I'd bought a few for my dad--he would've loved them. Well, I can also say that the Bathroom Readers' Institute never lets the facts get in the way of telling a good sto ...more | |
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| Rereading this series after several decades, I've been disappointed time and again as an older adult by the Hardy Boys books. This series entry was an exception. It's not great and perhaps not quite worthy of the 4-star rating, but compared with many ...more | |
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| To my embarrassment, it's not often that I read serious fiction. Looking back through my reads of the past two years, I see only a couple of novels that would qualify as even semi-serious. (When I want serious, I gravitate toward non-fiction.) A frie ...more | |
