YOU CAN TELL a lot about a person when you know what she loves to read, what he loves to watch. What’s a really private guy doing with a website in which he chooses to show these to whomever drops by? Is a puzzlement. (You’re remembering that line from The King and I, aren’t you?) Perhaps he cares more about being known to his little family around the world, reflecting their own values, than he does about his online privacy.
Why, paint me unsophisticated! These lists will keep growing, snap-peas on vines. Like peas, no particular order. At first I had a line about why I like each one. Then I figured if you read the book or saw the movie, you’d know why. You’ll notice not a single horror film here, or raunchy comedy, being as how I’m into neither raunch nor horror. Music? Hopelessly old-fashioned, wildly romantic. Beethoven’s Ninth, Holst’s Planets (and therefore John Williams score for Star Wars), close harmonies as in the Four Freshmen (who started it all), the Association, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas. I know, hopeless. Duelin’ Banjos, of course.
Television I turned off forever on September 11, 2001. I do not miss it. Get my news from the Internet.
Books by Other Writers:
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Man and Time, by J. B. Priestly
You Were Born Again to be Together, by Dick Sutphen
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukov
The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra
Stalking the Wild Pendulum, by Itzhak Bentov
The Nature of Personal Reality, by Jane Roberts
Seth Speaks, by Jane Roberts
Trustee from the Toolroom, by Nevil Shute
An Experiment with Time, by J. W. Dunne
The Rainbow and the Rose, by Nevil Shute
Round the Bend, by Nevil Shute
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, by James Bach
Life After Life, by Raymond Moody
Breakthrough to Creativity, by Shafica Karagulla
The Act or Creation, by Arthur Koestler
Psychical Phenonomena in the Physical World, by Charles McCreery
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain
Beautiful Joe’s Paradise, by Mashall Saunders (that’s a Ms. Marshall Saunders)
The Flying Yorkshireman, by Eric Knight
As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen
In Search of Schroedinger’s Cat, by John Gribbin
Language in Thought and Action, by S. I. Hayakawa
The Supreme Adventure, by Robert Crookall
Wind, Sand and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Flight to Arras, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Night Flight, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot
Education and Ecstasy, by George Leonard
Movies:
GalaxyQuest
Enchanted April
Heaven Can Wait
Mouse Hunt
Chicken Run
The Princess Bride
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour)
Sense and Sensibility
The Electric Horseman
Bell, Book and Candle
Somewhere in Time
A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim as Scrooge)
Always
Nine to Five
The Hunters (because I flew some of those very F-86′s and once with James Salter, the author of the book)
True Lies
Shaun the Sheep
All the President’s Men
Harold and Maude
Groundhog Day
Men in Black
Creature Comforts (Nick Park claymation)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Horatio Hornblower (Series)
My Fair Lady
Ordinary People
Remains of the Day
Strictly Ballroom
The Court Jester
Casablanca
Finding Nemo
Avatar
The Sting
Searching for Bobby Fischer
It’s a Wonderful LIfe