Warren Beatty: Reds (1981), Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Julie Christie: Heaven Can Wait (1978), Don't look Now (1973)
Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Charlton Heston: The Omega Man (1971), Planet of The Apes (1968)
Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man (1970), Straw Dogs (1971)
Rock Hudson: Seconds (1966)
John Hurt: Midnight Express (1978)
Walter Matthau: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Robert Redford: Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Donald Sutherland: Don't look Now (1973)
Another favourite of mine is Botticelli. Browsing through your list, you have newly-introduced me to another I particularly like: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
I know what you mean about Hardy. His descriptions of his characters' motivations can seem interminable, but I love the total package within each novel.
Which are your favourites??
I have also read (from your list)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (this year)
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
1984 - George Orwell
Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Candide - Voltaire
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel G. Marquez
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
What did you think of:
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
These are both on my list of all-time favourite books s
Great list - the ones you have completed already is very impressive. Which are your top three highlights?
If you visit London (where I work), there is lots of great architecture such as Big Ben and the Tower. Kings Cross railway station is amazing (where you can catch the Eurostar train to Paris or Brussels through the channel tunnel - I used to work at the tunnel). If you plan to explore Buckingham Palace, it is only open to the public for a short season during each year and you must book tickets in advance, so plan well ahead so as not to be disappointed. The London Eye was cool - I went during daylight hours but it is supposedly also very good at dusk or at night to see the lights.
If you visit Rome, the Collisseum is good but I was a little disappointed - there were dozens of street sellers outside with stalls selling cheap souvenirs, and there were actors (?) dressed up as Roman soldiers (for the tourists) in plastic armour waving plastic swords very unconvincingly, but still it's good to see. St Peters square is an absolute must - very impressive. I tried to get into see the cistine chapple but there was an incredibly long queue, so allow lots of time - I didn't have enough time. The gondoliers (in Venice) are very expensive so take plenty of money to be prepared.
I have a son and a daughter of my own (aged 20 and 18), and seeing them grow up is the peak of human existence - there is nothing to beat it.
Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company, The Firm, solo, Queen)
Some recommendations:
Warren Beatty: Reds (1981), Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Julie Christie: Heaven Can Wait (1978), Don't look Now (1973)
Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Charlton Heston: The Omega Man (1971), Planet of The Apes (1968)
Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man (1970), Straw Dogs (1971)
Rock Hudson: Seconds (1966)
John Hurt: Midnight Express (1978)
Walter Matthau: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Robert Redford: Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Donald Sutherland: Don't look Now (1973)
Another favourite of mine is Botticelli. Browsing through your list, you have newly-introduced me to another I particularly like: William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
I would have to include Francis Ford Coppola (1939) on my list (if I did one).
My favourite HP Lovecraft tales, which I can recommend, are:
The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward
The Lurker At The Threshold (Billington's Wood/The Manuscript of Stephen Bates)
Try this
HPL quoted as an influence William Hope Hodgson, who I found to be even better than HPL.
I can recommend WHHs:
The House On The Borderland
The Night Land
Check out this site: deathlist.net
'The Outsiders' (1983) is one of my all-time favourite movies.
I can recomend:
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Howards End (1992)
Check out this video   I made of a Peter Hammill live performance from a favourite album of mine.
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake is a masterpiece (at least the first two volumes, anyway).
Dying Inside is my favourite from my list of Robert Silverberg novels.
I know what you mean about Hardy. His descriptions of his characters' motivations can seem interminable, but I love the total package within each novel.
Which are your favourites??
I have also read (from your list)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (this year)
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
1984 - George Orwell
Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Candide - Voltaire
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel G. Marquez
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
What did you think of:
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
These are both on my list of all-time favourite books s
Interesting list, with not much fiction.
Which are your favourites?
I haven't read any philosophy but I should.
Great list - the ones you have completed already is very impressive. Which are your top three highlights?
If you visit London (where I work), there is lots of great architecture such as Big Ben and the Tower. Kings Cross railway station is amazing (where you can catch the Eurostar train to Paris or Brussels through the channel tunnel - I used to work at the tunnel). If you plan to explore Buckingham Palace, it is only open to the public for a short season during each year and you must book tickets in advance, so plan well ahead so as not to be disappointed. The London Eye was cool - I went during daylight hours but it is supposedly also very good at dusk or at night to see the lights.
If you visit Rome, the Collisseum is good but I was a little disappointed - there were dozens of street sellers outside with stalls selling cheap souvenirs, and there were actors (?) dressed up as Roman soldiers (for the tourists) in plastic armour waving plastic swords very unconvincingly, but still it's good to see. St Peters square is an absolute must - very impressive. I tried to get into see the cistine chapple but there was an incredibly long queue, so allow lots of time - I didn't have enough time. The gondoliers (in Venice) are very expensive so take plenty of money to be prepared.
I have a son and a daughter of my own (aged 20 and 18), and seeing them grow up is the peak of human existence - there is nothing to beat it.