1988 Christmas List, http://www.rasmusen.org/_amazon/xmas88.htm

• 1. Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities . A catalog of the ways New Yorkers make fools of themselves. Tom Wolfe's best book.
• 2. Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man , 581 pages. A first- person novel about a young black man made into a Communist leader in 1935ish New York.
• 3. Movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? . An astoundingly good movie. Its only flaw is that the fight scene at the end is too long and too scary. Otherwise, it's practically perfect.
• 4. Orson Card, Ender's Game . A recent science fiction novel about the wargames that train little boys to become starship admirals. Psychological science fiction seems to be starting to get somewhere.
• 5. David Brin, Startide Rising . A recent science fiction novel about a starship crewed by humans and modified dolphins that gets into trouble with about a dozen kinds of aliens all at once.
• 6. Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay, Yes, Minister . How bureaucrats thwart politicoes in Whitehall, and how the politicoes fight back. Very funny and very educational.
• 8. Movie: The Third Man , Orson Welles in decaying postwar Vienna. Mildly depressing, but all the major characters deserve their fates.
• 9. Robert Heinlein, Have Space Suit, Will Travel . A science fiction classic about a teenager who wins a space suit in a contest and is captured by aliens.
• 10. Joseph Epstein, Familiar Essays . Essays on everyday life and manners by a civilized man from Evanston who likes books.