Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
^^ Very cool, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

I got a warm feeling just at the mention of Beverly (even though she was so fond of the cold). I do try to reread it every 5-10 years, just to be reminded about Peter Lake's world, and the definition of quality.

Oh, and the best thing about this book is that it keeps getting better; enjoy!
He is such a virtuoso - somehow he managed to take my tears away completely, just before she dies.
Iīm not completely sure - but it felt as if he pulled the blow, somehow magically, before it happens - the morgue scene shortly before and the little things after that.
Iīll stop spoiling now, if somebody else wants to read it..

DO IT - SOMEONE ELSE!!

Quote Originally Posted by shadowofwind View Post
I like his third symphony. My favorite violin concerto is Sibelius.
Thank You!!

Bringing the house down with Sibelius just now - and seems I am still built a bit close to the water, as we say in Germany..
This is a wonderful piece of music, shadowofwind - somehow I managed to almost completely forget him, too.
I love Brahms concerto for violins and piano G-Dur Opus 7 as well - to my shame the only work of his, which made it on my computer hard-drive.
This will be helped - I feel a classical music phase taking root!
I wonder what the "what are you listening to" crowd next door will think of that .. hehe

Bach never completely left me - but he is - donīt get me wrong here anybody - I love him with a passion - but he is sort of "easy listening" with his crystal-clear mathematical pieces in comparison. He gives me a sense of elation, and grips my heart with his music - but he doesnīt stir the yearning and inner emotional uproar - the problematic side of feeling (damn English sometimes.. I want my German..), as these two do.
Got to dig out good old Beethoven as well..

A shame, I stopped playing the violin after school, because I had been playing on one, which I got lent by the school, and had other things on my mind than saving money for my own one and go on learning.

Riiight - shame over - thank you two so much once more!