I’ve been wanting to read Shogun for years, but I think that synopsis is what has finally sold me on making time to read it this year—thank you!

As disturbing as many aspects of the documentary Amy was, the scene that still makes me the angriest is when she’s privately trying to get away from things in the Caribbean and her dad shows up with a film crew and she’s just like “Really?” I’ve read his bullshit explanations for that, but you can tell by the way she…

I am always shocked by people talking about how charming and handsome Bundy was in person. That motherfucker has one of the most disturbing and terrifying cases of crazy eyes I’ve ever seen.

It was slated for theatrical release before Oppenheimer. They did nix a limited release 2 weeks before the main release, but there was an announcement about it being on IMAX screens at least 2 weeks before Oppenheimer even opened. 

Yeah as others are saying, it’s definitely not. I read a lot of true crime and disturbing history on a regular basis, and the book is honestly one of the most disturbing true crime/historical nonfiction books I’ve ever read. Like, leaves-you-with-existential-nausea-for-days-after-finishing-the-book levels of…

Every time I see him with his natural accent, my brain shuts down and wonders why Stringer Bell is talking like a Brit.

I know I am months late in responding, but you’re right. In the books, Catelyn was a redhead (a Tully trait) and it’s reflected in most of her children, especially Sansa but also all of her sons. In fact, one of the things that really grinds her gears with Jon is he looks more like Ned than any of her boys with Ned.…

As someone who was an English major in college, I really miss discussing books in a classroom setting (particularly a small class setting where everyone had interesting insight), and I’ve tried to seek that out in a book club setting and often found that the things they wanted to talk about were not what I wanted to…

I’m a little older than you and am also a bit bewildered when I run into people who are obsessed with it. I have seen a few episodes here and there, and I’ve never once laughed. I’ve occasionally mentally registered something as funny but not enough for me to actually laugh at it or find it entertaining. It’s not even…

It really is a fantastic book. I’ve read 3 of his nonfiction espionage history books (The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Agent Sonya). They’re all superb reads, but I lost sleep to finish The Spy and The Traitor. That last 100 pages is some of the most compelling I’ve ever read. 

“cause taking care of a physically fit adult male with dementia is not for the faith of heart.”

Same! If I like it, I try to acquire a backup download rather than trusting it to remain on a streaming service.

I feel like Dances With Wolves would be a much better movie without Costner’s character—or McDonnell’s. I genuinely enjoy Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Rodney A. Grant, and Wes Studi in the movie and would have happily watched 3 hours of just them, without Costner and McDonnell’s distracting, anachronistic mullets.

Honestly I think the People’s Temple is way more work than Kanye is willing to do. There was twenty to thirty years’ worth of growth in the infrastructure, and at its height, it had a fair degree of political capital and wealth. Jones was batshit crazy, but he did a better job of hiding it and cultivating people for…

Yeah I should probably have put some quotation marks around his own books. I know he’s been pretty open about farming out his adult books, and I don’t think it is unreasonable to assume he does the same with books geared toward younger readers.

Yeah I remember watching Les Mis and thinking, “She got an Oscar for that?!” But I never considered that Hathaway’s fault or a reason to loathe her. 

Yes. He’s also written ones based on Egyptian mythology and has an imprint called Rick Riordan Presents that promotes lesser-known writers who are writing own voices books inspired by Aztec, Mayan, Cuban, Native American, African, and Asian mythology and folklore (among others).

I have long believed it is a tribute to Jason Issacs’ handsomeness that he can rock that Malfoy wig and not look like a damn Afghan Hound. I always in my mind saw him as the Mad King for Game of Thrones because of it and was privately disappointed nobody read my mind and cast that bit part accordingly.

I think you’ve hit on what has long bugged me about him in The Crown, which is what I am mainly familiar with him from. His acting on the show is fine, but he always seems weirdly out of place to me. Which is kind of a plot point about his character in the show, but there is just something that I find incredibly…

That makes sense. Gilda Radner, whom I adore but definitely didn’t seem like the most emotionally stable person, also talked about the sleep deprivation. She said she couldn’t sleep on Tuesdays for 5 years after leaving the show because of the writing schedule that required them to pull all-nighters that day.