1. The Night Before Christmas. Jack’s dad read him this story every Christmas Eve. When Charlie was born, he continued the tradition, reading the same book to his son. After Charile died, Jack burned the book and buried the ashes deep.
2. Green Eggs and Ham. The best book ever. He still reads it to remind him of the absurdity of life in general, and at Stargate Command in particular, where he swears he’s been served green eggs and ham in the mess.
3. The Art of War. Every soldier reads it. There is much wisdom in Sun Tzu. He gave a copy to Teal’c when he officially became part of SG-1. He thinks Teal’c understands it better than he does, but he’s okay with that.
4. This Killer Angels. Jack has stood on Cemetery Ridge and felt the ghosts of two great armies. He reads this to remember his fallen comrades from the wars he has fought, and still fights -- and to remind him of the price soldiers pay for their leaders’ mistakes.
5. The DaVinci Code. Well, the first ten pages of it. Somebody had
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He still reads it to remind him of the absurdity of life in general, and at Stargate Command in particular, where he swears he’s been served green eggs and ham in the mess.He walked straight to the mess from his on-base quarters, and proceeded through the line, blearily requesting the eggs and "some of that". He was still not quite awake, and didn't want to take the effort which of several meat or meat-like possibilities it was. Then he filled up two mugs with coffee (to save having to come back for the second one, when he knew he would be needing it already), and shuffled over to SG-1's usual table
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-Cooking with Beer. This is a book! It really exists. And all those times people put down his steak and beer, and chicken and beer, and roast with beer.... The Jack O'Neill cooking method has finally got some recognition, and it's about time.
- Build your own telescope. He'd been planning to do it with Charlie, but he never got the chance. It's probably sttill at his wife's place, next to the box of unassembled parts. He should really give it away. It's a shame to let it just sit there.
But he can't part with it. Not yet.
-Theoretical Astrophysics for Idiots - he still doesn't get it. I mean, where does the worm/apple thing happen? Carter's either really smart or making the whole thing up.
-Mythology and You: an introduction to other cultures and their belief systems - he still doesn't get it. What the hell is wrong with people? Gods with animal heads? incest? Daniel must be nuts to have spent his life studing all this.
-Biography of Mary Steenburgen, because it had photos and she's hot.
-Cooking with Beer. This is a book! It really exists. And all those times people put down his steak and beer, and chicken and beer, and roast with beer.... The Jack O'Neill cooking method has finally got some recognition, and it's about time.
Ummm... Are you absolutely sure that this doesn't go on the list Five Books Jack Has Authored?
1. Cooking With Beer 2. Idiot's Guide to Passing for an Idiot 3. Fishing: How to Let Go of the Catch, and Catch a Break 4. Read This Book!* - *But If You Do I'll Have to Kill Ya' 5. Studies in Leadership: The Wisdom of George S. Hammond
gone with the wind by margaret mitchell. during one long, harsh minnsota winter when jack was in his early teens the tv went on the fritz. his mother got tired of hearing him bitch about it & dropped this book next to him on the couch. she never thought he'd read it, just wanted to give him the hint to read something. after a half a hour, jack picked it up & started reading it. he thought it was pretty good
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Five Books Jack Has Readent_alter_egoFebruary 21 2010, 04:16:46 UTC
Animal Farm. It was the only book that he liked in English class his junior year of high school. His mother had almost fainted when he said he liked the book they were reading.
The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole World. Sara sent it to him to tell him she was pregnant. He probably looked like an idiot grinning through target practice, but he hadn’t cared. He still has the book packed in his attic.
War and Peace. He won fifty bucks by finishing it before Kawalsky when they were both recovering from injuries. That was back when fifty bucks bought a lot more.
Both volumes of The Gods of the Egyptians. He checked them out of the library right after the first Abydos mission. He’s never mentioned this to Daniel, because he just knows he’d be given a stack of books to correct the archaeological sins of Budge.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Only because Fraiser wouldn’t let him out of the infirmary and Teal’c brought it for him. He didn’t like it. Any book that begins with the destruction of Earth sucks as far as he’s concerned.
Re: Five Books Jack Has ReadthothmesMarch 5 2010, 06:22:19 UTC
Both volumes of The Gods of the Egyptians.
I majored in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology as an undergrad, and I have a passion for Egyptology, but I admire Jack's intrepidity here. I have both of these, but I can't bring myself to actually go cover to cover on them, although I've read widely here and there in both volumes!
