Thanks for the correction, and I'm so chuffed that someone else knows that book! My best friend and I love it but I find no one generally has hear of him.

Full name is George Washington Plunkitt, btw.

Now that I think about it, my Plunkitt fangirliness has a lot to do with why I like Mayor Daley so much...

but I find no one generally has heard of him

Yeah, I only heard about him because I have the same last name, spelled with the more conventional -ett ending.

Um, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Prisoner of Zenda.

And TSP is anti-Semitic as HELL, very embarrassing. Let us all pretend the last chapter doesn't exist.

Mrs. Warrens Profession OK -play, but also published.

Ooh - Kidnapped and The Black Arrow, Three Musketeers

Hmm - love 20,000 leagues under the sea when I was 11. I wonder If I'd enjoy it today. Don't remember it well enough to rec or not.

Umm - hate to confess- Mary Poppins One really horribly racist chapter you want will want to skip though - the one where she takes the kids to visit four racist stereotypes representing four directions. If you can get past that - Mary Poppins in the book was really a very sinister figure.

Another childhood book At the Back of the North Wind. Have not read it as an adult, so don't know if it as a great a weepy for grownups as for kids. [On edit - a really sickly sentimentallity - but there is a lot of good goth stuff hidden under the treacle.]

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass still holds up for me as an adult, as does Wind in the Willows

ok, if you haven't watched Ed Stone is Dead

really the first Episode was Very funny

Ed is dead, but he shouldn't be. Nigal, the grim reaper goofed - so Ed gets his life, but not his life force back.

Nigal is also an a True Buffy fan. as in , he berates Ed for his empty buffyless lfe.

Ed Stone is Dead

I can't find a listing for it. Where/when does it air?

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! Those (plus the Barsoom series A Princess of Mars and so forth, which i've been meaning to read for forever) should keep me in always-in-my-pocket reading material for quite a while.

Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923.

Beyond Good and Evil and Moby Dick.

plus the Barsoom series A Princess of Mars

My favorite books when I was 10! Then I discovered Fritz Leiber and REH which was better for my pre-adolesence.

Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923.

Candide!

I'm lazy and don't feel like going to the Literary thread since I'm not subscribed these days, so...

Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923. I want books to download from ManyBooks to put on my laptop.

Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott. Her copyright is dated 1874.

Beth, what's the AFA? As far as I'm concerned, not using Christmas is a good thing. We get enough of it shoved in our faces by everyone else. And, guess what, not everyone in the US celebrates Christmas. I do, but I think we go to far with rubbing it in everyone elses noses.

Sail, I think the deal (and this isn't anything I have any part in, by the way) is this: Somewhere around 75-80% of the country is Christian. This is the retailers biggest time of year, sales-wise. It is such a big time of year, because of Christmas, not just or primarily the generic "the holidays."

Target (I guess) made the decision not to mention Christmas at all in their Christmas advertising and in-store promotionals. I think the AFA's position is that if Target isn't acknowledging Christmas, people who celebrate Christmas and are doing Christmas shopping, should stop acknowledging (patronizing) Target.

I don't shop Target, but it has nothing to do with either Christmas v. Holidays, or with contraception.

I don't shop Target because it is a scary, scary, overstimulatingly scary place. All that red? All those circles? The funny shaped roundish holes in the red shopping carts, and when you look down, it's moving over the funky red carpet? The florescent lighting? The music?

That place is Anxiety Attack Central. I can't go in there on a good day, in the middle of a six month span where I'd otherwise had not one anxiety attack.

I can't shop Target, or the death rays will get me.

Ford just bowed to a boycott threat from AFA and pulled all their ads from gay and lesbian magazines. I hope it hurts their business more than if the AFA instituted their boycott.

Huh. I totally missed the part in the Bible where it's immoral for gay people to drive cars.