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Most adaptations of Oliver Twist leave out quite a lot, particularly from the latter half of the book. For those wishing to see a more faithful adaptation there's the 1985 BBC series directed by Gareth Davies. It's good, mainly for the performances, though it's also a reminder of why much of the second half of the book tends to be omitted--it's ( Read more... )

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A good ending for me isn't necessarily a happy ending. I found myself thinking about this when trying to decide which of the two alternate endings of Great Expectations I preferred. I finished reading it yesterday--or rather, listening to it. I ordered the audio book version read by someone named Peter Batchelor who mostly does a good job, ( Read more... )

One day I'll get to bed precisely when I mean to and I'll get up when I mean to, too. It's a long term goal. Getting up earlier than I intended did mean I could get oatmeal in the rice cooker nice and early, though, which I've been using since I no longer have a microwave. I did manage to pencil two pages of my comic yesterday, making four I ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I was riding in the back seat of my friend's family's car and was asked to provide some Christmas music. The CD player was in the back with me so I put in the soundtrack to David's Wedding, a television musical produced for the Disney Channel in the late 1970s by David Bowie and members of The Pogues. The opening song began with ( Read more... )

I dreamt last night I made a lemon meringue pie with pecans in a huge, novelty martini glass and I tried to eat it while driving downtown. I don't think this has anything to do with the fact that I stayed up late finishing Bleak House, the great Charles Dickens novel in which the author builds a critique of England's Chancery court system by ( Read more... )