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uplandpoet

uplandpoet

NOTE: If you want to be my friend but do not accept a note from me, then I will decline!!
A couple of places to see my blogs and my poetry:
myspace.com/uplandpoet (new poem: At Home on the Street 12/09/09)
or http://www.thewritingforum.net/html/anthony_watkins_pg_1n.html
and if you are really brave, you can go to my short story... more »
  • West Palm Beach, USA
  • member since July 11 2007

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  • HemingwayHeroine

    HemingwayHeroine says

    I've never ready anything negative you've said about Hemingway, And it's okay by me anyway, so long as you are 'taking shots' in a sensible and intelligent way. Which I wouldn't doubt. I'd like to know your opinions. I've been following your discussions on The Great Gatsby. Liked what you had to say. And the way you said it.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    You think I shold do another submission now? Oy.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • lovemusic

    lovemusic says

    One thing I love about all these forums is the interesting people I meet. I am glad you are alive! Have you seen the new TV series Saving Grace on TNT? I looked into it because it has Heaven by Los Lonely Boys as the theme song. Give it a try.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • lovemusic

    lovemusic says

    Dear uplandpoet,
    Thank you for the note. I also respect your opinion and taste in Books. Believe it or not, I am living Atlas Shrugged to a certain extent.

    I spent 26 years in the Financial Services Industry fighting for excellence and getting the heck beaten out of me. I did accomplish a trememdous amount and made money, but never received the recognition. The fact that I believed in my mission was the reason I
    stayed. I reached a point where I just shrugged. I now live a simple life and dedicate myself to promoting music and books I love. For the past two years I have put my passion into promoting what I believe is excellence in music and literature without making a penny. I am also a Christian, and I completely give myself to the philosophy of "do unto others..." I know Ayn Rand did not believe in God. I think that she was misguided in that aspect. That's where I believe the "integrity" comes from.

    I am a much happier person for having followed her advice.

    Thanks for listening.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    She liked Trio!! Yaaay!! You've created a monster :-) The villagers will be out looking for me with their torches....

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    Yikes! Gonna go look... :-)

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Bodrugan

    Bodrugan says

    uplandpoet, have you read other books by Janice Holt Giles? I've read several, including Miss Willie and Hannah Fowler and others that I borrowed from the library. 40 Acres and No Mule is my favorite.

    Another favorite book of mine about Appalachia is James Still's River of Earth. Have you read it?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    27?? Wow!! I only had one comment--wonder what the others thought. I'm glad you encouraged me to do this--I feel quite good about it. Thankies!!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Peach

    Peach says

    Typo below: Should be, "This was not a recent phase." Sorry. ^_^ Need an edit button.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Peach

    Peach says

    Oh, hmm, well… I realized that they made the book into a comic book, so I remember Rima from the Super-friends cartoon. I even went through a brief stage of running around wanting to be Rima the Jungle Girl (this was when I was about 3… this was a recent phase ^_^; ). The comic was called “Green Mansions” too but I had no idea it was a novel.

    I didn’t want to traumatize you or give people the wrong idea about the book by including the picture of Rima from the cartoon (which was in the original post). They apparently made some very liberal changes to the character— I’m pretty sure that there were tons of other little girls who had never heard of the novel but would definitely remember the cartoon version.

    If you are still don't remember the cartoon, consider going to the following link:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Rima_superfriends_2.jpg
    ...very different from the novel.... Don’t say I didn’t warn you. ^_^;

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    I didn't mean of any poet in particular, actually. Which makes it an even more unfair question on my part. I meant: of them all, of all time, that sort of thing. Which is equally unfair, I know.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Alan

    Alan says

    I enjoyed your list of authors. But I noticed that you don't have Remarque's Arch Of Triumph on your shelf. I have found that is an unappreciated classic at Shelfari. I know that my suggestion is unsolicited, but I highly recommend it.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    I guess that primo spot means I graduated from motor-mouth to motor-fingers. Haha!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    No idea if it's masterpiece or no. See, Octavia Butler makes my list of favorites and I have read all of her in-print novels and stories. There is one novel that eludes me, her second. And that is the Survivor I'm chasing. Apparently, she was not at all pleased with it, and for as long as she lived made sure that it was never again in print. Of course, it's got me wild with curiosity to see what on earth she wrote that she thought so poorly of. Another shelfarian mentioned that she lucked out and got a copy from the clearance bin (50 cents) at her local Half Price Books, and since then I have haunted used book stores when and wherever I find them... hoping. Actually, more often than not, they have none of her books, which means either not as many people read them as should, or that her readers hang onto them for dear life.

    Fellow book nuts indeed! And, discipline be damned!

    Which is your favorite poem?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Peach

    Peach says

    Heh, nothing is up, really. ^_^

    I found out why Green Mansions sounded soooo familiar... You might be horrified by the the popularized version of Rima, though, so I thought better of the link in the post and deleted it. ^_^;

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    I read the classic--and really enjoyed it. A friend had said to me that she thought Melville was too wordy, and I wanted to see for myself. Well, yeah, wordy, but what wonderful words!! I found Queequeg (How the hell do you spell it) really fascinating! There's just something about a quiet guy carving a coffin, you know? I can't believe so many others haven't read it!! Should we be ashamed and we're just too stupid to know it? Are we the hopelessly unhip of the book world?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    The same seems to me to be true of either fundamentalism or atheism....how can you know when you ain't even dead?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • merle

    merle says

    Yes..Natalie Wood portrayed Marjorie in a movie...
    Good to know you..merle

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • poppet

    poppet says

    Thanks boss. It's really good of you to put it on NH for me. And when I get a minute I'll post on Thewritingforum. I so much appreciate your advice. I'm quite twitchy about feedback...I like my own writing, and the thought of someone picking it apart might feel to me like someone bullying my child. But I'm always mindful of being too thin-skinned, so this could be good free therapy.

    Reading Hitchens--God is Not Great. I am quite the little heathen these days for all that I was raised in a fundamentalist church.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • merle

    merle says

    Atkinson's best and it has lots of surprises..BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM. My fav Ruth Rendell is under Barbara Vine pseudonym..ANNA'S BOOK.
    I grew up in VA reading MMorningstar when I was about 14..I thought I was so sophisticated!! Of course I wanted to be Marjorie [Natalie Wood!!]
    merle

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
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