Posted on 06/07/2022 1:51:47 PM PDT by navysealdad
What’s next?? Dr. Zhivago?
Love Beloe Zlato! Thanks!
Russians do love their awful pop music, though. But it is SO much tamer than ours, so innocent in comparison:
https://www.rbth.com/arts/334590-russian-songs-2021
#3 is so typical of Russian humor — and everywhere are mud puddles and potholes.
It’s just awful in the sense it’s commercial synthesizer fare that all sounds the same. In fact, it sounds the same as the pop music it was so hard to escape in Russia back in the 1990s. Hardly changed at all.
There was a truly great music video back around 1997 that played often on Russian TV. It was making fun of the old commie life in a kommunalka back in Soviet days. All these different characters sharing a kommunalka, including a tall stoic Chukchi* guy trying to navigate through the prostitute’s stockings hung up to dry as he makes his way along the long line waiting for he bathroom. The grannies, mothers and the lady of the evening all trying to cook in the crowded kitchen. Squirming kids trying to squeeze through all those adults in crowded hallway, etc. It was hilarious. Russian humor at its best. Wish I could find it on the You Tubes.
*He looked remarkably like the guy top circle here:
https://www.jimmynelson.com/people/chukchi
As a kalimba player myself, I like this young lady. This one is very Russian:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IxHGhgVIg
THE Russian lullaby surprisingly rich and sweet on ukelele:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-tHUNpDEU
She’s quite talented at mixing, too. Four-part kalimba Sound of Silence:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4O0ZOUBvIU
As for American popular music, just nasty! And the videos are nasty pron. We are in the gutter.
I got really started in reading at the age of 13 when I got bored with what was on TV and found CAPTAIN BLOOD at the school library. Then it was the Capt Blood Trilogy, the Beau Geste Trilogy and the Captain Horatio Hornblower trilogy. Soon it was Coronado’s Children and Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver. Northwest Passage and Drums along the Mohawk.
By the age of 14 I managed to talk the local city library into an adult card and from then on I have read hundreds of books.
While I was into more adventure novels and good SI-FI I read Frankenstein, Dracula and fell in love with the Lovecraft stories. Issac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
At 75, I still love to read and would rather read than watch the trash on TV.
Strange, in all this I never cared for teen novels or westerns.
Read that early this year. Twice! First to see how it compared with the movie, and then seriously read it.
Great book but first you have to get the movie out of your mind.
Get Julie Christie (Lara) out of my mind? Never.
in many English speaking parts of the world, “war and peace” is slang for something that you’ll never get to the end of it.
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I read the original version of Les Misérables, two thick volumes of more than anyone would ever want to know about the French Revolution.
Les Misérables, covers the time period 1815 to 1832.
Not what everyone thinks of as the French Revolution (5 May 1789 to 9 November 1799 - 10 years, 6 months and 4 days). Les Misérables, ends in 1832 - with the June Paris Rebellion. A minor dust up in comparison! Originally it was broken up into 5 volumes.
We supported people who banned “French Fries” and “Hamburgers” didn’t we?
No different than the US tearing down statues...even including Jefferson.
And every time he mentions Lara in the book I saw Julie Christie. She is all through the book, from when he was a small boy.
Spoiler alert. The woman he sees walking down the street and he has a heart attack was not Lara. He also had a third wife not mentioned in the movie.
How many of us had to pretend to read that in High School?
Thanks.
Bkmk 4 later.
Thanks for mentioning new books to read.
Maybe when I retire I’ll have time...
Things like this happen in war.
I read it (in a modern English translation) when I was 12.
Its not THAT hard. The worst part of it are the philosophical-sociological-”spiritual” digressions. In that its akin to, say, “Atlas Shrugged”. Otherwise its a very good soap opera (” Will Natasha find love? “), with compelling characters and a fascinating setting.
One problem with it is that business of Tolstoys philosophy. His effective deification of the Russian peasantry is going to grate on people unsympathetic to Russians. A corrective to that, if you want one, is Maxim Gorky. His peasants are animals.
“You can stop clutching your pearls”
I thought it was the Babylon Bee clutching their pearls—it is hard to tell these days.
Mein Kampf’s first three chapters are well worth a read. Its quite a compelling character study, by the worlds most egregious unreliable narrator. There are a couple of excellent English translations that, I understand, surpass the original German. I certainly would put those chapters in a high school class. The rest of it is truly tedious inside baseball of German 1920s politics and media controversies. Dont bother.
The most fascinating questions about this conflict in 50 years’ time will be directed not at Russia’s motives which are very well documented, but at understanding the motives and actions (and desired outcomes) from the NWO which are far less transparent.
Actually, the “NWO” is busy pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Russia’s war economy every single day. Germany could easily use nuke power, LNG, etc. Instead, they are choosing to support Putinist Russia and fuel its genocide in Ukraine. Without that cash the Russian economy would collapse and they would be unable to make war.
Tolstoy took part in a lot of war. He was, in particular, at the siege of Sebastopol, which was an incredibly bloody business involving constant heavy artillery bombardments. His description of Borodino through the eyes of Pierre Bezukhov, new to war, is extremely compelling. That, most likely, is an accurate description of hus own mental state under those chaotic conditions.
Compare with his own eyewitness account of Sebastopol, the “Sebastopol Sketches”.
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