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The two are, believe it or not, not related.
I watched 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' on BBC2 (BBC link here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019nky7). It was good, and I appear to have been doing Matthew Rhys a grave disservice for several years. The man can act! (Some explanation - he and Matthew MacFaddyen came to prominence at similar times and the similarity of name caused me to confuse them and I just assumed he was as bad as MacFaddyen.)
Alun Armstrong was fantastic as Mr. Grewgious, to the point where I got annoyed at the background music because he doesn't need the stirring music of duty and sorrow to get his point across.
I get visions of people complaining about Mr. Bazzard, given that wandering snarky assistants are not properly Dickensian, except, you know, how Mr. Bazzard actually is direct from Dickens. And I <3ed him muchly.
I spent an excessive amount of time trying to place where I'd seen the actor for Edwin Drood. It turns out that I'd last seen him as Ratallack in 'The Shadow Line'. Freddie Fox can act because, well, yes, totally different character and mannerisms and everything.
Obviously, they had to write in their own ending ( Spoilers )
I shall however be good and not refer to the whole thing as men with poor social skills and the awesome women they love. In particular ( further spoilers )
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Book Meme - Day 26 - A book that changed your opinion about something
I found this a very difficult question to answer because well, I try not to do this. Not in the sense of closed-mindness but the idea of having your opinion moved by fiction, unless it highlights an issue you'd never thought of before or a viewpoint you hadn't considered (it's not a book but 'Cathy Come Home' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Come_Home is probably one of the greatest examples of this, although keeping a Dickens theme, you could probably suggest school conditions for 'Nicholas Nickelby' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Nickleby) or workhouse conditions for Oliver Twist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist) strikes me as being a bit odd.
I think that might be why, if I'm reading non-fiction that isn't autobiographical or clearly personal viewpoint essays, I'd rather have the facts and then any discussion of the facts or author's conclusions from the facts clearly and separately marked.
This is not to say an author can't bring themselves into it and do it well to make a point. As the example, and my choice for this meme answer, I shall choose Stephen Jay Gould's essay 'The Median Isn't the Message' (which can be found here - http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html) originally taken from his essay collection 'Bully For Brontosaurus' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Brontosaurus).
( The Other Days )
I watched 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' on BBC2 (BBC link here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019nky7). It was good, and I appear to have been doing Matthew Rhys a grave disservice for several years. The man can act! (Some explanation - he and Matthew MacFaddyen came to prominence at similar times and the similarity of name caused me to confuse them and I just assumed he was as bad as MacFaddyen.)
Alun Armstrong was fantastic as Mr. Grewgious, to the point where I got annoyed at the background music because he doesn't need the stirring music of duty and sorrow to get his point across.
I get visions of people complaining about Mr. Bazzard, given that wandering snarky assistants are not properly Dickensian, except, you know, how Mr. Bazzard actually is direct from Dickens. And I <3ed him muchly.
I spent an excessive amount of time trying to place where I'd seen the actor for Edwin Drood. It turns out that I'd last seen him as Ratallack in 'The Shadow Line'. Freddie Fox can act because, well, yes, totally different character and mannerisms and everything.
Obviously, they had to write in their own ending ( Spoilers )
I shall however be good and not refer to the whole thing as men with poor social skills and the awesome women they love. In particular ( further spoilers )
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Book Meme - Day 26 - A book that changed your opinion about something
I found this a very difficult question to answer because well, I try not to do this. Not in the sense of closed-mindness but the idea of having your opinion moved by fiction, unless it highlights an issue you'd never thought of before or a viewpoint you hadn't considered (it's not a book but 'Cathy Come Home' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Come_Home is probably one of the greatest examples of this, although keeping a Dickens theme, you could probably suggest school conditions for 'Nicholas Nickelby' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Nickleby) or workhouse conditions for Oliver Twist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist) strikes me as being a bit odd.
I think that might be why, if I'm reading non-fiction that isn't autobiographical or clearly personal viewpoint essays, I'd rather have the facts and then any discussion of the facts or author's conclusions from the facts clearly and separately marked.
This is not to say an author can't bring themselves into it and do it well to make a point. As the example, and my choice for this meme answer, I shall choose Stephen Jay Gould's essay 'The Median Isn't the Message' (which can be found here - http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html) originally taken from his essay collection 'Bully For Brontosaurus' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Brontosaurus).
( The Other Days )