Five Books Jack Has ReadthothmesFebruary 23 2010, 09:08:56 UTC
1. The Scarlet Letter He's still sorry he wasted those hours of his youth, but Mrs. Mooney was a scary old biddy, and he needed to pass her class, or he'd have been kicked off the hockey team. He'd faked it with Emerson's Essay on Self-Reliance, skimmed Huck Finn, and the parts about whaling in Moby-Dick were interesting enough to make it worth his while. Grampa had read him Last of the Mohicans as a kid, but The Scarlet Letter was tedious, dense, and had characters he just wanted to kick soundly until they sucked their heads out of their asses and got on with it.
2. Seventeen Kings and Forty-Two Elephants Many, many, many, many times. It had colorful batik-like illustrations and rollicking and ridiculous rhymes, and Charlie had a passionate and unaccountable attachment to it for a while. Jack and Sara had both been able to recite it from memory, and thought that they would be able to forever, but it turned out to be like that "'till death do us part" business. Surprisingly less permanent than originally assumed. In Ba'al's
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1. The Night Before Christmas. Jack’s dad read him this story every Christmas Eve. When Charlie was born, he continued the tradition, reading the same book to his son. After Charile died, Jack burned the book and buried the ashes deep.
2. Green Eggs and Ham. The best book ever. He still reads it to remind him of the absurdity of life in general, and at Stargate Command in particular, where he swears he’s been served green eggs and ham in the mess.
3. The Art of War. Every soldier reads it. There is much wisdom in Sun Tzu. He gave a copy to Teal’c when he officially became part of SG-1. He thinks Teal’c understands it better than he does, but he’s okay with that.
4. This Killer Angels. Jack has stood on Cemetery Ridge and felt the ghosts of two great armies. He reads this to remember his fallen comrades from the wars he has fought, and still fights -- and to remind him of the price soldiers pay for their leaders’ mistakes.
5. The DaVinci Code. Well, the first ten pages of it. Somebody had ( ... )
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And yay! for The Killer Angels - I adore that book!
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Killer Angels ... there really are no words for how wonderful that book is!
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- Build your own telescope. He'd been planning to do it with Charlie, but he never got the chance. It's probably sttill at his wife's place, next to the box of unassembled parts. He should really give it away. It's a shame to let it just sit there.
But he can't part with it. Not yet.
-Theoretical Astrophysics for Idiots - he still doesn't get it. I mean, where does the worm/apple thing happen? Carter's either really smart or making the whole thing up.
-Mythology and You: an introduction to other cultures and their belief systems - he still doesn't get it. What the hell is wrong with people? Gods with animal heads? incest? Daniel must be nuts to have spent his life studing all this.
-Biography of Mary Steenburgen, because it had photos and she's hot.
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Ummm... Are you absolutely sure that this doesn't go on the list Five Books Jack Has Authored?
1. Cooking With Beer
2. Idiot's Guide to Passing for an Idiot
3. Fishing: How to Let Go of the Catch, and Catch a Break
4. Read This Book!* - *But If You Do I'll Have to Kill Ya'
5. Studies in Leadership: The Wisdom of George S. Hammond
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The second one made me LOL pretty hard.
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during one long, harsh minnsota winter when jack was in his early teens the tv went on the fritz. his mother got tired of hearing him bitch about it & dropped this book next to him on the couch. she never thought he'd read it, just wanted to give him the hint to read something. after a half a hour, jack picked it up & started reading it. he thought it was pretty good ( ... )
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As for your last book, great minds think alike!
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The Best Baby Name Book in the Whole World. Sara sent it to him to tell him she was pregnant. He probably looked like an idiot grinning through target practice, but he hadn’t cared. He still has the book packed in his attic.
War and Peace. He won fifty bucks by finishing it before Kawalsky when they were both recovering from injuries. That was back when fifty bucks bought a lot more.
Both volumes of The Gods of the Egyptians. He checked them out of the library right after the first Abydos mission. He’s never mentioned this to Daniel, because he just knows he’d be given a stack of books to correct the archaeological sins of Budge.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Only because Fraiser wouldn’t let him out of the infirmary and Teal’c brought it for him. He didn’t like it. Any book that begins with the destruction of Earth sucks as far as he’s concerned.
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i never read that, but i agree
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I majored in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology as an undergrad, and I have a passion for Egyptology, but I admire Jack's intrepidity here. I have both of these, but I can't bring myself to actually go cover to cover on them, although I've read widely here and there in both volumes!
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2. Seventeen Kings and Forty-Two Elephants Many, many, many, many times. It had colorful batik-like illustrations and rollicking and ridiculous rhymes, and Charlie had a passionate and unaccountable attachment to it for a while. Jack and Sara had both been able to recite it from memory, and thought that they would be able to forever, but it turned out to be like that "'till death do us part" business. Surprisingly less permanent than originally assumed. In Ba'al's ( ... )
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