I watched the miniseries of Pillars of the earth. I wish I read the books before like most of the times since it's not as fun to read after watching a tv adaption. But yes, great story nevertheless 12th century england is just fascinating!
One of the actors in the tv series stars in Les Mis. I don't know his name, but in Les Mis, he's the one that leads the revolt. He does my favorite number.....about the friends he lost. Awesome!
Probably the guy with the red hair, he seems to be a rising star. I think the way his emotions speak in his face might have something to do with it but frankly I find him slightly annoying. I blame that all on me though I have not seen Les mis by the way.
"Attention, your attention please. This is the provisional captain speaking. The traitor running-dog lackey ex-captain is now in chains. Long live the Revolutionary Committee, who will now lead us on the true path of Procreative Anti-abortionism." "Free-Birthers!" Quester Yelped. "We've been Hijacked by Free-Birthers!" This is a snip-it from a John Varley short story that he wrote in 1955, almost twenty years before Roe v. Wade. Here's a snip-it from the next page. "Are you a writer?" she asked. "Yes, I write scientifiction. Maybe you've heard of it. There's a cult following, but we don't reach the general public." "What's it about?" "Scientifiction deals with life on earth. It's set in the future--each of us creates our own hypothetical future with our own ground rules and set of assumptions. The basic assumption is that we figure out a way to fight the Invaders and reclaim the earth, or at least a beachhead. In my stories we've managed to rout the Invaders, but the dophins and whales are still around, and the want their allies back, so humans fight them. It's adventure stuff, purely for thrills. I have a hero called the Panama Kid." She glanced back at him, and he couldn't read the expression. He was used to taking the defensive about his vocation. Is there a living in that?" "I managed to get aboard the Snowball for the final trip didn't I? That wasn't cheap, but then you know that. Say, what do you do for a living?" "Nothing, my mother was a hole hunter. She made a strike in 45' and got rich. She went out again and left the money to me. She's due back in about fifty years, unless she gets swallowed by a hole." "So you were born on Pluto?" "No, I was born in free-fall, about one hundred AU from the sun. I think that's a record so far." She grinned back at him, looking pleased with herself.
Well, there is something about him that IS annoying. You will have a whole different view of him once you see his performance in Les Mis. When you do, please PM me so I can get your thoughts. I might miss a post in this thread. I was lucky to see this one.
