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Forum: Media 03-11-2023, 07:45 AM
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Posted By Lisnaholic
There's no way I'd go on a road trip with...

There's no way I'd go on a road trip with 51-year-old Deborah Lacks, but there is also no way in a zillion years that she ever would have invited me. It took intrepid science student and (now)...
Forum: Media 12-16-2022, 08:19 AM
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Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
You probably won't recognise the title, Cielito...

You probably won't recognise the title, Cielito Lindo, but I bet you'll recognise the swaying hook line: "Ay Ay Ay Ay, Canto y no llores":

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Best known Mariachi song in the world, I...
Forum: Media 07-18-2022, 04:00 PM
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Posted By Lisnaholic
^ Yes, nice song, Pet Sounds. I particularly...

^ Yes, nice song, Pet Sounds. I particularly liked the acoustic guitar interlude at 1:50 seconds. I read Márquez's novel, but so long ago that I can't help in tracing influences from novel to song...
Forum: Media 04-23-2022, 08:24 AM
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Posted By Lisnaholic
When she was 36, Monica Ali's first novel, Brick...

When she was 36, Monica Ali's first novel, Brick Lane, was published to great critical acclaim. Her novel is most notable for its subject matter: exploring the often hum-drum life of a Bangladeshi...
Forum: Media 01-03-2022, 06:45 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
A lot of writers, both published and unpublished,...

A lot of writers, both published and unpublished, start out with that semi-autobiographical novel that looks at a young persons coming of age or their early adult years. Colin Wilson, who went on to...
Forum: Media 11-22-2021, 07:39 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
Yeah, thanks for the comment, Batlord, but quite...

Yeah, thanks for the comment, Batlord, but quite possibly he was neither a communist nor brave: just a scared 16-year-old kid trying to keep his courage up by singing a song from his childhood. :(...
Forum: Media 07-25-2021, 03:46 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
However passionately we might issue death threats...

However passionately we might issue death threats to each other in the Beatles vs Beach Boys threads, one thing's for sure: music isn't actually a matter of life and death for us.

Sadly, it could...
Forum: Media 07-14-2021, 11:38 AM
Replies: 47
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Posted By Lisnaholic
J.D.Salinger has a special place in modern...

J.D.Salinger has a special place in modern literature. Who else is so famous for one book and for being so reclusive? That’s why I can totally recommend Ian Hamilton’s attempt to puncture the myth, ...
Forum: Media 05-29-2021, 07:37 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
I can recommend Joseph Piercy’s book, The Story...

I can recommend Joseph Piercy’s book, The Story of English. At 180-odd pages, he has kept his historical overview short enough to stay interesting throughout, and either he or his publishers have...
Forum: Media 05-15-2020, 03:50 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
If you measure these things by number of people...

If you measure these things by number of people affected over quantity of time, then the slave trade out of Africa must be one of the cruellest things ever visited on a continent. Plenty of countries...
Forum: Media 12-29-2019, 10:47 AM
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Posted By Lisnaholic
But it's not really about Musical Books at all,...

But it's not really about Musical Books at all, Batlord. Actually you were much closer to the idea back on page 1 of this thread, when you started explaining about your thread reviewing the music...
Forum: Media 12-29-2019, 10:33 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
:laughing: Rather unusually, I explained the idea...

:laughing: Rather unusually, I explained the idea of the thread in the OP. I naively imagined it would be full of other people's discoveries, although it has since turned into a journal in all but...
Forum: Media 12-29-2019, 10:14 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
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Forum: Media 12-29-2019, 08:59 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
:laughing: The coming back after you're dead, or...

:laughing: The coming back after you're dead, or the changing from Hungarian Jew to Trinidadanian Negro ? Either one would be pretty impressive, but to pull off both at once :clap:
Forum: Media 12-29-2019, 08:47 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
^ haha! ten out of ten for getting your Houdini's...

^ haha! ten out of ten for getting your Houdini's in the right chronological order!

The other Houdini:


This Houdini:



I wonder if there's a Houdini out there who was actually born with...
Forum: Media 12-29-2019, 07:59 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
An elite band of journalists are remembered by...

An elite band of journalists are remembered by name for decades, and, in my experience, they are usually Americans: Mark Twain, Hunter S. Thompson, Woodward and Bernstein. Not in that pantheon,...
Forum: Media 09-15-2017, 05:59 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
John Fowles' second novel The Magus made a huge...

John Fowles' second novel The Magus made a huge impression on me when I read it as a teenager. Now I'm rereading the account of protagonist Nicholas Urfe, specifically as he spends his second weekend...
Forum: Media 07-18-2017, 04:33 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
Eye-witness accounts are often fascinating simply...

Eye-witness accounts are often fascinating simply because of the immediacy of having a person telling it like they saw it. It's the literary equivalent of a stranger in a bar who suddenly confides to...
Forum: Media 06-24-2017, 08:59 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
The great virtue of writing is, of course, its...

The great virtue of writing is, of course, its ability to transport you to a time and place you can never otherwise visit. Planet earth and human history is pretty big and I found myself transported...
Forum: Media 04-30-2017, 04:24 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
In England, Joan Didion first rose to obscurity...

In England, Joan Didion first rose to obscurity when a book of hers with an eye-catching title was published in the sixties. Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a slice of social reporting about "things...
Forum: Media 04-16-2017, 07:29 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
Thanks for posting, P_S :thumb: Someone else's...

Thanks for posting, P_S :thumb: Someone else's contribution here is very welcome, because I hadn't intended this thread to be a monologue.

Hunky Dory is by a long lead my favourite Bowie album, so...
Forum: Media 04-15-2017, 12:18 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
When Martin Luther King was a young man his...

When Martin Luther King was a young man his father was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and it was there that...

"...as a young child Martin loved the footstomping gospel...
Forum: Media 03-05-2017, 10:39 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
Martin Amis, a British author whose most famous...

Martin Amis, a British author whose most famous book is probably Time's Arrow, suffered with really bad teeth from his teenage years onwards. Bad teeth is something that the Brits are famous for, so...
Forum: Media 02-16-2017, 10:59 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private...

The Life & Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin is a humourous novel written by Vladmir Voinovich in 1969, but is set in an earlier era. Not some great Russian classic, but it's amusing...
Forum: Media 12-17-2016, 06:59 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 5,754
Posted By Lisnaholic
^ Why not just pick it up from where you left...

^ Why not just pick it up from where you left off, at page 43 ? It's a great journal with some sharp thumb-nail-sketch reviews. In fact, you've inspired me to add reviews to my songs here. Thanks....
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