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As for villains in films, for me the perfect villain is in the Coen brothers' 'No Country For Old Men'. A ruthless, inscrutable force of nature. A character as flat as they come, granted,...

Actually, I do dislike Stiva! But I'm aware that I might be the only one. His constant 'almond-oil-coloured' smiling is like 365 days of summer in a year: the idea sounds great, but it really starts...

(In response to manolia's and Kelby Lake's arguments in http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32974&page=3)

It's not a black-and-white thing, but on the whole I agree with the...

(I've started a thread as a reply to the misogyny question)

I dislike Anna not so much because of the adultery and abandonment of her child but rather because of the way she handled the whole...

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Doesn't it make a lot of sense now! Why else the 'disgust' and 'contemptuous nod', and the 'sarcastic' epithet of 'inseparables'? I did wonder at this seemingly wayward digression into point-blank...

My thoughts exactly.

On Vromsky: I too found his last appearance in the novel pathetic, and I mean 'pathetic' both in its etymological sense (as it was meant to elicit pity) and in its...

Charles Darnay said it very well, Stewed summed it up better:



My best Literature classes (those I had in London) were exactly that.

Skills I hoped to develop:
textual analysis
the ability...

I've just realised I've never read Chekhov. It feels like I've just realised my house doesn't have a roof.

(By the way, any Daniil Kharms fans?)

You've said it: Beckett is funny even if you're not digging for the meaning. Although he started out a bright if almost painfully pedantic writer, throughout his life, from novel to novel (and,...

[Double post! Please remove me.]

Let's try something different! I want you to think of your one of your favourite writers. Now say something about them that you particularly dislike, or are at odds with, or admit isn't the writer's...

I'm fine with shortcomings of all varieties, such as physical feebleness, shortsightedness, and metaphysical incompetence. Unfortunately, what we seriously lack and most desperately need - common...

Hmm... tough choice. I'll go for answer c) Ireland. :)

(Samuel Beckett)

This is, for me, a fact of life.

However, the crucial distinction between "alone" and "lonely" must be made. Everyone is alone (unless, perhaps, if you've a siamese twin...

Very interesting! The only one so far to obliquously mention that wonderful thing called "emotional intelligence", which seems to predict future "success" (what an intense dislike I nurture for this...

Absolutely. And I'm not saying he is wrong or anything, I just take issue with some of his arguments, but he and I - and you - well, we are all on the same side here. And that's a particularly apt...

I completely agree with the second sentence, but can't see how it follows from the first, with which I take issue. Unless you mean quality papers that are driven by an orthodox political ideology, in...

Thanks for sharing that, a very insightful little piece of writing! I must admit I find Brian Dean's reasoning rather disingenuous in places, and the final suggestion that one should live without...

I hope we can keep this as apolitical as is possible.

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...well, how would you have ruled? It's your opinion that interests me, but any...

Beats the hell out of me! I've heard it has to do with social bonding. But I really don't know, I've even done some research on it.

P.S. Jim Gaffigan wonders about it too:...

My situation is more or less like this. I firmly believe that if parents educate their children well enough and expose them to sources of information, then they'll learn by themselves. Must be such...

Sorry, for now I don't have much to say, not time to say it. I'm only posting because I want to put a little tab on this discussion (i.e. that little arrow in the post's icon). I don't want to miss...

They do show it in Portugal (with 2 weeks difference :rolleyes:) but I watch it on their official website, they put up the whole episode in the very next day!

A downright shame that only people in...

I believe it's pronounced 'key-HO-tee' in English. This is because of the English speakers' chronic inability to pronounce the Spanish 'x', a guttural sound which exists, for example, in the spanish...

Mathor, right on.

Well, overall London's a'ight, but the Central Line has become my sworn enemy! Why on earth is the most crowded train the smallest as well? And the noisiest. And the buses have...