Grudge Against Literature

Nov 07, 2008 13:34

AAGH THEY HAVE ETHAN FROME ON BBC7.

I AM BECOMING IRASCIBLY BORED JUST LOOKING AT THE TITLE.

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fryingpanofdoom November 8 2008, 03:01:04 UTC
BUT they have Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who on this week...that has to count for something...

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twirlynoodle November 8 2008, 03:08:05 UTC
Yes, it does - and if you want some real fun, listen to You Only Live Twice, which features Sherlock Holmes in yellowface (a.k.a. Clive Merrison playing a badly stereotyped Japanese man).

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fryingpanofdoom November 8 2008, 03:53:09 UTC
I heard it! It's so funny--I love Clive Merrison's voice, even though he does a REALLY TERRIBLE Japanese accent. When I first heard his voice, I thought he was the perfect Holmes. He even kind of looks Holmesian (not that that's important on radio)

Actually, another good one (not currently on) is the dramatization of the Canterbury Tales--he reads the Pardoner, and Anton Lesser and Philip Madoc are also in it.

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ardys_the_ghoul November 8 2008, 09:17:14 UTC
I've never read Ethan Frome. Judging by the hatred piled onto it in the comments, I probably never will now, unless I have to. Is this normal high school required reading? Seems my high school fails again--I'm only now coming to realize what a lousy school for an English student it was.

Also, if you're looking for useless, pointless literature, in my opinion you can't get much worse than "The Last of the Mohicans." Or anything else by James Fenimore Cooper, really. Mark Twain was so right.

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fani November 8 2008, 15:21:11 UTC
What the heck is Ethan Frome? The image I get is a perky English schoolboy.

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iseepurplehair November 9 2008, 04:50:17 UTC
I have never read it.

Now I have the (slightly perverse?) desire to pick it up and read it in my own free time.

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