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Dixie Chicks - Fly
With barely a hint of melodrama, Dakota Suite shuffle in,
chime into the most painstaking, deliberate examination of every shade of blue and retire,
leaving not a dry eye in the house. "There's nobody in
Britain making a finer fusion of lush instrumentation and maudlin 3am country moods than Dakota
Suite." (London Sunday Times)
Rock
(classics)
Bob Dylan
and The Band - Before the Flood
(live) 
Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque
This album is full of catchy rock, compelling folk and touching love songs. By far,
Dylan's best album of the 80s.
Bestsellers
Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
A novel by Rebecca Wells
- Danzing
Aztecs by Donald E. Westlake
- The Doctor
Is Sick A very funny novel by Anthony Burgess
A Dead
Man in Deptford The Marlowe story told by Anthony Burgess
From the "master of the rolling scam," here is a hilarious crime caper set in New York. A hot hustler is searching for a million-dollar Aztec sculpture that is accidentally mixed with cheap plaster copies. From Harlem to Greenwich, a motley cast chases the lost piece.
Best books of
the 20th Century
Robertson Davies - The Deptford Trilogy : Fifth Business - The Manticore - World of Wonders
"Who killed Boy Staunton?"
This is the question that lies at the heart of Robertson Davies's elegant
trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders.
Indeed, Staunton's death is the central event of each of the three novels. In the first
book, Fifth Business, Davies introduces us to Dunstan Ramsey and his "lifelong
friend and enemy" Percy Boyd Staunton, both aged 10...
White Noise by Don DeLillo
It's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a
particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small
college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical
plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous....
Don DeLillo is an American genius. White Noise
captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned
enough to kill itself.
Highly recommended.
Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900. It tells the story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was.
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the
Baskervilles
We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor...
Music books
Claude DEBUSSY
: An Essential Guide to His Life and Works (Classic Fm Lifelines Series) by Jonathon Brown
The grandfather of grunge... A legend.
Mystery & Thrillers
- Richard Stark (aka
Donald E. Westlake) - The Damsel
(A Grofield novel)
Donald
E. Westlake - Don't Ask
(Dortmunder series)In his most incredible caper, Dortmunder is hired to steal the femur of a 16-year-old girl who was canonized because, 800 years ago, she was killed and eaten by her family. Now two European countries and the Catholic church are fighting like dogs over the bone. How will this free-for-all end? Don't Ask.
Film books
Paul Alexander - Boulevard of
Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean
40 years after his death, James Dean remains an icon of American pop culture. Dean, Paul Alexander claims, "brought something new to sex--an ambiguity, an openness, an androgyny that had not been there with other Hollywood stars." Boulevard of Broken Dreams explores the personal struggles of the powerful actor and explains how Dean's sexual ambivalence and hidden homosexuality affected his life and made him such a believable on-film rebel.
Movies
Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, et al.
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Edition Details: VHS
NTSC format (for use in US and Canada only)
- Down by Law takes place in Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes -- suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!"
- "Yes. A close study of my face after watching this
masterpiece would conclude that tears had escaped my eyes. But a tear is not necessarely a
tear. I, for once, cried of laughter." (A viewer)
Games
Diablo 2
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& Transputer Qasar. 1999-2000.
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