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[lexandros]

I have barely been online during the past two weeks due to school work, job hunting and whatnot. I've read far too many novels this week - from Djuna Barnes to Christa Wolf to Henry James to Toni Morrison etc. I'm also seriously considering doing post-graduate studies. In other words, my head huuurts

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[anglepoiselamp]

That is one super-HQ trailer! Shinyyy.

[lexandros]

The movie at least looks shiny. ;) I think there was an even better quality trailer wherever it was I got this one from.

*googles*

Might have been here..

[anglepoiselamp]

Wait, there's a site dedicated to HD trailers and the thought never even occurred to me? *loses at life*

[lexandros]

It definitely beats YouTube.

[cimness]

Who is that stunning girl with my ideal haircut?

[lexandros]

Hayley Atwell. She is gorgeous, isn't she? I can't wait to see all the outfits and hairstyles in the movie.

[cimness]

Oh, I recognised her from last year's ITV Mansfield Park - the shitty one with Billie Piper. But wow, she looks so much lovelier in this period.

[lexandros]

I have no recollection of her being in Mansfield Park but then again I don't really remember much about the whole adaptation anyway, apart from Billie Piper being in it.

I hope Atwell is as good an actress as she is pretty. She looks good in green.

[hausfrauatu]

Pinnnngggguuuuuuuuu!!!!

That is all.

[lexandros]

God I hope nobody makes him jump out the window in this one. Otherwise my heart might just break.

[neppu]

You can never read too many novels!

I always feel deeply sorry for people with allergies. This is such a lovely time of the year and it kills me to think it means pain and suffering and hardship for some.

I've never read anything by Evelyn Waugh, shame on me. The movie looks mighty interesting, though. I'm such a sucker for pretty people.

[lexandros]

Hee, I agree, only I think when you read too many, too fast everything becomes jumbled in your head and you're not sure what exactly you have read anymore. I've ruined many a good novel like that. ;)

I feel horrible whenever I complain about my allergies because they are nothing compared to my little sisters. She could't leave the house and go outside *at all* during the summer months when she was younger.

Waugh is probably one of my favourite authors, which of course doesn't mean I agree with everything he wrote about. But he wrote well. Brideshead Revisited may not be the ideal novel to begin with since the style is not usual for Waugh. It's very poetic, florid even, and Waugh is foremost a satirist. I love it when Waugh is at his cruelest - he is good at that. Although, Brideshead is definitely funny, too, and I hope they haven't forgotten that in the movie - based on the trailer they have. *sigh*

[neppu]

Well, at least, that way you just might end up with completely unique experiences like "woah, I remember when, in that one book, Harry Potter went to Mordor and met a small fairy and they settled down and became world-renowned ninjas".

Complaining is a civil right! There's always someone who is worst off but really, when you've lost, let's say, a leg, knowing that someone has lost two doesn't really help when your life's ambition is to run a marathon.

Recs plz! The crueler, the better.

[lexandros]

Dude. I would so read that story. I bet somehow Batman is also involved - he does run a second-hand shop in Mordor, right?

True words, my friend. *is nevertheless a happy bipedal*

Waugh's first novel, Decline and Fall, is perhaps not his best but I like it. There are some autobiographical elements; it's about a young man who takes on a position as a school teacher in Wales after getting send down from Oxford for 'indecent behaviour'. It's a comedy. Waugh himself worked as a teacher in Wales and tried to commit suicide there - I mention this because it may give a good idea of the style of his satire and writing. Man who writes a comedy based roughly on such a period in his life is bound to be something special.

Vile Bodies definitely has its cruel moments. Stephen Fry made a pretty good movie about it.

I love A Handful of Dust. I also think it may be one of Waugh's cruelest stories. In particular the ending, which is also published as the short-story "The Man Who Loved Dickens

[hausfrauatu]

You have read more books in your second language than I have in my first. *fails*

Though I have read Borges and Cortazar in the original Spanish. I am ridiculously proud of this fact. I just ordered the complete Borges. 500 pages. It's in English, but he translates well. I am sooooo geeking out about getting it! As an aside. Borges had a Character Named 'Vincent Moon' in "The Form of the Sword." I spaffed when I saw that. SPAFFED I tell ya! Not may Americans have a second language. I'm rusty now, so when I speak I have to do a lot of "Outside the door but not all the way outside...has a roof..." "Porch?" "Um. Yeah. The beer is on the porch."

I probably sound a little like Bubble from AbFab. 'Lives by the computer...has a tail..."

[lexandros]

Oh man, I wish I could read Borges or Cortazar in the original. Not that many of Borges's works have been translated into Finnish, but I read a collection of his essays a couple of years ago.

Heeeeeeeee! Vincent Moon. That's priceless. I was reading some book recently and one of the characters in it was described as having 'tiny, suspicious eyes' and a 'small, distinguished moustache'. XD

Bubble is made of awesome! Ah, I really miss AbFab. I think I need to dig up my dvds.