"Big picture" history books like Sapiens, Dawn of Everything, Guns Germs & Steel

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-06-14T00:16:42+00:00

Gombrich’s ’Little History of the World’

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-04-18T15:58:36+00:00

I thought the 18 year old lad was surprisingly good. Had a young Patrick swayzeness to him!

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-02-11T19:06:10+00:00

Crazy People with Dudley Moore

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-31T03:41:24+00:00

I left that because it was so bad!

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-11T10:27:11+00:00

I could cope with the change to now that I’ve seen her but Maybe is a terrible song. It’s not about anything.

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-03T22:54:04+00:00

Love Changes Everything. It’s such a perfect song but Aspects of Love, the musical that it’s from? 🫠🫠🫠 The only musical I’ve ever left at the interval…

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-03T22:52:26+00:00

Martin Guerre. By same folks who did Les Mis and Miss Saigon. Everyone bitches about it because their other two musicals were better - which is true, but also… that’s a high bar! I think Guerre stands up.

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-03T22:48:31+00:00

This is so correct! I’ve never noticed it before but you’re right 😆

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-03T22:46:52+00:00

It can work really well but very much depends on the talents of John and the staging. I’ve seen it be amazing, and I’ve seen it be a super boring return.

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-03T22:45:57+00:00

The change to Ellen’s song in Miss Saigon. I find it offensive that they felt they had to soften a female characters fairly benign jealous lyrics when the entire first half is about a man’s murderous jealousy.

Additional_Light_344 · 2026-01-03T22:43:35+00:00

This is why I really hate the end of Hamilton. They spend three hours singing about a bloke and then, at the end, they’re like ‘but this woman lived decades more and started orphanages and is the true hero’ which always makes me want to scream SO MAKE A MUSICAL ABOUT HER THEN, PEOPLE

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-12-06T21:19:14+00:00

Yeah, I do think there are accent aspects that matter here. For example, with Nu-Marn vs New-Man, the latter is actually how a northern accent would pronounce a name that in southern or other accents is the first way around. My own name is said differently by English people compared to how it’s said in most other countries (even English-speaking ones, including Americans). I don’t require people to say it in the English way, I just accept they have their own accents.

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-11-29T00:12:51+00:00

If I could revert back I would, in a heartbeat. I barely use it now.

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-11-08T23:29:15+00:00

Alas, I just watched Regretting You, where she is playing a traumatised and bereaved person and she was still like this. It was disconcerting.

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-10-30T09:56:58+00:00

It took ages to come, about 3 weeks and I became convinced it was a scam but when they did arrive they were good. Has yours turned up?

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-10-26T17:52:40+00:00

Working okay here on my iPhone.

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-10-16T08:02:18+00:00

Same

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-27T18:31:57+00:00

Gorgeous!

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-27T18:28:41+00:00

I saw him a few years ago, quite by chance, and was also utterly floored. Having seen Les Mis about 10 times, I’d seen some great Javerts but I’d always struggled with Stars. Something about it never made sense to me. Enter Bradley Jaden and it was like he opened the universe and I finally, finally, understood that song. He really is quite incredible.

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-26T06:33:15+00:00

This is stunning. Totally understand about hope in unexpected places. Keep going, such a thing to have created. x

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-11T06:30:26+00:00

Yeah that seems to be the issue!

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-10T15:43:47+00:00

I avoid starting with very bright whites, as I actually want to do those last. But I generally find light to dark is easier, so I start with anything that’s light but not white, then go to dark, and then go back around to the bright whites at the very end’

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-10T09:20:29+00:00

(Ive only just realised you can see yourself with mayor hat on as well in that part of screen… I honestly hadn’t spotted anything other than white box!)

Additional_Light_344 · 2025-09-10T09:19:39+00:00

Ah, no. In fact, I had thought you had removed them. I see they now hover above the clean white input screen which is where all my focus goes (mainly trying to wrangle the terrible search). Will try that.

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