Baker’s Dozen III

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Book series

  1. Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries
  2. Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. The Bobbsey Twins
  4. Nero Wolfe
  5. Chronicles of Narnia
  6. The Chronicles of Prydain
  7. The Dresden Files
  8. “the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers [Guide to the Galaxy] Trilogy”
  9. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser mysteries
  10. A Series of Unfortunate Events
  11. The Gregor Demarkian mysteries by Jane Haddam
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Book series

  1. Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries
  2. Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. The Bobbsey Twins
  4. Nero Wolfe
  5. Chronicles of Narnia
  6. The Chronicles of Prydain
  7. The Dresden Files
  8. “the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers [Guide to the Galaxy] Trilogy”
  9. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser mysteries
  10. A Series of Unfortunate Events
  11. The Gregor Demarkian mysteries by Jane Haddam
  12. Shadows of the Apt
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Book series

  1. Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries
  2. Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. The Bobbsey Twins
  4. Nero Wolfe
  5. Chronicles of Narnia
  6. The Chronicles of Prydain
  7. The Dresden Files
  8. “the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers [Guide to the Galaxy] Trilogy”
  9. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser mysteries
  10. A Series of Unfortunate Events
  11. The Gregor Demarkian mysteries by Jane Haddam
  12. Shadows of the Apt
  13. James Bond

39 books in all so far; the first 14 (12 novels and 2 short-story collections) were by Ian Fleming.

Next up:

Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin

One of my favorite sf short-story collections.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King

Will the good guys be able to build a society in the post-apocalyptical world?

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum

A fun spy novel that was better than most of the Bourne books and made into a decent movie starring Michael Caine.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton

25 books in the series, and she died before finishing Z.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub

It leaves off with the main character pursuing the source of Eva’s appearances.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn

The novel which inspired the movie Limitless. Glynn wrote a prequel, Receptor, but it wasn’t nearly as good as either IMHO.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien started writing an epilogue but it quickly ground to a halt and was abandoned apparently for creative reasons.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

A terrific fantasy/alternative history novel about the return of magic to Regency Britain. There’s lots more the author could tell us about the two title characters and what comes next.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Just one of my favorite books. I feel like there could be an much more for the main character to observe.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  10. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I’d love to see what happens with Willoughby, Margaret Dashwood, Lucy Steele (hopefully getting her comeuppance) and others.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  10. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  11. Addie Pray by Joe David Brown

The book which inspired Paper Moon, one of the few movies that’s IMHO as good as the book - and there are plenty of more cons which the lead characters could do.

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  10. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  11. Addie Pray by Joe David Brown
  12. The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey/ 21 by Patrick O’Brian

The last, unfinished book of the Aubrey-Maturin series; I’d love to have seen it finished, and a sequel to it as well

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Books you’d love to see a good sequel to

  1. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
  2. The Stand by Stephen King
  3. The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
  4. Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton
  5. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  6. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
  7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  10. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  11. Addie Pray by Joe David Brown
  12. The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey/ 21 by Patrick O’Brian
  13. The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling

I loved that book, and while sequels aren’t always as good, I’d like to have seen Stirling take a chance on this one.

The Best Movie Ending Ever

  1. Schindler’s List
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The Best Movie Ending Ever

  1. Schindler’s List
  2. Dark City

Given all that has come before, it’s a remarkably satisfying and happy ending, without being at all sappy.

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The Best Movie Ending Ever

  1. Schindler’s List
  2. Dark City
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
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The Best Movie Ending Ever

  1. Schindler’s List
  2. Dark City
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  4. Gangs of New York

What starts as a great battle between two forces becomes sidetracked by the greater world around them; I guess Monty Python and the Holy Grail ends similarly but not as satisfying.

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The Best Movie Ending Ever

  1. Schindler’s List
  2. Dark City
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  4. Gangs of New York
  5. The Shawshank Redemption
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The Best Movie Ending Ever

  1. Schindler’s List
  2. Dark City
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  4. Gangs of New York
  5. The Shawshank Redemption
  6. The Color Purple (1985)