I've always been a massive friendship 'shipper (thank you, TVDW), but this show feeds my habit so terribly. Will and Diane! Alicia and Kalinda! All those episodes ago when Diane raced across hallways to celebrate the precise moment that Will could resume practising law, I giggled like a little girl. And when Alicia…

Yes, yes, yes. I have been singing hosannas about this book for some time now.

I mentioned "Hamlet" before, and heartily agree. Bite me, TS Eliot.
Henry IV Part I is gorgeous. My God I was obsessed with that play for so long.

Short stories:
PG Wodehouse's "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend". Also "The Crime Wave at Blandings".
Pretty much anything from Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories".
Likewise, from Jame Joyce's "the Dubliners". Though really I mean "the Dead".
Guy de Maupassant's "the Devil". Dark, bleak and funny as…

Graphic novels: Grant Morrison's "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth".

Has anyone mentioned:
Diana Wynne-Jones's "Howl's Moving Castle"
or Terry Pratchett's "Witches Abroad" yet? 
Or "Hogfather"?
Or Nick Drake's "Know"?
Or the Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs"?

Interesting.  I'm not a fan of his solo outings, but I have a thing for trickster dandies. I adore Uncle Fred, Uncle Gally and Psmith, though I will freely admit that Lord Emsworth and Bertie Wooster make for much, much better protagonists.

Wait, hang on- you have fault to find with "Leave it to Psmith"? Really? But "Leave it to Psmith" is part of my PGW Conversion Kit!

RK Narayan's "Swami and Friends". David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia". Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist". "Hamlet". "Twelfth Night" (yes, yes, I know, the duel plot is tedious and overlong. Shut your face.). Thyagaraja's "Raghuvamsasudha".

Les Quatre Cents Coups! So achingly beautiful. I agree- I've heard criticisms, but I cannot see anything other than that fragile trembling sincerity.

So your question wasn't addressed to me and possibly @avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus  has a different take, but for me, a classic fairytale has resonance entirely orthogonal to good and evil. "Red Riding Hood" is viscerally terrifying in a way that has little to do with, ultimately, the politics or…

I'm very glad I read the books, and I completely get why other people love them, but yeah- they weren't for me. I think it was these novels that made me realise that I sniggered at epic, Manichaean "light/dark", "good/evil" struggles. Not the fault of the books, I repeat.

Oh, good call. PGW didn't occur to me until now because it still amazes me when people shrug their shoulders about him.

Specifically, "My Neighbour Totoro". I am incapable of analysing this film. All I can do is immerse myself and feel.

Which makes me want to go off and reread "The Robber Bride". Smashing.

@Scrawler2:disqus , will do. I enjoy Olivia Williams. Adele DeWitt, eh? A nod to "All About Eve", or no?

I know- Ghalib and Rumi and Kalidasa make me hate myself for needing an English translation.

Page Five and surely nobody's reading. I will admit quietly to a massive soft spot for Yeats's "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven".
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

He tells her that the Earth is flat—
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.

It's gorgeous. I don't think it's negative- Rumi's approach to love and divinity was integrated. Like Donne's in many ways.