Saturday, June 6, 2015

The Queue

I greatly prefer those early Tintin stories that have been redrawn in the later, more polished style.

Recently
Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 5 (contains Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon, & Explorers on the Moon)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 1 (contains Tintin in America, Cigars of the Pharaoh, & The Blue Lotus)

Currently
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 2 (contains The Broken Ear, The Black Island, & King Ottokar's Spectre)
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel)

Presently
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 3 (contains The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, & The Secret of the Unicorn)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 4 (contains Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls, & Prisoners of the Sun)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 6 (contains The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks, & Tintin in Tibet)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 7 (contains The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714 to Sydney, & Tintin and the Picaros)
Pope Francis, The Church of Mercy: A Vision for the Church

Eventually
Rice Broocks, God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Norman Stone, The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War
Ted Morgan, Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
Samantha Power, "A Problem from Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide

Aspirationally
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
Edmund Burke, The Evils of Revolution
F. J. Sheed, Theology for Beginners
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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