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  1. nwee

    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...
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    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"...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Is Beady Eye and High Flying Birds better than Oasis ?

    Is it me, or the seperate bands Beady Eye (led by Liam, plus the rest of Oasis) and High Flying Birds (with Noel), better than Oasis ? See, I could never get into Oasis, but I gave a try to the Beady Eye & High Flying birds albums, & oh boy am I impressed. Then I gave another try at Oasis...
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    E.M. Forster: Howards End

    :stars4: "Life's going to be melted down, all over the world." (Helen, upon observing the red dust beyond the meadows of Howards End, approaching slowly but steadily) An absolute work of Art which focuses on the successful cosmopolitan types as represented by the Wilcoxs’ & the more...
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    What 2011 releases are you listening to ?

    Me ? Duran Duran (all you need is now) :stars4:& Radiohead (king of limbs) :stars4:, and that is half a star more than AMG gave for both
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    All time favourite Albums

    If you are to get marooned in an island (which some have electricity to operate you CD player ), which albums would you like to be stuck with ? My list ? ok computer - Radiohead wish you were here - pink floyd dark side of the moon - pink floyd automatic for the people - REM in rainbows -...
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    George Michael

    Listening to "Listen without Prejudice Vol.I":stars5: I have often wondered how ironic that the very prejudice that Michael wanted his audience to shun & take note of him as a serious artist, brought upon the downfall of this once very promising artist. After the pop superstar status of Faith...
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    Prince

    What's up with Prince ? The latest I hear of him is that his latest album, titled 20ten was distributed abandoning his retailers for newspaper giveaway. And according to AMG, it sounds like it !! What are the views of others, on possibly the most talented Rock Musician on earth making...
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    What albums have interested you thus far in 2010

    yep... as for me: Rain on the City - Freedy Johnston (a long awaited return by him, though not as great as his previous issues ) Scratch my back - Peter gabriel (a truly great CD) soldier of love - sade ( you know sade, is well, sade ) plastic beach - gorillaz New Amerykah Pt.2 - Erykah...
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    The Best albums for 2009, thus far

    Hello All, I am in the habit of sellcting 15-20 albums of artistes that I like each year, and from them try to recognize which are the albums best albums. So far I've given the following albums a careful listen: Whisper House (Duncan Sheik) No line on the horizon (u2) Abnormally...
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