heisenbergchronicles: 5x12: Rabid Dog The fine folks at Bookshelf Cinema have provided&nbs
heisenbergchronicles:5x12: Rabid DogThe fine folks at Bookshelf Cinema have provided the most thorough inventory of the Schrader bookshelf that I’ve seen so far, complete with Amazon links. I’ve expanded their list below with 12 more books, added some notes/commentary (in italics) and bolded interesting titles.Jesse picks up a copy of:Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, by Edmund Morris; Random House, 1999. Most likely this is an allusion to Reagan being the leader of the “War on Drugs.” Others speculate it’s a reference to the gambling term, “dutch book.”There are several horse books. They must be Marie’s.Basic Horsemanship: English and Western, by Eleanor F Prince and Gaydell M Collier; Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1974.Horse Sense: Cause and Correction of Problems, by Kate Delano-Condax Decker; Winchester Press, 1979.The Body Language of Horses: Revealing the Nature of Equine Needs, Wishes, and Emotions, and How Horses Communicate Them, by Tom Ainslie and Bonnie Ledbetter: Morrow, 1980.Financial books dominate the shelf:Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929, by Maury Klein; Oxford University Press, 2001.One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market, by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild; Penguin Books, 1990. How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, by William J O’Neil; McGraw-Hill, 1995.Mark Skousen’s Complete Guide to Financial Privacy, by Mark Skousen; Alexandria House, 1979.Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, by Spencer Johnson; Putnam, 1998. 2 copies, really?Affordable Paradise: The Secrets of an Affordable Life In Hawaii, by H. Skip Thomsen and Camille Thomsen; Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, by Jim Cramer and Cliff Mason; Simon and Schuster, 2006.The Agile Investor: Profiting from the End of Buy and Hold, by Stephen Leeb and Roger S Conrad; HarperBusiness 1997.And how about this one:Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth about All Sorts of Stuff You are Never Supposed to Know, by William Poundstone; Morrow, 1983. This book claims to have, among other things, the formula for Coca-Coca, instructions for beating a lie detector, the list of eleven herbs and spices in Kentucky Fried Chicken, and “credit card mischief.” A selection of popular fiction titles:The Blue Nowhere, by Jeffery Deaver; Simon & Schuster, 2001.Rainbow Six, by Tom Clancy; Putnam, 1998.The Money Harvest, by Ross Thomas; Morrow, 1975.Seven Days for Ruby, by Blaine M Yorgason and Brenton G Yorgason; Deseret Book Co., 1986.Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier; Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.October Sky, by Homer Hickam; Dell Books, 1999.The Long Dark: An Alaska Winter’s Tale by Slim Randles; 2003.Flesh and Blood by Jonathan Kellerman; Ballantine, 2001.Mockingjay and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (from the Hunger Games trilogy.A book by Tess Gerritsen, author of the Rizzoli crime thrillersStephen King, a well-known fan of the show, and also a favorite of some of the Breaking Bad writers:Four Past Midnight, by Stephen King; Signet, 1991.Bag of Bones, by Stephen King; Scribner, 1999.The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King; New Amer Library Trade, 1992.From a Buick 8, by Stephen King; Scribner, 2002Cultural non-fiction with a focus on Native Americans & the Southwest:The Cowman’s Southwest: Being the Reminiscences of Oliver Nelson, by Oliver Nelson and Angie Debo; University of Nebraska Press, 1986.Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors, by Stephen E. Ambrose; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. From the description, “both men were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people.”Black Range Tales, by James A. McKenna; Rio Grande Pr Inc, 1969.The Indian’s Book, by Natalie Curtis; Dover Publications, 1968.Without Reservations: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail, by Samuel B BaleenBlack Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt; Pocket, 1978.The Conquest of Apacheria (Civilization of American Indian) by Dan L. Thrapp; University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.Mixed bag of non-fiction, many likely chosen just for the title Destiny and 102 Other Real-Life Mysteries: From Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story, by Paul Aurandt; Bantam, 1984.The RAT, Real-World Aptitude Test: Preparing Yourself for Leaving Home, by Homer E. Moyer; Capital Books, 2001. This one obviously refers to Jesse, just by the name.Crazy Rhythm: From Brooklyn And Jazz To Nixon’s White House, Watergate, And Beyond, by Leonard Garment; Da Capo Press, 2001.Test Your Cultural Literacy, by Kathy Zahler; Prentice Hall, 1992.Citizen Lazlo!: The Continuing, Unrelenting Correspondence of Lazlo Toth, American!, by Don Novello; Workman Pub., 1992.The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw, by Patrick F. McManus; Holt, 1989.Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg; Harcourt, 1954.The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility, by William L. Moore; Fawcett, 1987.The Final Days: The Last Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House, by Barbara Olson; Regnery Pub, 2001.Cosmos, by Carl Sagan; Random House, 1980.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; Vintage, 2001.The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Las Vegas by Rick Garman; Alpha Books, 2000.Guide to the National Parks by National Geographic.Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions by Dave Barry; Random House, 2001.Several books by Lewis Grizzard with titles out of frame.Also on the shelf:Deadwood: The Complete Series (HBO). Actress Anna Gunn starred in S2 & S3 of the HBO show. Perhaps of note, the son of Gunn’s character is killed accidentally by a horse. Jim Beaver, the actor who sells Walter the 38-snub nose revolver in 4x02 and the M60 machine gun in 5x01, also had a prominent role in the series.Desktop Dartboard.A map of Maine. This may be one of the strangest items, because it’s intentionally facing forward to be seen. We know that 5x15 is called, “Granite State,” but that’s New Hampshire, not Maine. -- source link
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