That could certainly be the case. I've only seen Henry IV performed as part of the Hollow Crown series, and the Falstaff stuff was done… poorly in that one, I felt (or let's say, it was not very funny for the most part, whether that was the intention or not).

My reading was all over the place this week, instead of being focused on one thing.

Hm, they sound like Manicheans to me. Maybe even Cathars! You should probably call the Inquisition hotline and report them.

I've been meaning to get into Dickens for a while. Having only read Oliver Twist so long ago that I have forgotten all about it where would you suggest I start?
I was thinking Pickwick Papers, maybe?

That Kindle public domain collection is amazing, isn't it? Every time I browse for a new book, I end up with ten.

Seriously, the book threads both here and on the weekend Q&As are terribly unreliable! Half the time I look for them in vain, half the time I realize two days later that this week there was one that I missed. I cannot work like this!

Wait, is this Dostoyevsky's Idiot? What do you mean by "version"? Are there different ones?

I found him terribly bland in the "Hollow Crown" series. And his Loki was pretty generic as well. So, I guess I disagree with your assessment of him as a great actor.

Well, I'm not planning on only ever reading it once, so we'll see what I'll get out of it in further readings.
And that edition is certainly lavish and probably looks good on a shelf, but it's probably too unwieldy to carry while walking around in my apartment reciting Shakespeare. ;)

The day after I had stepped into the nail. I did go to the doctor.

Only read Hamlet once all the way through so far, but I'm not overly fond of it, save for a few parts here and there (the gravediggers and the soliloquies, mainly). It never quite gels as a whole, and always feels disjointed. I guess there is something to the thought that it's not to be performed in its entirety, but…

Well, maybe a few more thoughts then. ;)

I read George Eliot's Romola and Joseph Conrad's Allmayer's Folly while at home with a foot injury last week.
Unfortunately, I haven't prepared any detailed thoughts for this thread on either.
They were both… good.

I also think the first one had its charms. The cartoony style lent itself to some amusing roleplaying even with the clunkier mechanics. And it inspired some of the funniest AARs.

Stepped into a nail the weekend before last. It went in pretty deep and the area got a bit inflamed and stuff. Luckily, the inflamation's gone, but I'm still trying to walk around as little as possible.

If we're talking social satire Sanditon might be Austen's best. It's sadly unfinished, but the existing part is well worth reading, if you can find it.
And looking over the examples given here it seems clear that Austen developed into a more socially aware author as her career went on. I always think she would have had…

But how does comparing the reboot movies to Insurrection and the other one do the former any favors? Yes, the reboot ones are better than those two, which means they cleared the bar of "pretty terrible". That doesn't make Star Trek and Into Darkness good movies.

If "film critics" are as bad in the rest of Europe as they are in Germany I can believe that.

Eh, I always preferred Mansfield Shark.
The story of a poor shark girl who goes to live with rich relatives and eventually eats them all.

Wilmer Wolverando?