Thanks for the recommendation, but I already saw The Hollow Crown back when it aired in the UK.
Loved Richard II, enjoyed the Henry IVs in parts, didn't like Henry V much.

Still reading my Kipling short stories about India and getting kinda bored with them. It's not that they aren't good, but the style is pretty similar in all of them. I need a change.

Hey, I read The Moonstone not too long ago! Since it's a mystery novel and I don't want to give away anything, I'll just say that it's well worth reading, though this verdict comes from someone who doesn't have too extensive a knowledge of mystery literature.
I do want to point out the narrative style, though. It's one…

Which leads to the question: How does one go about having something carbon-dated? Ask at a museum? A university?

Oh god, that book. Looking at the bookmark in it I got through about one third of it years ago, though I have no idea how I managed that and don't remember a thing about it.
Just one of those books that completely baffled me. It's sitting on my bookshelf and I kinda doubt I'll ever pick it up again.

Your comment reminds me that I wanted to "look something up later" earlier in the day. Damned if I know what it was.

I hope they remember to put in some alien monster or something. Because what would a movie about kids passionate about filmmaking be without a giant alien monster?

Not the downvotes, though. Because jerks need the anonymity, I guess.

I'm annoyed that new comments show up at the top, not the bottom. "Oldest first" my ass…

Within the play I would say that the reason the English win is superior morale and motivation, thanks to… rousing speeches by their king. Which was one of the reasons why I thought the Crispin's Day speech in this one didn't work.

Reading a collection of short stories set in India by Rudyard Kipling (The Man Who Would Be King among them). They are quite good.

I always greatly enjoy Conrad, but haven't read those two stories yet. Your verdict on them?

Eh, at this point, every new death on Game of Thrones will probably elicit little more than an eyeroll from me. Killing off characters has quickly diminishing returns in terms of emotional impact if it's done too frequently.

I actually found her to be the funniest thing in Valentine's Day.
Which was, admittedly, a low bar to clear. And this doesn't sound like a comedy, really…
But, eh, she'll do alright.

@avclub-d4c5630db0ec3444ec43c0982a9e83d3:disqus All of them! ;)

@avclub-6a2ec3076bb494e5c64eb1a422d9fe3d:disqus And as a metatextual companion perhaps Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris. I can't out and out recommend it since it's been too long since school and I don't remember many details about it, but it might be interesting to compare and contrast with the classical Iphigenia play…

As a big Austen fan I've been meaning to get around to something like The Monk or The Castle of Otranto for a long while.
And it does seem like good October reading. Hm…

I can't help but feel that EUIV would be the more fitting companion to your current reading. ;)

That is indeed quite a doomy reading list.

Well, it was a bit of a diss against French movies…