Good eye! I kept thinking the character's name was Dolly for some unknown reason when I first watched it which made the song "hello dolly" get stuck in my head and hence "hello dobby" happened.

It reminds me a lot of the work that Nellie Bly did and how it was received. This is a woman who faked insanity to investigate a mental institution at the turn of the century at grave personal risk and was dismissed as “stunt journalism." Bly easily could have gotten herself killed or worse to provide information of a…

I agree and thought this book was excellent. I compare it to one I read by a defector, both books were able to give a lot of insight into what is going on with the people in North Korea.

Thank you guys for this thread! I’m so fascinated by the hermit kingdom and am looking forward to gobbling up all of these books.

The thing I feel about a lot of personal books about foreigners going to North Korea is that those people are so controlled, isolated and inundated in propaganda (not speaking the language, the only people they can talk to are their government handlers) that they pretty much have to rely on outside scholarship to fill…

In addition to Nothing to Envy, which someone else recommended, I’d recommend The Aquariums of Pyongyang.

I just finished reading A Kim Jong-Il Production which was INCREDIBLE. It covers the true accounts of a famous South Korean actress and her director husband who were kidnapped and held in North Korea to help Kim Jong Il stimulate their propagandist movie industry. It is so haunting... between descriptions of other…

Agree, this book was amazing.

Might I recommend Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick? It is a compilation of stories told by defectors from North Korea, and really gives a very diverse look at North Korea (everyone from orphans to doctors) and what it is like to grow up there.

I think she may have been a lot more accurate than most foreign writers over there

SO AMAZING. I’ve watched it 3 times already. Kendrick must be fangirling so hard right now. He is truly living his best life:

PLEASE YES PLEASE

THANK YOU. It amazes me how tone deaf these conservatives are to legacy applicants at the bastions of privilege, aka Ivy League schools, a veritable non-meritocractic practice, and then criticize affirmative action as racist.

How is this surprising? She has a British identical twin!!!

Legacy preference admissions are technically banned at Texas public universities, which I’m sure only added to her sense of aggrievement. All she wanted was to continue the family tradition, but those bullies in admissions (and at College Board) had other ideas!

The problem is, she’s seen the second half of rom-coms, and figured if she just kept trying, UT would finally see how perfect she is for them!

She was a legacy. She fully expected to go to UT because her daddy did.

Would it be inappropriate, given the circumstances, if we took up a collection to get Rep. Duckworth one of those prosthetic machine gun legs from that Grindhouse movie?

Tom cruise jumping on the couch