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All I can tell you is that poetry is personal. You are not a Philistine, you just haven't found poems that turn you on. When you do you'll be amazed. """Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. " From a longer poem called The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Priest, a Rabbi and an alligator walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, a joke?"

Lonely is the Night -- Billy Squier

Tolls

Freedom

Only the Lonely -- Roy Orbison

Bland

Some of my favorite love stories in books, plays, and short stories, in no particular order. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare Peyton Place - Grace Metalious Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy From Here to Eternity - James Jones Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser Beren and Lúthien - J.R.R. Tolkien Tristan and Isolde - inspired by Celtic legend, particularly the stories of Deirdre and Naoise and Diarmuid Ua Duibhne and Gráinne.

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Binge watched the Netflix series Alias Grace. This series is based on the Margaret Atwood book; she also executive produced the series. Atwood is a gifted storyteller; Sarah Gadon is an excellent actress with a laudable oeuvre. Together they made a riveting series. When I read Margaret Atwood I think of the word, "touched" as used in the olden days. Never really sure if it's she or me that's touched, but it makes for interesting reading.

Cold

Only You (and You Alone) – The Platters

Brain Damage – Pink Floyd

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap -- AC/DC

The book I've found most disturbing may actually be a novella. I'm not going to research which because I still get a little freaked by it. The Stranger by Mark Twain. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not your childhood Mark Twain. I read it once, it freaked me out and I want nothing to do with it ever again. I read it decades ago when I wasn't nearly as jaded as I am now; nevertheless, that's one book I'd go a long way to avoid. Right now, I'm a little frightened around the edges just thinking about it.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your post, but Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Literary scholar Claudia Durst Johnson wrote what is widely considered the best critique of that book in: To Kill a Mocking Bird: Threatening Boundaries (1992).

You're right. The first one was for Butch and Sundance. I'm not really good with movies . The Princess Bride had me stumped for awhile. I thought it was a great movie and watched it every time I could, but I could never figure out why I liked it so much. I mean, I don't like Zombie flicks or shoot'em ups, But The Princess Bride struck me as a little immature, maybe better for kids, you know? Nevertheless I just enjoyed the heck out of it. Then I found out who wrote it and that explained everything. BTW, Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. That line cracks me up

Just as a sidenote, William Goldman won an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Princess Bride and another Oscar for the screenplay of All the President's Men. William Goldman is the younger brother of James Goldman who wrote the play, The Lion in Winter. Ha adapted the play for the film version and won an Oscar for the adaptation. The film was the first movie for Anthony Hopkins who played Richard the Lionhearted. Katherine Hepburn won her third Oscar for her role as Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Peter O'Toole was excellent as Henry II. You can't go wrong reading the Goldman brothers.

Oops, sorry about the spoiler. I'll try harder to avoid them.

True. It is nasty and disturbing.

Creature

Now that's balanced reading. One book is witty, light and ends happily; the other is sadder than dropping your two scoop butter pecan cone in the sand at the beach.

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