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I totally agree, and you put it much more concisely than I probably would have done. Anyone and everyone can be illogical on occasion, but people who embrace illogicality, who elevate emotion even when visibly contrary to logic,( and there are so many,) scare, depress, and sometimes...

Do you mean children=pre-teens, or would you include Young Adult books, which would open the choices enormously. I can't really remember much about my earliest reading, though I know it included the train series by Reverend Awdry. By the time I reached double figures I was wolfing down...

A Listener, thanks for this video/film. I don't know much about jazz, but I like what I've heard, mostly. In the 60's, when I started going to "clubs" (God, that dates me!) many of which were simply the back room of a pub, the music was usually Traditional, with a group of bank clerks and...

I came across this thread while browsing through the old dusty archives of the Forum a while ago. Since then it has acquired an irritating tendency to sneak into my head while I am doing something more interesting and important, such as feeding the dogs or trimming my nails. (Actually, sarcasm...

a) Neat post, trappa. b) I'm listening to (today, not all at once): Mozart-Marriage of Figaro Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis ( a strong contender for the most beautiful piece of music ever written) Brass Monkey-Sound and Rumour Baltimore Consort-The Art of the Bawdy...

. Great stuff! Speaking of Seasons, do you know Glazunov's "The Seasons"? It was composed about 200 years after Vivaldi's , and in a totally different style, of course, but it has some splendid music. Autumn, in particular, has an exhilarating, bounding melody that you might well recognize...

Thanks. I appreciate your polite and friendly response, as on reflection I think I might have come across as a bit aggressive. Your points do make sense, and I see that having ICE threads and posts appearing indiscriminately among the other, all-member, notifications of new posts and searches...

( as you can see from the post above, as a technology-challenged computer dummy I send blank posts occasionally. Apologies.) "..they don't post on BAR" Or something like that. If I go back to check the exact wording, I'll lose the whole kit and caboodle. It's happened before. Actually, they do...

My apologies, Meadow337. I'm quite sure sparkchaser has done something recently that deserved thanks, but YOU were the one who cleaned up my twisted text. Thank you.

sparkchaser, thanks for hiding my techno-dummy status. Computers and me, we just don't get along nohow. So I'm typing really short lines to see if that works.

Leading to a kind of "cultural correctness". You're SUPPOSED to like these books (or paintings, music) and if you don't, this is a reflection on you, to be pointed out in condescending tones.* If you don't think it's anything special, that's because you can't understand it, and maybe won't...

Elizabeth George. Anything, everything by Elizabeth George. "She never makes a point in a paragraph when she can stretch it out to a couple of pages" as a perceptive critic(me) wrote on Amazon. In the Mystery field, at least, she defines longwindedness. (If thats not a word, it should be)

Kathy, I am just trying to see if I can get through. If I can, I'll send a longer message and explain. Colin

Kathy, just trying to see if I can get through. I deleted myself; I think I'm back in, at least my name is back on the Members List, from which it had vanished earlier. I've been bugging Maine for days, and I think she deserves a break. So you're next on my list of People Who Responded...