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ikmccall

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  1. U2

    Bonnie Raitt

    Chris Isaak

    Willie Nelson

    Johnny Cash

    Alabama

    Clint Black

    Alan Jackson

    Elton John

    Billy Joel

    Def Leppard

    John Hiatt

    Lyle Lovett

    Marty Stuart

    Luther Vandross

    Rollins Band

    Tool

    Alice in Chains

    Dinosaur Jr.

    Primus

    The  Mavericks

    Bettye Lavette

    David Bowie

    Cheap Trick

    The GooGoo Dolls

    Bob Dylan

    Los Lobos

    Travis Tritt

    Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    Jackson Brown

    Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers

    CSNY

    Rodney Crowell

    The Rolling Stones

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  2. I'm semi-convinced that we've all been had and that no one actually liked this book. Cue the dozen people who will doubtless declare the book-love-of-their-lives, and to whom I apologize before continuing with my Time Traveler's Wife vitriol. It's just first I tried listening to it on an audio book while exercising.  Well, that was a no-go. I found it distracting because it seemed just plain-old bad, but I'd been told it was good.  So I picked up a copy, read it halfway through and stopped before it could entirely kill off my love of time-travel stories.  

     

    Then a few years ago someone picked it for a book club I was in and I, prepared to find out what the hell anyone liked about that drippy mess, powered through to the ending at long last, nearly wanting to pitch the blasted thing when there was more talk of toe-sucking.  I thought that was what was pissing me off, I wanted a fun time-travel story and instead I got a book that was more romance than time-travel fun.  Plus, it made time-traveling boring, which was a sin and a half.  

    So absolutely everyone in my book club hated the damned thing too.  I felt slightly better about hating what I had been told was a beloved book.  

     

    I'm positive that there are people who really liked it, nay, loved it.  I've just never met a person who did.  

     

     

    Preach it, sister!

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  3. I may be the only person alive who couldn't get into Wicked.  I tried reading it, but I couldn't get past the first fifty pages.  It was written in a very weird way, and I wasn't quite sure what was going on.

    No, I didn't like it either. So much so that I refuse to see the stage show. No matter how much my friends love the show.

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  4. I used to listen to audiobooks when I was doing data entry in the credit card division at a huge bank. It was also a 45 minute commute each way.  But since I moved and changed jobs, I only have a 15 minute commute each way and the new job is in a busy doctor's office so I don't listen to audiobooks unless I'm on a train/bus for a weekend getaway.  And I really miss it sometimes. Jim Dale is the British actor who read all of the Harry Potter books. 

  5. I freaking hated The Time Traveler's Wife with the passion of a thousands suns and wanted to beat my own head in for reading it.  Blergh.

     

     

    I didn't like the characters and I didn't like the fact that he only time travelled within his own life.  I wanted time travel back to medieval times or the Roaring Twenties. 

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