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Post by dave on Oct 24, 2015 0:41:15 GMT
Deadwood I liked The Old Man and the Sea and thought the movie was really good also. Anything with Spencer Tracy is a good movie. I personally enjoyed reading the works of the Bard of Avon especially Henry V and several of the tragedies. Thinking about Macbeth and Hamlet makes me want to read them again. Lest anyone think I am educated, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was my favorite author growing up and I enjoyed all of his writings and still do to this day. Alistair MacLean was another favorite in my teenage years and on. Great fiction especially HMS Ulysses which came from his own career in a light cruiser in WW II. Sorry for getting off subject. Regards Dave
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Oct 24, 2015 12:27:50 GMT
Beth, Following Hemmingway, in this order, for me. Jack London? J.D.Salinger? Steinbeck? Orwell? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Vonnegut? S. King? Tolkien? C.S, Lewis?
I could go on with a bunch of junk reading and non fiction, but the above is enough for you to critique.
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Post by yanmacca on Oct 24, 2015 12:44:41 GMT
What no Stephen King or Sven Hassel!
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Post by Beth on Oct 24, 2015 16:48:13 GMT
Hemmingway was required reading in high school. Old Man and the Sea wasn't bad but some of the others got long especially the short stories which pretty much could be summarized as manly men doing manly things. He was the only required reading author I took a dislike to though 6 weeks for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner got a bit long--especially when you consider we did A Tale of Two Cites in 6 weeks as well.
I like Fitzgerald and Tolkein. Not CS Lewis. Stephen King is so not my type of book. Dislike all the Brontes
For my own fiction reading--Christie, Georgette Heyer, Austen, Tony Hillerman, PD James, Poe, Conan Doyle,
I tend to read a lot more nonfiction over fiction though and when I read fiction I tend to like mysteries especially Cozies or traditional Regencys like Heyer.
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Oct 24, 2015 16:51:41 GMT
What no Stephen King or Sven Hassel! S. King was there!
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Post by yanmacca on Oct 24, 2015 17:19:07 GMT
Many apologies Tom I feel a right berk!, I didn't have my bins on, I thought it said Sking.
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Post by dave on Oct 26, 2015 16:28:44 GMT
Yan Maybe you meant Sissel Kyrkjebø? Beautiful voice. Regards Dave
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Post by yanmacca on Oct 26, 2015 20:25:27 GMT
Dave is she as good as Andrea Corr?
In my old hippy days I was a Joni Mitchell and Carol King fan. Yeah I like female vocalists with nice clean sweet voices, certainly not like “Burley chassis” sorry I meant “Shirley Bassey”
Yan.
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Post by dave on Oct 27, 2015 3:02:53 GMT
Yan I love her voice. On you tube she sings Shenandoah and Going Home. What a voice. Regards Dave
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