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cloverkite

cloverkite

I think:
-for tv, Matt Lucas and David Walliams' work is genius.
-for cinema, Billy Wilder is a genius.
-Mary Shelley is a genius.
-the best love story ever is Wuthering Heights.
- I'm a fan of classics (movies, music, literature etc.)

I honestly don't presume to be an authority on books. However, I can... more »
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  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    Now that you've read Razor's Edge, which to me was easily the most beautiful novel after I put it down, what can you say?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    The Moon and Sixpence, now that's one I haven't read.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    How did you find Wilder? I didn't at all like Bridges of San Luis Rey, and I doubted if his plays are any better. I find his style too cerebral and lacking in thrill. I don't know.

    I liked Williams the best because he's just so subtle. You don't realize right away what the relationships between his characters are, and when it dawns on you, everything's almost so shocking. At times I think his ideas are too simple, but because they're too simple, and nobody tries to be that simple, he tends to stand out. It's like something that you could have thought of but didn't because you felt it wouldn't amount to anything. But his delivery is perfect, which makes him quite a genius, which makes his simplicity brilliant. And when it comes to portraying human suffering, he's number one.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    Bakit ang taas yata ng ratings mo sa works ni Tennessee? I love him! Maganda Streetcar, may copy ako nabili ko ng 15 pesos sa UST booksale nung 2004 or something.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    You're reading Maugham? What DO you think? Isn't he just devastating???

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    Forget The Beautiful and Damned (it's breezy and easy to read anyway), read I, Claudius by Robert Graves first. Please!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    Forget The Beautiful and Damned (it's breezy and easy to read anyway), read I, Claudius by Robert Graves first. Please!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    isn't it kinda shitty that i haven't read cat on a hot tin roof when i've read all of williams' major dramas? i couldn't find a copy ANYWHERE in the philippines; none of the university libraries store them. i did see one once at a bargain bookstore but it was damn expensive (it's a collection and all of its companion pieces have been consumed by moi already) and hardbound and all that jazz. send me your copy, okay? i don't want to see the film before i get my claws on the book.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    Oh, you've read Gatsby? That also went straight to my favorites' list. Isn't he just absolutely brilliant? he made a completely uninteresting setting worth the while. Rio doesn't quite agree when I tell her that Fitzgerald has The Art.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    So what can you say about The Night of the Iguana? Isn't it brilliant? I love the old man's poem, can't quite get the last line off my head:

    "O courage, would you not as well select a second place to dwell, not only in that golden tree but in the frightened heart of me?"

    I still think that Williams was the wittiest playwright of his age.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • limadean

    limadean says

    I love your posts on the Twilight review page!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Madeleine B

    Madeleine B says

    Hello, I don't know you, but I'd just like to say that I agree with your thoughts about Wuthering Heights, stated in the passage you've written up the top.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ria d

    Ria d says

    Hey dude! We have a copy of Knowles' Phineas at the department's faculty. I'll try to read it as soon as I can and give yah some feedback.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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