hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2010-11-09 02:03 pm

I have heard the promised land

Yesterday I was gifted with the most holiest of holies: Benedict Cumberbatch reading Kafka's Metamorphosis. I love Kafka. Yes, I really am one of those people. I think you lot know my feelings about Benedict. With these two things combined I walked around town with the most insipid smile ever. And I don't care. But this is all I have. I need more. I must have more. I am begging you. If you have more Benedict audiobooks, whatever the hell they are: novels, non-fiction, script readings, children's books, the shopping list. Please. Please share them with me. I am in need. I am in so much need. (And probably other people are in need too, so think about all the good will you'd be putting out in the world!)

Re: I think you found my post with the

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-11-10 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
You are the kind keeper of the Folder of Awesome? Yes, I have found it and it is a wondrous thing, thank you so much. I must ask is The Pillow Book the film version or a reading of the book itself?
ext_8947: Bronze age Kronos face with Evildrem written in corner (Sherlock - Moriarty)

If you are talking about the film

[identity profile] evildrem.livejournal.com 2010-11-10 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
..with Ewan McGregor in then no it is nothing to do with that. Its a dramatisation of part of the book by Sei Shonagon and set in Japan. Very interesting and nicely acted.

Re: If you are talking about the film

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2010-11-10 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh excellent, that's what I was hoping for.