Please Vote for the Book You Want to Read

[Magenta]

I am quite amused at how we have derailed Galatea's thread to talk of the Bible

With my apologies to the lovely lady

Naboth, if I may be so bold, is your favourite colour green?

 

[Naboth]

I am quite amused at how we have derailed Galatea's thread to talk of the Bible

With my apologies to the lovely lady

Naboth, if I may be so bold, is your favourite colour green?

Well it is the greatest book ever written.

Lol not meaning too much of a derail, I guess we're all still waiting to vote. I am surprised the fair and lovely maiden of Tea Galas hasn't offered her sage insights.

Sure green is okay I guess. Let me wrongly guess; yours is probably the color blue lol.

 

[Galatea]

Well then you see, ain't so different from rap music excepting that the rappers, the illustrious poets of the modern age, actually have some bearing to the truth in their verses lol.

Lol no joke on Jane Austen and Fifty Shades of Gray. I mean they're written to the same audiences for the same purposes. Just different female fantasies is all.

As for the works of the greeks, I confess I have read them up and down and all around. I've been reading the stories of the inglorious white forefathers since the 1st grade. I actually quite agree with your assessment, to which I'd add even stripping away their daemonic religion that inside their tales contains all the sins still common to the Western races even in today's time. Some things just never change.

Oh I know the librarians and the poets have much different tastes and opinions. My sister was a librarian lol. The librarians and the highly educated elite find their tastes in our works ever looking for perfection in aestheticism. The poets are so much different, living inside their poems, breathing in and out the sordid tales of people most base and common in a tragic ugly world. A cathartic people they are indeed. Oh Dante, oh Sophocles, oh Poe! I'd wager a hefty sum the elite uppercrust that loves their poems so wouldn't even look sideways at those tortured vagrants if they ran into their souls.

Yet I see and agree somewhat how their differences compliment and feed each other. How God makes the opposites attract it seems. Why does the poor rapper verse about how he wants his riches to grow? Why does the elite delight in the plight of the poor man's woes? The wealthy reader craves a base man's prose. The lowly poet takes inspiration in his muse!

I wish you' quit rhapsodizing about rap music as if it were something beautiful. It is vile. The lyrics are disgusting. Word choice is kind of important.

Of course, that is my opinion.

 

[Galatea]

I see where you are coming from. But we are not rich -- and the old man had other qualities not many now can appreciate esp knowing how to talk with himself as the psalmist who said, 'Why so downcast O my soul... put your hope in God.' We also happen to have had a pastor before who was a (poor) fisherman (he said), not a rich commercial one. A small handsome man, you can admire how he teaches tho, and notice how dark he is having been in the sea so often.

I did not mean to insult you and your family. I meant to insult Hemingway. He was a rich big game hunter and sportsman. His mind is not the same as a poor man's mind. When I read, Santiago felt like an inauthentic character to me. Of course I was in the ninth grade and all of fourteen- so I may change my mind if I read it again.

 

[preacher4truth]

I wish you' quit rhapsodizing about rap music as if it were something beautiful. It is vile. The lyrics are disgusting. Word choice is kind of important.

Of course, that is my opinion.

Here you go, some people like this guy a lot. He's pretty sound doctrinally IMO:

[video=youtube;MaYsruRT0d4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaYsruRT0d4[/video]

 

[Galatea]

Here you go, some people like this guy a lot. He's pretty sound doctrinally IMO:

[video=youtube;MaYsruRT0d4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaYsruRT0d4[/video]

I appreciate the post, I really do. But I just don't like rap music. I listened to a minute of it and could take no more. Word choice is important, and this is different than secular rap. But I just can't abide the style as well as the substance. If I HAD to listen to rap music or die a horrible death, I'd listen to this.

 

[Desdichado]

Frosty Jar!!!!

Here you go, some people like this guy a lot. He's pretty sound doctrinally IMO:

[video=youtube;MaYsruRT0d4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaYsruRT0d4[/video]

 

[Naboth]

I wish you' quit rhapsodizing about rap music as if it were something beautiful. It is vile. The lyrics are disgusting. Word choice is kind of important.

