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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 12:34:44 AM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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I love Bocelli! Just listening to him shows the magnificence of God's work.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 12:39:44 AM
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Nessun Dorma is one of my favorites he does. Of course Ave Maria is up there. I also like Time To Say Goodbye.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 12:41:03 AM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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Schubert's arrangement of Ave Maria is my all time favorite though!
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 12:51:17 AM
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I love orchestra music. Last 4th of July we went to see the Charlotte Symphony in the park. They played all kinds of patriotic songs. There were fireworks, they raised the flag via a fire truck. It was all around a pond with the symphony in the middle of it on the deck. It was fabulous!
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 3:34:12 PM
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...great British choirs. There is one that is an all men's choir singing this song called "Sailing".
I LOVE all male choirs! And I think choral music is my favourite. I really miss singing in the church choir. I changed churches and the new church has a band instead of a choir. I so enjoyed the classical pieces we sang.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 10:31:58 PM
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I suppose that we can all agree that To Kill A Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are the three greatest American novels.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 10:33:39 PM
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AngelInWaiting1983
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Along with Gone With the Wind.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 11:08:46 PM
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My Top List of Novels
Rebecca
Gone With the Wind
1984
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
The Stand
The Haunting of Hill House
Anything by John Grisham
Anything by Agatha Christie
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 11:36:11 PM
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Grapes of Wrath took a a while to get "into."
I LOVED East of Eden though.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/27/2008 11:56:44 PM
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Of Mice and Men made me want to bang my head repeatedly on my desk...
Let's see, classics I like:
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
Fathers & Sons (I can't even remember what it was about, but I remember I loved it)
Brave New World (heathen that I am)
Frankenstein
Gulliver's Travels
The Invisible Man by Ellison
Anything by Jules Verne & Dickens
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/28/2008 1:52:07 AM
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ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw
I suppose that we can all agree that To Kill A Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are the three greatest American novels.
The first two were forced reads and I can't say I appreciated either. I was young, so I really should give them another try. I am definately not a Steinbeck fan. I do like Twain though, some of his books have a striking similarity to my favorite author, George MacDonald, who was also a contemporary of his. Though he is from Scotland, I read somewhere that they did meet at least once. I think it was on a book cover of a Twain book. I'm not sure which one.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/28/2008 6:53:25 AM
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I like George MacDonald, too, Nadine. I haven't read many of his books, the novels are sort of hard to come by in my experience. But the ones I have read I've loved.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/28/2008 8:19:21 AM
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The Good Earth
All's Quiet on The Western Front
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Killer Angels
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Dracula
The Haunting of Hill House
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/28/2008 8:57:04 AM
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The Good Earth made me ANGRY!!! I HATED Wang Lung because he treated O-lan so poorly but yeah, I know, culture and all that....I still hate him.
I LOVED Island of the Blue Dolphins!!!!!
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The first two were forced reads and I can't say I appreciated either. I was young, so I really should give them another try.
The only "forced read" I truly enjoyed reading was The Scarlet Letter. That said, as a kid I was forced to read, in school, Tom Sawyer and The Black Stallion. I hated them at the time, thought they were boring, blah blah blah.
For some reason when I got older I gave them a try and LOVED them - Tom Sawyer is re-read every couple of years, and Black Stallion just makes me cry. Definitely give To Kill A Mockingbird another try, you'll grow to love Boo Radley!!!! - and you might want to follow up that with John Grisham's A Time To Kill - not the same situation by any means but it involves the trial of a black man who killed two men who raped and maimed his 12 year old daughter for life. Very interesting story...
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/28/2008 9:02:40 AM
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That is what is good about The Good Earth...it evokes emotion from the reader.
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RE: The Culture Club - 8/28/2008 9:14:27 AM
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But I don't like to be ANGRY. Wuthering Heights annoyed me, but Good Earth ANGERED me. I wanted to rip it to shreds. But boy, did I feel bad for O-lan.
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