I disliked Kafka when I read The Metamorphosis for my research paper last year (voluntarily, no less!) but then I was assigned "In the Penal Colony" to write another paper on (this time involuntarily) and I loved it. I think he's a much better short story writer than a novelist/novella-ist(?). If you're up for reading a short story, that's definitely a good one.
Angel's a great series, I'm assuming you've already seen Buffy so that you have a good idea who some of these people are and the universe they're in.
That said, Season 4 is kind of like one gigantic opera, things just go from bad to worse, within the story that is. I wouldn't skip Season 5 though, it's an interesting departure and throws a little more comedy back into the mix.
ooh let me know how you like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. I just picked up a copy for 25 cents and debating how high on the to-read list it should be.
presumably if you've seen the mainstream stuff you've seen Weeds and Dexter, but if not, those and pretty much anything else from Showtime is great. I would add The L Word to that list, but it's actually a pretty terrible show if you can look past the hot girls all over each other. But why would you?
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That said, Season 4 is kind of like one gigantic opera, things just go from bad to worse, within the story that is. I wouldn't skip Season 5 though, it's an interesting departure and throws a little more comedy back into the mix.
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presumably if you've seen the mainstream stuff you've seen Weeds and Dexter, but if not, those and pretty much anything else from Showtime is great. I would add The L Word to that list, but it's actually a pretty terrible show if you can look past the hot girls all over each other. But why would you?
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