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Doogie Horner

Author of A Die Hard Christmas

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Works by Doogie Horner

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) — Designer, some editions — 23,334 copies, 1,199 reviews
Hollow City (2014) — Designer, some editions — 10,020 copies, 296 reviews
My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) — Cover designer, some editions — 3,448 copies, 142 reviews
Hidden Pictures (2022) — Illustrator — 3,297 copies, 86 reviews
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009) — Designer, some editions — 2,844 copies, 77 reviews
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (2013) — Designer, some editions — 2,654 copies, 132 reviews
The Last Policeman (2012) — Designer, some editions — 2,356 copies, 202 reviews
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black (2013) — Designer, some editions — 1,172 copies, 88 reviews
Hope Never Dies (2018) — Designer, some editions — 931 copies, 60 reviews
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings (2013) — Designer, some editions — 911 copies, 70 reviews
Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends (Kid Legends) (2015) — Illustrator — 174 copies, 18 reviews
Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends (Kid Legends) (2016) — Illustrator — 161 copies, 2 reviews
Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers (Kid Legends) (2017) — Illustrator — 95 copies, 3 reviews
The Con Artist: A Novel (2018) — Designer, some editions — 85 copies, 4 reviews
McSweeney's 43 (2013) — Contributor — 54 copies, 2 reviews

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Told in the manner of The Night Before Christmas, this adorable picture book recounts the scenes from the classic film. I saw this on the new shelf at the library (our library is a big lagging in their new stuff - I'm pretty sure this came out 7 or 8 months back) and knew I had to get it. It was even better than I ever imagined. The art style is cute, and the rhymes are clever, and it's just hilarious. It's probably not one I'll be reading to Henry, but we did end up introducing Emma to the show more movie last night, as being rated R, she'd never seen it. Since she's a couple weeks shy of 16, we figured it was ok. She ended up loving the book as well, though probably not as much as me, since I've loved Die Hard for nearly 30 years (omg, I hate that sentence so much). Anyway...if you're a fan of the film, it's a hoot. If you haven't seen the movie, it's available for streaming on HBO GO. :) show less
I'm ranking this in accordance with how much joy it gave me, not necessarily for how good of a read it is! And I did enjoy it 5 stars worth! It's a re-telling of the movie "Die Hard" as a Christmas rhyme, in the style of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"! With artwork that really gives the feel of the movie! But it isn't for children, as it does retain the gun violence and killings of the movie!
If you like the movie, I think you'll like this! And I think this puts the argument to rest as show more to whether or not "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie! This book proves that it is!

"So Merry Christmas to all,
be kind to one another,
And, most of all,
yippee-ki-yay motherfucker!"
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Oh my God, he is SO right. Here I was the other day reading:

"Hardly anybody watches beauty pageants any more, but everybody watches beauty pageant scandal coverage"

They DO? I thought? When have I ever done that?

But just now, dear reader, I found myself clicking on this:

Police investigate third beauty pageant brawl
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/27/3201042.htm

Shit. How did he know I'd -?

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I've been eating breakfast and giggling at this.

I'm not a flowchart sort of girl, so I show more find myself gravitating to the text more than the charts as I dip into it.

Doomsday Scenarios:


Nobody wants to spend their afterlife telling other spirits 'How did I die? Well, the earth's temperature climbed half a degree every year for twenty years, which doesn't seem like much, but that increase significantly increased the amount of algae in the oceans, which upset the foodchain and blabbity-blab blab boring scientific stuff.' The biggest reason to fight global warming is so we can obliterate ourselves in a flashier way, like by creating a minature black hole or zombie plague.


Dethroned or Disgraced Beauty Queens:

This is a bar chart in the book:



Figure 1: Why aren't We Watching Beauty Pageants?

A Not enough nudity 13%
B Jealous 25%
C Don't Like Beauty 2%
D Too busy working three jobs and raising five children alone since our husband left...because we weren't pretty enough 8%
E Shark Week 20%
F Don't like the 'Interview' part 30%
G Busy writing our doctoral thesis on women's studies 10%



Maybe one of those stars is for effort. A book like this can't make you snort your weeties every time you read it, but.

Okay, then, Zeppelin Warfare:



Zeppelins are massive, majestic flying machines, but they are also notoriously fragile: Strong winds cause considerable difficulties for zeppelins, landing is dangerous even in perfect weather and requires a large ground crew, and of course early zeppelins were filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas. Some zeppelins were known to burst into flames if a passenger ordered their Bloody Mary with extra tabasco, or said a word that sounded similar to 'fire.' During a routine flight to Switzerland, a young zeppelin intentionally smashed itself against a mountain peak because it was going through a difficult breakup.


I wish I could show the flowchart for Zeppelin Warfare, it's hilarious. There is a lot of schnapps drinking.
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A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic by Doogie Horner (illustrated by‎ JJ Harrison) is a novelty book, retelling of the famous movie through a delightful Christmas rhyme.

’m one of those that agree with the premise that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, in fact I just bought it from Amazon.com ($7 at the time of this post) and intend to watch it sometime this week. I’m hold enough to have seen this movie in the theater when it came out, and I remember how much fun it show more was.

The artwork is great, second only to the wonderful wit and rhymes. The author stays true not only to the story, but also to the spirit of the movie. The lyrics are to the beat of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”, the author does a great job sticking to that rhythm.

This book is a lot of fun, funny, and entertaining. It is a wonderful, whimsical Christmas gift to the Die Hard fan or movie buff in your family.

Enjoy the book, the movie and the book, one after another,
And lest we forget
Yippee Ki Yay, motherf@%er

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