Of course, that is my opinion.

Lol I'm going to take this as a compliment of my prose and grant your wish even though your opinion is askew. Not setting a precedent though, that is only for you.

 

[OwzK]

Never heard of any of these but voted for L'Mort D'Arthur because it sounds historic and interesting

 

[Magenta]

Lol I'm going to take this as a compliment of my prose and grant your wish even though your opinion is askew. Not setting a precedent though, that is only for you.

I would say that anyone who compares Pride and Prejudice to filthy shades as if they were equally to be considered smut, is a person whose opinion is askew.

 

[hornetguy]

is a person whose opinion is askew.

I like the rhythm of that phrase.... it could be worked into a song, by someone of that bent....

 

[Naboth]

I would say that anyone who compares Pride and Prejudice to filthy shades as if they were equally to be considered smut, is a person whose opinion is askew.

Lol tell us about Lydia.

 

[Naboth]

I like the rhythm of that phrase.... it could be worked into a song, by someone of that bent....

A person whose opinion is askew
I just a human too
Don't feel black and blue
I have an opinion, and so do you
Then something about a walrus for the sake of rhyming
Koo-koo-ka-choo.

 

[Galatea]

Never heard of any of these but voted for L'Mort D'Arthur because it sounds historic and interesting

I voted for L'Morte d'Arthur, too. It's about King Arthur and the legends of the Knights of the Round Table. Not history, but legend. I read it years ago, but kind of liked the idea of reading it again. It looks like the popular choice is 1984, which is interesting since the popularity for the book has exploded. I am curious to see how Conservative viewpoints about the book will be different from Liberal viewpoints, since both sides can claim the book. I don't know who is a political Liberal besides Peacenick, so hopefully he will read and give us his opinions. Thanks for voting, and I hope you decide to read with us.

 

[Magenta]

Lol tell us about Lydia.

What is to tell? Your innuendos are inexcusable. Nothing was explicit. To compare them shows some sickness of mind on your part.

 

[Magenta]

I voted for L'Morte d'Arthur, too. It's about King Arthur and the legends of the Knights of the Round Table. Not history, but legend. I read it years ago, but kind of liked the idea of reading it again. It looks like the popular choice is 1984, which is interesting since the popularity for the book has exploded. I am curious to see how Conservative viewpoints about the book will be different from Liberal viewpoints, since both sides can claim the book. I don't know who is a political Liberal besides Peacenick, so hopefully he will read and give us his opinions. Thanks for voting, and I hope you decide to read with us.

L'Morte d'Arthur is the one I voted for as well

 

[Naboth]

What is to tell? Your innuendos are inexcusable. Nothing was explicit. To compare them shows some sickness of mind on your part.

Lol oh dear, was she your favorite character?

 

[Galatea]

What is to tell? Your innuendos are inexcusable. Nothing was explicit. To compare them shows some sickness of mind on your part.

We should force him to read every Austen novel and confess to the beauty of her cannon of work, and to recant his idiotic comparisons.

 

[Magenta]

I find it funny too that you see no difference between music that is known for calling
women *****es and hos and music that uplifts Jesus Christ as the hope of the world
and the One worthy of our praise and worship. To say your conflations are inexplicably
peculiar would be an understatement. Telling us that P&P is comparable to trashy smut
really is inexcusable. Your inability to separate the gutter from the idealism of seeking
all that is good and true in order to live in that goodness is disturbing and perplexing.

Plus you kept trying to stick on my daughter and me some attachment to smut that
does not belong to either of us, as if you could not leave the idea alone, harping on it
over and over again. Your motivation for doing so I cannot know. You think I would be
surprised at your idea of love? I don't think you know it yourself.

 

[Magenta]

Lol oh dear, was she your favorite character?

She was annoying, so no, not my favourite character by a long shot. You gloss over the very valid criticism. I can understand why you would not want to deal with it. Your choice, after all.