I may have seen some of him, he looks familiar :O

If you saw it only long ago, I highly recommend it :) You would surely appreciate Brett's acting, he IS Sherlock Holmes :)

I like RDJ too but he is so stuck up DX

I loved the Brett versions of Sherlock Holmes too!

I have now watched all but the last season of the Poirot series and I feel like those do a similarly good job of capturing the books/stories.

I like him as Iron Man but I can't deal with his Sherlock Holmes at all, it's unwatchable for me. I like the one on Elementary though, I have forgotten the actor's name. He's clearly not the original, he's like a modern translation, so it isn't as irritating when he's not a match up.

Agreed. I couldn't get into Elementary, