|
7835. judithathome - 9/24/2005 8:01:28 PM Spooky!! 7836. judithathome - 9/24/2005 8:01:49 PM Or should that be Groovy!! 7837. Ulgine Barrows - 9/25/2005 3:30:36 AM The third one looks pregnant, to me. 7838. Ms. No - 9/27/2005 8:42:01 PM Ha, actually the third one looks like something that could have been tooled on leather. 7839. wabbit - 10/4/2005 1:13:13 AM RIP August WilsonAugust Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black culture, of American literature and of Broadway theater, died yesterday at a hospital in Seattle. He was 60 and lived in Seattle. The cause was liver cancer, said his assistant, Dena Levitin. Mr. Wilson's cancer was diagnosed in the summer, and his illness was made public last month.
7840. Linnea - 10/4/2005 5:11:34 AM Anyone watch the Dylan special on PBS? I taped it last week, and finally sat down and watched it over the weekend.
I had a though while watching it: I'd love to hear him sing in Yiddish. His vocal style is perfect for klezmer music. The way he sings through his nose, and slides up, down and around the notes of the melody . . . "far from the twisted reach of craaaeeeeeaaaaazzzzy sorrow". . . can't you just hear it? 7841. Macnas - 10/4/2005 9:41:19 AM Ahmm.....what's klezmer? 7842. jayackroyd - 10/4/2005 4:54:11 PM Jewish pop music for dancing to. I think of it as woodwinds, but apparently that's a recent innovation.
Wiki
There are some Klezmatic clips here, the Klezmatics being a band of some general renown.
7843. Ms. No - 10/4/2005 4:57:30 PM There's a version of Peter and the Wolf backed by a Klezmer orchestra with Maurice Sendak doing the narration that came out not too long ago. It's really wonderful. It's not in Yiddish, but there is a lot of Yiddish in it and Sendak has the correct accent. 7844. Ms. No - 10/4/2005 5:26:21 PM If you're looking for it, however, it's called Pincus and the Pig, a Klezmer Tale. 7845. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 3:38:14 AM I've read 18. How about you?
Top 100 banned books 7846. ScottLoar - 10/5/2005 5:03:32 AM Of those I remember: 3,5,6,13,41 (great American literature equal to no. 5), 47,52,69,70,77,84,90. And those I didn't remember are forgettable, like most of the Stephen King and kiddie stuff (excepting Little Black Sambo). I'm surprised Tales of the South's stories by the character Uncle Remus didn't make the list, probably because the sight dialect is beyond the ken of modern readers. 7847. judithathome - 10/5/2005 5:55:10 AM I've read 27 of them... 7848. Magoseph - 10/5/2005 6:15:43 AM I only read the following:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The House of Spirits by Isabel AllendeS
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Native Son by Richard Wright
7849. Macnas - 10/5/2005 10:00:05 AM The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
So, spiritually I might be safe!
7850. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 1:47:23 PM The one that surprises me is A Wrinkle in Time. The one that makes me sad is The Chocolate War. 7851. Macnas - 10/5/2005 2:20:09 PM Funny, I recall Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on school syllabus, as was Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies and most every damn thing Steinbeck wrote. 7852. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 2:28:53 PM Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are targets because of literally minded people who don't understand the depiction of black characters in the novels, nor the presentation of racism as part of the wallpaper of the time.
Catcher in the Rye has sex in it. Lord of the Flies (like The Chocolate War) upsets people who believe that children should unquestioningly obey authority.
You gotta love librarians. They really believe in this free speech thing, and really believe in the broad dissemination of ideas. 7853. Macnas - 10/5/2005 2:52:03 PM Ah well, we should read whatever we fecking well like to, that's what I think. 7854. Macnas - 10/5/2005 2:55:11 PM Reading for Irish leaving certificate this year:
Shakespeare - Hamlet
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
J.M Synge - Playboy of the Western World
John McGahern - Amongst Women
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
|
