The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
May 5, 2016
There’s an unexpected prison friendship, a gaol break and hidden treasure!
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There’s an unexpected prison friendship, a gaol break and hidden treasure!
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My favourite game in the world is to pretend Dean is better than him and watch Jess truthers spin out. We all know that Logan was the best.
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There were two stories that gave me brilliant Gilmore Girls epiphanies.
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As a confessional poet, Sexton’s writing covers similar ground to that of Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino: mother-daughter relationships, getting pregnant and un-pregnant; you know, girly stuff.
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The Comedy of Errors is exactly what you’d expect: a play made funny by the errors and poor intuition of its central characters.
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“Patrick Lenton and Rory Gilmore can go straight to hell”
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It is best to read every sentence as if you are Stephen Fry eating a large sponge cake; jolly good.
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I remember loving A Clockwork Orange. Now I’ve read it again, it’s still good – deeply unsettling, but obviously well written.
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Matilda Dixon-Smith on Mad Max as a feminist film, and the failure of other blockbusters to keep up.
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The fact that Jess is shown reading books LIKE Catcher in the Rye conspicuously to get Rory’s attention is just … so … teenage boy type.
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Matilda Dixon-Smith reviews and regrets Will Gluck’s remake of Annie.
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Catch-22’s kind of pathos overlaid with comedy made me think of Kirk from Gilmore Girls.
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Carrie basically follows a kind of Mean Girls meets She’s All That narrative, except there’s a whole bunch of traumatic menstruation-based bullying, and after our protagonist goes through her miraculous prom transformation she destroys the entire town.
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Mitch Alexander on why everyone should read House of Leaves.
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The Canterbury Tales are like the Bible. Full of obscure language and stories that you shouldn’t try to follow too closely but the basic morals are okay.
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For such a slim volume Candide is crazy exhausting. It contains such relentless misery that I felt like I needed a little lie down every two pages or so.
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I can see why Rory Gilmore might enjoy Brick Lane, but I think the book might resonate more strongly with her mother, Lorelai.
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Group sex and conveyor-belt babies aside, Brave New World kind of socked me in the heart with all its ideas about happiness and the human condition.
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Can a shopping aisle have the emotional effect of a Broadway musical or literary canon? Oliver Mol reviews aisle nine at shopping centres across Australia.
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It’s easy to imagine the precocious Rory Gilmore reading Mary McCarthy’s essays. McCarthy is perfect for Rory: clever, insightful and not easily swayed.
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As a treatise on women who defied norms throughout history, Bitch held a lot of promise. But instead it turned into a whirlwind of half-baked theories, personal anecdotes and wild speculation.
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Can a shopping aisle have the emotional effect of a Broadway musical or literary canon? Oliver Mol reviews aisle nine at shopping centres across Australia.
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It’s all very violent and there are battles and demons, and when I say it like this, it all sounds cool. But I didn’t understand what was happening.
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One thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
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I didn’t want to read this book. I had a vague idea of what it was about – harrowing slavery, a woman with a dead baby.
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In a way, you might say The Bell Jar is Rory and Lorelai’s detective fiction and muscle cars.
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I kind of want to live in Stars Hollow, but also I realise that I would probably go insane almost immediately.
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Comedian Ben Pobjie steps offstage to review and rate his audience at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Audience: Ben Pobjie’s Trigger Warning Venue: The Forum, Melbourne International Comedy Festival **1/2 The audience began this show with great promise, managing to…
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Now, I have to admit, when it comes to the Dean/Jess debate, I’m on team Jess.
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Faludi examines gender roles and the idea that, because there are women who feel disappointed or disheartened by feminism, and because there are those who claim that it has no relevance today (certain media outlets and politicians for example), shows that we still need feminism.
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