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Rap is not a winner with me. Again

Whatever you say Peder. Whatever you say.

Peder, I ask you, in your conscience now, if you could go back in history and grant ANY of the parties opposed to Hitler, including the communist party, power in Hitler's stead, knowing what you know now of the history of Hitler's tenure as leader of Germany, wouldn't you do it? We can theorize...

Howdy Joe. Just had my first experience with a Kindle this week. It was a hoot. Congratulations on your purchase. ..... and ..... WELCOME TO THE FORUM !!!!

My radio - my station. Radio off if others object or to hell with them?

I love this type of book. I picked up a book once in a bookstore which discussed how history would have been changed had some trivial detail not happened in the past. It was mesmerizing. I didn't have enough money on me at the time to buy it and I swore I would go back but never did. I'm glad...

I liked the fact that the movie followed the storyline closely. As is often the case movie directors can decimate a book with their "creativity". With regard to the appearance of the Katniss character I can only say that she was indeed not PRESENTED as glamorous though I feel that the actual...

Welcome bluntalan!!! Glad to have you aboard !!!

I agree with Roxy. Picasso was a excellent artist in the classical tradition but later, as we know, became most famous for his abstract, cubist art. What is written below is a bit off-topic but speaks to the transition from "literal" artistic rendering to the abstract. Art (in this case I am...

@ Sneezy - I am not much of an art critic. It's better than I can do but that is certainly not saying much. Another interesting fact I learned from the book was that though Hitler's school marks were atrociously bad a university (I think it was) in Vienna offered the equivalent of a scholarship...

I also TOTALLY agree with your opinion of Hemingway ... VERY much so .... but I'm already fuming over Joyce so don't get me started on Hemingway or I'll probably have a stroke .................... or something ................ *LOL*

Nopie .... by "Hey Boo moment" I was referring to a literary cliche' which has entered the lexicon referencing the moment that Scout Finch realizes that the strange man standing in the corner in the book To Kill A Mockingbird is Boo Radley. For many readers (including this one) Scout's...

You are quite correct to say that Sylvia Beach's opinion of Joyce differs from my own. She was a far, far better person than I am and in fact I cannot think of anyone I have ever known in my entire life who would have been so forgiving of Joyce's treatment had it been directed at them rather...

@Conscious Bob - I admire Sylvia Beach for the person she was and what she contributed to the English language literary community of the Parisian Left Bank. Read the book I mentioned in my previous post or her own book entitled Shakespeare and Company and you will understand why I feel as I do...

I am not into si-fi but read Ender's Game at the suggestion of a coworker whose opinion I trusted several years ago. The premise involves the training of children to be future battle commanders in an ongoing war with an alien race. The last battle occurred about 70 years before the setting of...

If anyone is interested there is a book called Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Fitch which deals in large part with the publication of Ulysses. Once having read this book I can almost guarantee that if you are made of human flesh your disgust with James Joyce will know no bounds. He...

Roxbrough - I have not read Fatherland by Robert Harris. Thank you for calling it to my attention. Sneezy - Eric Hoffer, who may have been the author your professor was quoting, is a very interesting case study in his own right. He was entirely self-educated and supported himself as a produce...

It seems both you and Roxbrough like this book and that's good enough for me. I will begin looking for it post haste, and thank you.

Just to touch upon something Raspunsel said: From the book (Rise & Fall) I came away with the feeling that Hitler WAS intensely patriotic toward Germany which appears odd at first glance because he was actually born in Austria. While reading this book and taking everything into account regarding...