Christmas books

sun-star · 12-15-2004, 01:51 PM

Recommend your favourite seasonal Christmassy novels, poems, plays, whatever, here

Hasty Ent · 12-15-2004, 01:54 PM

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

EarthBound · 12-15-2004, 02:37 PM

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

inked · 12-15-2004, 05:37 PM

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!

**Nurvingiel** · 12-15-2004, 07:37 PM

My favourite book is "The Polar Express", by Chris Van Allsburg.

dawningoftime · 12-15-2004, 08:12 PM

I love "The Poler Express", too. "Twas the Night before Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" are musts too.

Elvengirl · 12-16-2004, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dawningoftime

I love "The Poler Express", too. "Twas the Night before Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" are musts too.

True, definitely the best of the best.

Carafin · 12-18-2004, 01:34 AM

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*

Thain Peregrin Took I · 12-18-2004, 01:38 AM

I like "A Christmas Carol".

inked · 12-19-2004, 12:43 AM

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!

cee2lee2 · 12-25-2004, 11:38 PM

Well, Inked, I guess those are the originals!

I also like "A Christmas Carol" and enjoyed Jan Karon's "Shepherds Abiding" this year.

12-15-2004, 01:51 PM	#1
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Christmas books Recommend your favourite seasonal Christmassy novels, poems, plays, whatever, here __________________ 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, 02:37 PM	#3
EarthBound Lady Tipple & Queen of Blessed Thistle Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: I've been told it's all in my head Posts: 916	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 __________________ Beer + Pizza = N'uff said Happy to be here The HACBR has been alerted to my postings…..Hobbits Against Constant Beer References Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Ben Franklin I want my Mooter T-Shirt!

12-15-2004, 05:37 PM	#4
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	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! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

12-15-2004, 08:12 PM	#6
dawningoftime Enting Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 90	I love "The Poler Express", too. "Twas the Night before Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" are musts too. __________________ Audio Editor

12-18-2004, 01:34 AM	#8
Carafin Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: The warm (or West) coast of Canada Posts: 150	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 __________________ Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo; a star shines on the hour of our meeting, - LotR (FotR) four be the things I'd be better off without, love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt Queen Guinevere? ... Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled, Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good for this, The dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea, That Luthien for a time shoud be ~ ~Beren: The Song of Parting

12-15-2004, 01:54 PM	#2
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	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

12-18-2004, 01:38 AM	#9
Thain Peregrin Took I Thain of Randomness Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Most likely being completely random... Posts: 971	I like "A Christmas Carol". __________________ Here we were trying to take Rommel, when who do we kidnap but Admiral Todley himself. What? Hahahaha. That wasn't the plan you know. - Col. Crittendon Monk: I'm 100% sure that she probably killed him. Stottlemeyer: What does that mean? Monk: 95%... I feel like Pepé Le Pew when he look up "pew" in the dictionary. French accent Le pew? Moi? Noo. -Shawn Spencer British accent It's a bobble head Bobbie! head bob -Special Agen Seely Booth

12-19-2004, 12:43 AM	#10
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	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! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

12-25-2004, 11:38 PM	#11
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	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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