TV, Tunes, Tomes and Toons

What Maria would call "A Few of My Favorite Things:" Considering my expensive book and music addiction, put the emphasis on FEW...and good luck getting that tune out of your head...

Movies:
- Secondhand Lions. "What do you expect me to do? Die of old age??"
- The Lord of the Rings. "There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil."
- Luther. "Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me."
- Braveheart. "Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- Gettysburg. "We shoulda freed the slaves, then fired on Ft. Sumter."
- Father Goose. "If you're waiting for the big finale, I'm sorry, this is all I do."

Music:
- Third Day // - Petra // - Michael Card // - Michael W. Smith //
- Nickel Creek // - Allison Krause & Union Station // - Alabama //
- Barrage // - Mozart

Books:
Christian faith: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis; Total Truth, by Nancy Pearcy
History: Emergence of Rome, by Chester Starr; Carnage and Culture, by Victor Davis Hanson; The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas Woods; Shelby Foote's Civil War Trilogy; William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Sword of the Prophet, by Serge Trifkovic
Fiction: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain; The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C.S. Lewis; Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy; Contact, by Carl Sagan (the movie did not do the book justice!); A Skeleton in God's Closet, by Paul Maier; Watership Down, by Richard Adams; the What If? 'alternate history' series
Science Fiction: The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov; Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

Cartoons:
- Calvin and Hobbes. The world's greatest juvenile philosophers...will we ever see their equal?
- Bloom County. All about the '80s. You had to be there...
- Peanuts.