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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020

      The Hobbit, by contrast, was the first 'real' book I read, a a second-grader. Tolkien's world engrossed me throughout my youth.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020

      The two other big fantasy series I've read were Terry Brooks' Shannara series, which I read in my early teens and can no longer even remember at all, & Christopher Paolini's Eragon series, which I read aloud -- it was fun & had some great moments but was very derivative.

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    3. David French‏Verified account @DavidAFrench 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Shannara is still solid!

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @DavidAFrench

      Maybe someday I will go back. Liked them at the time, but then, I liked Battlefield Earth when I was 13.

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    5. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @DavidAFrench

      I read Shannara in graduate school. Don't judge me.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @DavidAFrench

      I read Atlas Shrugged when I was 28.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Marco Paradiso‏ @ParadisoReale 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @DavidAFrench

      Shannara does not hold up.

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    8. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @ParadisoReale @baseballcrank @DavidAFrench

      I wonder if the Donaldson books hold up. Was surprised to see them all translated in Russian some years ago in a store in Moscow.

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

      Having put down the first one as a teen early on, I read them in 2016, and lemme tellya, they held up very, very well in the climate of 2016.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

      Every time Pence says "heal our Land" I keep looking for a green stone

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

      I've thought about the Sunbane a lot the past month.

      1:22 PM - 26 Apr 2020
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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

          This tweet makes you my brother, no matter how much I will fight with you over politics forever.

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        3. Marco Paradiso‏ @ParadisoReale 26 Apr 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @DavidAFrench

          So good. Unbeliever gets better with age.

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