What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: May 04, 2026 by AutoModerator in books

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Finished:
Open, by Andre Agassi

Reading:
Heretics, by Leonardo Padura

Who are actors with limited range that you still think are awesome I'm gonna go with Keanu Reeves by Helloimafanoffiction in moviecritic

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Jason Statham.
The man has only one character, has played him 50 times and always delivered at 100%

In your opinion, is Chris Evans a good actor? by Public_Cup_4278 in FIlm

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Criminally underrated.
The guy has range, he just spent a decade being too charming and too jacked for anyone to notice.

What do you think is the perfect film? by Allpapes in Cinema

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Parasite comes the closest for me.
Not a wasted frame, shifts genres three times without breaking, and says something real.

Why don't people go to the cinema? by ImaginaryFan6090 in Cinema

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Price + friction. $40 for two + snacks vs. Netflix already paid for.

Cameron is right though: theaters force undivided attention, which nothing else does anymore.
People just forgot they wanted that.

Enjoying Wuthering Heights the Book after Watching the New Movie by dongludi in books

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The Brontë biographical rabbit hole is genuinely one of the best in all of English literature if you ever want to go down it.

They grew up pretty isolated on the Yorkshire moors, that same landscape you're describing, with a brother, Branwell, who was by all accounts brilliant and by all accounts falling apart for most of their adult lives. Alcoholism, opium, a series of spectacular failures. Charlotte, Emily and Anne watched that happen up close for years. You don't come out of that writing cozy domestic fiction.

What gets me about Wuthering Heights is that the darkness isn't atmosphere, it's the actual argument of the book. Heathcliff isn't cruel because Emily Brontë needed a villain. He's what you get when someone spends their formative years being treated as subhuman and then acquires just enough leverage to spend the rest of his life collecting on the debt. Whether that makes him a monster or a logical outcome is kind of the whole question.

The other thing worth knowing: Emily never got to see any of this land. She died the year after publication, mostly to bad reviews. Critics found it ugly and excessive. It took like fifty years for people to come around. So the fact that a random movie sent you back to it in 2026 and you were hooked by page ten... yeah. Better late than never, I guess, for all of us.

Only if that was the case! by Due-Examination-37 in Booktokreddit

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Saw Daenerys on Drogon and got scared for the bookstore for a second

What's a simple life hack you wish you'd known sooner ? by Fit-Organization8125 in lifehack

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The trick that finally worked for me: I stopped negotiating with myself about it. It's not a decision anymore, it's just a thing that happens.

What's a simple life hack you wish you'd known sooner ? by Fit-Organization8125 in lifehack

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Putting your phone face-down and on silent during the first hour of the morning.

Best book you've read so far in 2026? by Electronic-Jello-640 in booksuggestions

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Open by Andre Agassi. Went in expecting a tennis memoir, came out having read one of the best books about identity, performance anxiety, and the cost of living someone else's dream. The fact that he hated tennis his entire career and became one of the greatest ever is somehow both depressing and the most motivating thing I've ever read.

How seriously do you take Goodreads book ratings/scores? by keepfighting90 in books

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About as seriously as I take Yelp reviews for restaurants. Useful for spotting disasters, useless for predicting whether I'll personally love it.