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No. Reading in the car makes me really sick. Not to mention hazardous, since I'm usually driving at the same time. So I resort to audiobooks! :)

Oops. I checked the price difference between the US and the UK versions of the Paperwhite. Have I ever mentioned that my nickname is El Cheapo? It's a hundred bucks!!! But the prospect of simply walking into an Argos or Tesco for one...

You *are* informed indeed! I'm beyond impressed. And I better not find out you stay in Hong Kong and are secretly laughing at me. You must start recommending me more stuff to watch. I've not picked up any of the old kungfu classics, I must say, and the oldest I've done are the Drunken Master...

Shaolin Soccer is ugh. Lots of people like it though. I thought it was just too nuts. Kungfu Hustle much better. In Hustle, most of the actors who played the inhabitants of the apartments were specifically cast - they are actually actors from old Hong Kong kungfu films. Much like Tarantino's...

No, no, wrong with asking, of course. Nothing at all to do with whatever he did in real life. It's just that I grew up watching Leslie in his various roles for many many years, and over time there's this stereotypical pigeon-holing that happens in my head. My memory of his many effeminate roles...

I completely missed the Carlos drama. I'm sad.

I do indeed. She's flying there right now. Can she pick it up from the shops, or do we have to do the mail order thing and have it delivered to where she's staying in the UK?

The germans again?

Ah... that little hiccup. Forgot about that. You'd wish the Germans would take a leaf from the Swedes and not dub any show not in their native language, but subtitle them instead. Thinking about it though, I don't think you'd really miss anything without the dialogue. :)

I'm really pining for a Paperwhite. Like seriously want one. Nobody I know is going to the States at the moment. Arrrgh. I'm now relying on my Galaxy S3 (which I love), and my trusty iPad (which strangely keeps going to the Eurosports and the Comixology apps instead of the ebooks I loaded on...

Hey there!

I actually found a thread I started 8 years ago (wtf, has it been that long????) here on wuxia/kungfu flicks. If anyone's interested: http://www.bookandreader.com/threads/who-likes-kungfu-flicks.6169/ As an aside, I think the search function in this new forum software isn't very good. I...

Ok, Meadow, you've thoroughly convinced me of your street cred. If you actually know there are 2 Tony Leungs, then you're no ordinary watcher of HK flicks. I don't know the current crop of younger HK actors very well, as I've been really out of touch. I keep to my kungfu/wuxia/brawlers when it...

And why, for an enterprising gentleman such as yourself, do you have to do that?

Once? That's pretty good... I struggle almost every other book.

The Chinese has a saying, roughly translated to "you see me good, i see you good." Which more or less means we see only the good sides of each other, without really knowing the bad stuff behind the scenes. My banana avatar hides all. I have plenty of dirt on that pesky beer good. Bribe me and...

Have you seen the film, though? I would like to just pop in and see if the movie's as great as all that.

I'm the most well-behaved forumer ever. I hardley ever mispell a word. And so I have a huge banana as an avatar. When has that hurt anyone?

I've seen the Redux, and from what I've read there's really not much of a difference, except there were extended bits. Very stylish stuff, and it's weird seeing the icons of the Three Kingdoms depicted as such. Certainly Leslie Cheung was strange - a little too much baggage associated with him...

U Wow, wuxia lovers! Awesome! I really really like them, grew up with them practically. The newer ones tend to be catered more towards 'respectability' rather than good ole fun, but if they're good then great! I liked Ashes Of Time, and recently, The Grandmaster, both by Wong Kar Wai. The...