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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

 

the LibriVox readings of The Complete Book of Cheese (the author is a caseophile with great passion and humour for his subject' date=' but WHY did the LibriVox volunteers bother reading out the Index? The chapters read by a non-native speaker lead to the occasional cringe when one pronounces Worcestershire sauce, or onion, phonetically), and Andre Norton's [b']Time Traders[/b] (let down by the relatively poor quality of the recording, but you swiftly ignore the hiss and accent)

 

 

 

I think we have that book. Made me drool a bit to read it. Time Traders I have read also. Not my favorite Andre Norton, but okay. I think my favorites of hers are "The Jargoon Pard" and "The Crystal Gryphon"

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Should see her other stuff and the Covers. The Woman Covers songs you wouldn't think would work at all.....Became one of my favorite musicians overnight really and I've got an insanely broad and picky taste in music.

 

 

~Rex .....says you should hear her cover Chaka Kahn and the Bangels :D

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Picked up a 2-disk set of Cavalleria Rusticana ("Rustic Chivalry") and I Pagliacci ("The Clown") at the library yesterday. These are the operas that defi9ned the "Verismo" movement of taking the opera stage away from princes and palaces and putting it in the villages and towns of rural Italy. The two operas share a lot else in common, especially as each portrays a story of a woman who has been cruelly wronged, to whom fate shows absolutely no mercy. And the male leads in both pieces are utterly unsympathetic; the lead in Cav is a manipulative bastard who doesn't care about the lives he's ruined.

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