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  1. nwee

    Booker Prize 2014

    "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" is quite brilliant.....
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    Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch

    The Goldfinch - Donnat Tartt ( Winner of Pulitzer prize for Fiction, 2014) =================================================== **** The Goldfinch, is in every possible way, a novel based on contemporary American Life, although it is integrated with Arts of the Dutch Golden Era. The Goldfinch...
  3. nwee

    Shakespeare's Plays

    Hi, I haven't read much Shakespeare, and I thought of giving them a read - and I read Henry VIII and also watched the BBC production of it (before that it was "all's well that end's well" - yes, it was not a great start.) Tell me I am wrong, but was Shakespeare playing up to Queen Elizabeth I...
  4. nwee

    E.M. Forster

    I've read: Howards' End A room with a view Maurice Passage to India , and liked each and everyone of those books. A great Author!
  5. nwee

    grammy nominess for the album of the year

    The list is : Babel - Mumford and sons channel orange - Frank Ocean some nights - Fun. el camino - Black Keys blunderbus - jack white That blunderbus is a good album is accepted. Black keys is not that bad, but I fancied their previous effort, brothers - not this one. "channel orange"...
  6. nwee

    Best of 2012

    I agree with snowyowl that Norah Jones' Little broken hearts is an amazing album - along with "The idler wheel...." by Fiona Apple and "Privateering" by Matk Knopfler, this threesome probably makes my top three for 2012. Other albums which impressed me: Big Moon Ritual - Chris Robinson...
  7. nwee

    What are you listening to Right now?

    http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiRfbnvVeo Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Tulsa yesterday; the whole album is amazing!
  8. nwee

    What are you listening to Right now?

    Exciter - Depeche Mode
  9. nwee

    How Many Books In 2012?

    fifty in a good year, 30-35 in one where I've got to spend more time at work (i.e. even at home ) :-(
  10. nwee

    Recently Finished

    A room with a view - E.M. Forster :stars4:1/2 Maurice - E.M. Forster :stars4: The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad :stars4:
  11. nwee

    Best of 2012

    After listening to more than 30 albums, the following managed to attract my attention, more than the other albums did... The Idler wheel .... - Fiona Apple Little broken hearts - Norah Jones Oceania - Smashing Pumpkins the light the dead see - soulsavers Privateering - Mark Knopfler...
  12. nwee

    Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

    Heathcliff - hero or villain I was discussing this book with some people in FB group and the popular inclination is to portray Heathcliff as romantic wronged which results in a very degraded, vengeful, cruel man. However for me, I think Heathcliff had bad streaks by nature. Even before the love...
  13. nwee

    Saul Bellow: Herzog

    For me too this was a more difficult book to read - and complete. And once completed it paid put to any more efforts of reading Bellow. This is not to say that it is a bad book - just a trying one
  14. nwee

    Audio Books

    So the gist of the matter is, audio books are, quite an acceptable alternative for actually holding a book in one's hands, given the reader is acceptable, at least to some of us. And we still categorise it as "reading" a book.
  15. nwee

    James Joyce

    I haven't read Joyce ( & hence Dubliners nor Ulysis ) yet. Given the difficulty that people appear to have had with Joyce, am wondring whether a first attempt through an audio book (of either Portrait or Ulysis) could be a better way to approach the book, saving myself a second or a third read...
  16. nwee

    Audio Books

    Is listening to an audio book, equal to reading a book ? I am trying out my first audio book, for two reasons - one, for I cannot find a hard copy of the book that I am reading & secondly, I am hard pressed for time these days & have the e-book running on mp3 format in my CD player while I...
  17. nwee

    Man Booker Prize 2008

    Aravind Adiga's book is his letter or confession of the path he taken to become an Entreprenuer. From a birth in "darkness", it is the tale of a man as he assesses his very limited options to taste success. Once he was determined that he will break away from the prision or the "chicken coup", he...
  18. nwee

    What 2011 releases are you listening to ?

    The Best of 2011 I think I could place the following as the albums that I liked most... 1- all you need is now - Duran Duran :stars4:1/2 2- night of hunters - Tori Amos :stars4: 3- stone rollin' - Raphael Saadique :stars4: 1/2 4- seven seas - Avishai cohen :stars4: 5- mylo xyloto -...
  19. nwee

    What are you listening to Right now?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpEI6a2C180&feature=related .... Raphael Saadiq !!!! one of the highlights of 2011, for me..
  20. nwee

    What are you listening to Right now?

    ..and they threw me a lifeline.... ...confessing of giving in to guilty pleasures.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SEokhK2L7U
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