Thornbirds

I remember the TV adaptation of ‘The Thornbirds’ too – much too powerful for the adolescent female mind; we should never have been allowed to watch it!

Father Ralph and Humbert Humbert « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

I read The Thornbirds during a long summer home from college, right after it came out in paperback.

Blockbuster Month « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

"… I better stop now least this really sound like the Thornbirds – wherein I was always upset with Richard Chamberlain for not dropping his ambitions and running into Maggie's arms," he said, referring to the story of lovers torn apart by duty and circumstance.

Sanford e-mail: I've 'crossed lines I never would have imagined' 2009

The guy thinks he like King David and living in the Thornbirds -

Republican calls for investigations into Sanford 2009

I immediately thought of The Thornbirds, but this is better.

Cafe Writing: Dearest Love… 2009

I loved Carl Sagen's Contact and Colleen McCullough's The Thornbirds, but at just over 400 pages they were practically short stories compared to two of my later favorites: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove weighing in at 864 pages and a book that remains in my top ten - Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur.

The Long of It! | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

I better stop now least this really sound like the Thornbirds - wherein I was always upset with Richard Chamberlain for not dropping his ambitions and running into Maggie's arms.

Another Way to Look at the Sanford Affair 2009

I better stop now least this really sound like the Thornbirds -- wherein I was always upset with Richard Chamberlain for not dropping his ambitions and running into Maggie's arms.

Rob Kall: Will Romantic Emails Between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour Maria Help or Hurt Him? 2009

I better stop now least this really sound like the Thornbirds wherein I was always upset with Richard Chamberlain for not dropping his ambitions and running into Maggie's arms.

Printing: Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour Maria Help or Hurt Him? 2009

I better stop now least this really sound like the Thornbirds wherein I was always upset with Richard Chamberlain for not dropping his ambitions and running into Maggie's arms.

Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour Maria Help or Hurt Him? 2009