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Clemmie
18 yrs ago
"Let us imagine that Shakespeare found himself from boyhood fascinated by language, obsessed with the magic of words."
Clemmie
18 yrs ago
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Any other fans out there? I am completely addicted!
Clemmie
18 yrs ago
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Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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A beautiful, literate dissertation on what is most important in life, from a woman who never lost the core of her own being while married to the most famous man of the early part of last century. In a nutshell, life tast…
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
...my favorite movie BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, based on the Truman Capote's [small] book. I read the book because I loved the movie, but the book is darker and seedier - not really Audrey Hepburn material.
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939 version) - [Sigh].
I absolutely agree with THE GODFATHER (both I and II) - the sepia tint of the films were so atmospheric.
Two GREAT adaptation of John Steinbeck novels - OF MICE AND MEN (t…
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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Thanks to all of you who responded to my previous question about the inspiration for your love of reading. I found many of your inspirations inspirational!
Two of my favorite movies were adapted from two of my favorit…
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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It always shocks me how little young people read and how little they know or care about literature or poetry or classical music, or even classic movies. I can't remember the first book that was read to me or that I read.…
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
Love the phrase! I always have at least three books going at the same time - a book on CD in the car; a book on tape in my walkman for workouts; a bed/bath book; and sometimes one on the coffee table for browsing. At the…
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Re: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
Nann, my sincerest sympathies. I read/listened to the book as my husband was preparing to leave for Iraq last summer. He took it with him and listened to it over there. It helped us both immensely in dealing with with lo…
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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Thanks for the tip, dbienvenue! At least my husband's $80 won't be completely wasted. I have THE DUBLINERS on tape for my walks but, after ULYSSES, have been hesitant to plug it in.
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Re: In My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
I can't believe someone else has actually read this terrific book! I was in the midst of pre-med with an ultimate interest in rural medicine at the time I read it, but the book is about so much more and an absolutely stu…
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Will In The World, the Shakespeare biography
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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Has any read this yet? It brings 16th Century Elizabethan England to life, and I am beginning to see how a relative provincial found within himself such timeless truths. It was in competition with Ron Chernow's ALEXANDER…
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Re: The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
I just started this on CD and just read at another site that this book is meant to be heard. McLarty is an acclaimed Recorded Books narrator, and reads his own work here. He's off to a great start so far!
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Re: It seems to be taking me forever to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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My husband bought me the 41-CD unabridged ULYSSES for Christmas and the wonderful Irish narrator notwithstanding, listening to the first 18 CDs was sheer torture. Would it be sacrilege to say that Joyce is just a tad arr…
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Re: April 14th: What are you reading and give a mini review
Clemmie
19 yrs ago
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Just finished FATHER JOE: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra. The fact that Hendra is a "lengendary satirist" to whom nothing is sacred makes his abiding love for the awkward, unhip, uncool Benedictine monk all the…
