Books, Movies, Etc.
Literature Philosophy: Regarding my abilities as a critic I can assure the reader that I have none since I like just about everything I see, read, or hear on the theory that those who make these things are way more talented than I am. Nor am I much interested in deep analyses of books, music, or films. I like to let them flow past me and, hopefully, leave behind something of value.
Favorite Quote: Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. Anon.
New Reading: The Idiot - Dostoevsky, Remembrance of Things Past - Prouse
Parked: The World as Will and Representation, Plutarch’s Lives, Ulysses, Isaiah Berlin
Upcoming: one of the parked books.
Recommended by others: The Stones Cry Out ( Hikaru Okuizumi), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon), The Kite Runner
Trying to Play:
Edvard Grieg: Stemninger Op. 73, No.4 Folketone
Schubert Moments musicaux Opus 94 · D 780
Mozart Piano Sonata B flat K333, 1778
Favorite Movies: Fight Club, Gosford Park, Unbearable Lightness of Being, English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, everything by the Coen brothers, 101 Dalmations, Mary Poppins, many more.
Recently Watched Movies That I Liked:
The Simpsons, Rear Window, V for Vendetta, Crash, Sin City, The Lives of Others
The Edict
Saturday, 22 September 2007
According to the author, Bob Cupp, the first historical mention of golf was in an edict banning golf which was issued by King James II of Scotland in 1457. He assumes that golf must have been thriving in order to be the object of a ban. The book is his imaginary tale of how it might have been at
Atonement
Saturday, 22 September 2007
I bought this book in the Aberdeen airport on the way back from the recent golfing extravaganza. I was trying to rid myself of Scottish pounds.
The main reason I bought it was because of the author - Ian McEwan. I felt like I remembered reading good things about him in an issue of “The
The Simpsons Movie
Thursday, 6 September 2007
They say we men lose our sense of humor when we pass 40. Although I have found The Simpsons wildly funny in the past, and still love to watch the TV series, I felt that my sense of humor muscles were a bit out of shape when watching this one.
Granted, I smiled a hundred times watching it, but I
Rear Window
Thursday, 6 September 2007
It’s hard not to like Hitchcock’s movies although I know some who can’t stand any film more than 5 years old.
Jimmy Stewart always annoys me with that throaty voice and that innocent look. Grace Kelly is one of the finest looking women ever to have walked the earth. Fabulous.
There was some
The Razor’s Edge
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Somerset Maugham. No review here. Just recording that I read it for the second time during the summer vacation. Entertaining. I liked his characters although more fastidious critics criticize on on that point and many others.
It was an important book during my formative years. I liked the authors
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BOOKS, MOVIES, ETC
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