I'm not sure how much thought they had put in Christopher at the beginning, I could very well see Christopher embellishing his success to his parents who would then exaggerate it to Richard; when we first meet him, he does try to pull the successful guy character.

Paris mentions that she missed a month while checking her file.

@avclub-e1e84d33778737c0a16ede94d51f3752:disqus  I somehow don't notice it as much with Bunheads, there may not be men in the main cast, but there have been so many love interests and brothers that, while the principle of my criticism could still stand, it almost feels like a more masculine world, you at least get the…

There is Tristan, but he's only helping make Dean seem that much better. Although I have a friend who inexplicably was rooting for a Tristan Rory pairing.
Maybe I'm just experiencing what women feel like with most shows, I'm not convinced that series would pass a bizarro-Blechdel test (which doesn't detract from it…

You will not be disappointed, seasons two and three are as perfect as TV gets, season one is only excellent.

Emily is probably my favourite character from the show, she only wants for her family to be happy, and is never doing anything that she thinks would cause harm. I can't help but sympathise with her, being cut off from her daughter and grand-daughter for so long, and not knowing what to do to fix it.

Aaargh!! Only rewatched the pilot.
Still great how they manage to have everything already in it, all the relationships are there, the characters have their foundations set, and for most of them there will not be major re-writes of their personality

He certainly comes off as a bit creepy at first, I'm not quite sure how his assurance that he was watching her but not in a "I'm watching you" kinda way is meant to make things better.
As much as I love the show, the one thing that always annoyed me was that there didn't seem to be any other boys apart from Dean, it's…

Nothing wrong with preferring the "poppier" side of classical, anything Dvorak is very likely to get me to buy a ticket. And Hindemith is great.
Do you know Shostakovich, the 9th symphony or 8th string quartet in particular? I think they might qualify for your infernal machine description.

The piano quintet is probably the work I Iisten to most from the Amadeus quartet box, I'm not going to deny the greatness, in particular how well the piano is integrated to the music in the first movement.
But overall I think I prefer quieter Brahms, the piano quintet is still quite tempestuous.

I just finished Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel, and I must say I was a bit disappointed, to be fair maybe it was me (I'm going through some stuff right now), but I didn't really care, it's all very well written and intriguing, but after the big reveal, I couldn't help but think: Is this it?
If someone else has…

I couldn't read anything for a month after I finished Ulysses, there just didn't seem to be any point.

I really liked The Rachel Papers but couldn't stand Catcher, while they are similar in a few ways the difference I thought was that Salinger seemed to leave the possibility to sympathise with the little douche which made the character and therefore the book very annoying, whereas Amis fully acknowledges that his…

As you probably now know, Austen is amazing, the use of language is just perfect, it's funny, there are plots that make you want to keep reading, it's an interesting insight in the society of the time but doesn't feel didactic. All her novels are perfect really (to be fair I could leave Sense and Sensibility which I…

I'll be curious to know how you get along with Pynchon, I had read Lot 49 a few years ago and had quite liked it, but read Mason & Dixon last year and it shot to the top of my favourite books ever, I've been going through all his other books since (Vineland and V, just started Against he Day).

Classical Music thread

Thanks, these are indeed very good. i'll try to post in today's intolerability index, but that won't be anywhere near as well researched, I may step up for next time.

You should try to see them live if you can, they put on a great show.

Anna, and by extension Vronsky, might give the book its title, and I didn't find either written as outright unpleasant, but Levin is the character Tolstoy means to have as a guiding light so to speak.

I was turned off Baudelaire for a very long time due to a traumatising experience in class. But every time I've read him since makes me regret not having realised earlier how great he was; however Les Amours Jaunes by Tristan Corbiere remains my favourite collection, I'm too lazy to copy Le Bossu Bitor from it, but…