holmes and jeeves and who oh my
The good thing that came out of seeing the Sherlock Holmes movie is that it persuaded me to give the books another chance. I'd read Hound of the Baskervilles ages ago while visiting my aunt and uncle, but it didn't impress me much and I never picked up another Sherlock Holmes story after. Now, though, I have zoomed through Barnes and Noble's volume 1 of their Sherlock Holmes collection and look askance at my younger self, saying, "What the hell, y.s.? What is wrong with your taste, this is awesome!"
Ah, the follies of youth.
I have also borrowed the Granada series from the library and am now in possession of the most unfortunate crush on Jeremy Brett. After only six episodes, I am seriously considering buying the dvds to keep for forever (and have, in fact, already comparison shopped online) and also to show my mom, since she loves watching mysteries. My mom can be fun when it comes to shows, because she mainlines episodes to an extent that I can't anymore. Shows that would take me a week or two to watch a full season of she can do in several days.
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I have also been reading these past several months the Jeeves books by PG Wodehouse, though at a slower pace than is my wont. I've been reading the novels in order of publications, mixing in the short stories as I go along, and am now on The Return of Jeeves; I forget which of the short stories I'm on. They're great fun and I find that I like them for entirely different reasons from the equally awesome tv show starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Bertie's writing style is, I think, the utter highlight of the books and the one thing I am sad could never have come across in the show.
(I have to admit that, oddly enough, I cannot slash Jeeves and Bertie as played by Fry and Laurie. Their literary versions, I can very easily do, but the live action ones? Not so much. They are at one end of the "cannot slash -> omg are so fucking doing it" chart of Fry and Laurie characters that I have.)
Being that I am soon to reach the halfway point of the Jeeves canon, I'm not sure which of Wodehouse's series to read after: Blandings or Psmith? Decisions, decisions.
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In other news, I find myself increasingly looking forward to the newest series of Doctor Who, not because of Moff Tiem Nao (being that I am split 50/50 over his episodes and so have no special love or hate for him) but because of Eleven. Honestly, I know nothing about the new series save what's been shown in the most current trailer, but I am curious to see how our newest Doctor unfolds on our screens. I really have no preconceived notions of Smith, and I think that's all to the good, because I loved Tennant as an actor (and, actually, still do) before I saw him onscreen as Ten and I think that made how much I came to despise Ten all the more harder to bear.
Ah, the follies of youth.
I have also borrowed the Granada series from the library and am now in possession of the most unfortunate crush on Jeremy Brett. After only six episodes, I am seriously considering buying the dvds to keep for forever (and have, in fact, already comparison shopped online) and also to show my mom, since she loves watching mysteries. My mom can be fun when it comes to shows, because she mainlines episodes to an extent that I can't anymore. Shows that would take me a week or two to watch a full season of she can do in several days.
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I have also been reading these past several months the Jeeves books by PG Wodehouse, though at a slower pace than is my wont. I've been reading the novels in order of publications, mixing in the short stories as I go along, and am now on The Return of Jeeves; I forget which of the short stories I'm on. They're great fun and I find that I like them for entirely different reasons from the equally awesome tv show starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Bertie's writing style is, I think, the utter highlight of the books and the one thing I am sad could never have come across in the show.
(I have to admit that, oddly enough, I cannot slash Jeeves and Bertie as played by Fry and Laurie. Their literary versions, I can very easily do, but the live action ones? Not so much. They are at one end of the "cannot slash -> omg are so fucking doing it" chart of Fry and Laurie characters that I have.)
Being that I am soon to reach the halfway point of the Jeeves canon, I'm not sure which of Wodehouse's series to read after: Blandings or Psmith? Decisions, decisions.
*
In other news, I find myself increasingly looking forward to the newest series of Doctor Who, not because of Moff Tiem Nao (being that I am split 50/50 over his episodes and so have no special love or hate for him) but because of Eleven. Honestly, I know nothing about the new series save what's been shown in the most current trailer, but I am curious to see how our newest Doctor unfolds on our screens. I really have no preconceived notions of Smith, and I think that's all to the good, because I loved Tennant as an actor (and, actually, still do) before I saw him onscreen as Ten and I think that made how much I came to despise Ten all the more harder to bear.