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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:32 pm
When it comes to opera I adore Wagner (who doesn't?) the Ring cycle is just amazing.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:33 pm
If you have 15 hours to spare, then yes. Otherwise, my shortened seven major arias do quite nicely.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:35 pm
Nelowulf If you have 15 hours to spare, then yes. Otherwise, my shortened seven major arias do quite nicely. True it is long as hell. On a side not Tolkien and C.S. Lewis would see the Ring cycle once a year, they adored it.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:35 pm
Funny, I always asocciate Wagner with Apocalypse Now.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:37 pm
Capn Deep Blusi Funny, I always asocciate Wagner with Apocalypse Now. Most people do, and that is how I find that many people get into Wagner. (I started listening to him when I was 15 and my English teacher played a selection of him for us when we were reading the legend that inspired the opera)
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:41 pm
Johnny Malone Nelowulf If you have 15 hours to spare, then yes. Otherwise, my shortened seven major arias do quite nicely. True it is long as hell. On a side not Tolkien and C.S. Lewis would see the Ring cycle once a year, they adored it. Ya think? I mean, isn't the copywrite infringement enough? Wagner redid the nibelunglied, who in turn had his crap redone by the dynamic duo.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:45 pm
Nelowulf Johnny Malone Nelowulf If you have 15 hours to spare, then yes. Otherwise, my shortened seven major arias do quite nicely. True it is long as hell. On a side not Tolkien and C.S. Lewis would see the Ring cycle once a year, they adored it. Ya think? I mean, isn't the copywrite infringement enough? Wagner redid the nibelunglied, who in turn had his crap redone by the dynamic duo. So I think we can all blame Wagner for the crappy fantasy novels that graced my summers in between periods of reading the classics. (Word to the wise: never EVER turn War and Peace into something to read while on vacation. It will consume all your time during the vacation which should be spent enjoying the beautiful countryside.)
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:48 pm
Pfft.
War and peace is just as it says. Throw in the fact the general's wife sleeps with everyone who dies (pretty much) and you got yourself a 900 page novel.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:50 pm
Nelowulf Pfft. War and peace is just as it says. Throw in the fact the general's wife sleeps with everyone who dies (pretty much) and you got yourself a 900 page novel. I prefer Dostoevsky over Tolstoy, but I thought War and Peace was a good read.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:55 pm
Checkov (sp) is a lot better than either. Its short, and still has that classic punch of russian literature, without maknig me feel as if I'm supposed to be as depressed as the rest of those suicidal authors.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:57 pm
Nelowulf Checkov (sp) is a lot better than either. Its short, and still has that classic punch of russian literature, without maknig me feel as if I'm supposed to be as depressed as the rest of those suicidal authors. For my money it will always be Dostoevsky, first time I read Crime and Punishment I was blown away. Yeah it is depressing, but the ending is so uplifting and full of hope.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:59 pm
If you consider the fact that he gets off murder in the first degree for only three years in prison, which two are spent in near-comatose state from getting his a** handed to him "uplifting and full of hope", then yes.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:28 pm
Nelowulf If you consider the fact that he gets off murder in the first degree for only three years in prison, which two are spent in near-comatose state from getting his a** handed to him "uplifting and full of hope", then yes. It's seven years in prison and I was referring to his redemption with regards to Sonya and God. The book is so much deeper than what you are portraying.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:34 pm
Thought it was three... knew it was a christen number...
And I portrayed it accurately. I'm just not going to speculate more than is required. Any douchebag can tell that dosdoyevski was a pure-bred christian. I figured that point would be moot, however, and taken for granted.
apparantly I was wrong.
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:36 pm
Nelowulf Thought it was three... knew it was a christen number... And I portrayed it accurately. I'm just not going to speculate more than is required. Any douchebag can tell that dosdoyevski was a pure-bred christian. I figured that point would be moot, however, and taken for granted. apparantly I was wrong. Dostoevsky didn't become a devout Christian until after his imprisonment. (The portrayal of Raskolnikov's imprisonment is very similiar to the conditions that Dostoevsky himself went through. Although Dostoevsky was locked up for being a political radical and never commited a murder.)
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