I thought I’d write about what I consider the best and worst in several areas. I’m not going to think about this a great deal. So I may later think of something better or worse, but it should be interesting.
- Art. BEST: The Group of Seven artists and I don’t think there is one of their paintings I don’t love. Tom Thompson is an honourary Group of Seven member and I love his paintings as well. WORST: Modern or contemporary art. I just don’t understand it!
- Music. BEST: Classical, especially Debussy, Chopin, Mozart. It lifts me up. WORST: Rap and Heavy Metal. I just don’t understand it!
- Movie (Musical). BEST: Sound of Music. Never get tired of watching it. It was the first movie I went to with my now Hubby. WORST: The Fantastics. I didn’t get past about 15 minutes but it has one thing going for it – Try to Remember, a lovely song, sung by Ed Ames and others.
- Movie (Drama). BEST: The King’s Speech. A great movie. I could watch it again. WORST: I’ve obviously blanked out the bad movies because I can remember some of them but not their names.
- Movie (Romantic). BEST: Pride and Prejudice. My all-time favourite. WORST: Nights in Rodanthe. A total waste of time, and not even romantic.
- Book (Mystery). BEST: Agatha Christie is still the Queen of mystery writers. My favourite is The Man in the Brown Suit. WORST: Miss Seeton Solves the Case. Terrible writing and the story wasn’t great.
- Book (Fiction). BEST: Pride and Prejudice again. The characters, the story, the setting. All perfect. WORST: I don’t think I can pick one. There are a lot of good books and a lot of bad books out there.
- Book (Non-fiction). BEST: Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell. I was captivated from the first page to the last. WORST: Some of the “diet” books I’ve read or tried to read. Many are filled with questionable “facts”. I remember one that said you had to eat a ton of sugar to lose weight.
I may think of a few more categories for a further post. Best and worst sport, job, etc.
Do you have any “bests” or “worsts” to share?
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I LOVE heavy metal music!!! Poor you having to put up with me listening to all that stuff when I was younger! 😀
I just don’t get it!!! I’m sure I brought you up properly! What ahppened to you?
I’m with Carla, I’m a huge Metallica fan like she is 🙂
I agree with you on Blink! though, and my wife would certainly agree on Pride and Prejudice and we both enjoyed The King’s Speech!
Sorry, Andrew, I just find all those screeching guitars very irritating. But chacun a son gout, as the French say.
We are of such a similar mind – The Sound of Music, The King’s Speech, Pride and Prejudice – fantastic. And I also have a few kooky diet books that make me wonder what I was thinking when I bought them. I think we all know what to do – eat less and move more, which is what you’ve been doing for your success. Way to go.
It’s true. My husband always says, “We work the calories off BEFORE we eat them.” I also love “You’ve got Mail”.
I love classical music! 😀 And Pride and Prejudice, all-time-favorite! Have you seen the BBC series with Colin Firth? Whee! 😀 😀 😀
I’m with you as long as you are talking about the PBS version of Pride and Prejudice. 🙂
Of course, that’s the version I’m talking about!!! Is there any other? Actually |I enjoy the old one from the 1940s, with Greer Garson. I didn’t like the Keira Knightly one as much, though.
Me either on not liking the Keira Knightly one … seriously Donald whatshisname as the father – so didn’t work for me … I couldn’t even watch the whole thing.
Donald Sutherland, not even British. What happened there?
I didn’t like the Fantasticks either. I’d have a hard time choosing a favorite musical but I’ve seen Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat the most times, 5 or 6, and would see it again:)
Hi Karen. I loved Joseph’s Amazing… Especially with Donny Osmond. Woo hoo!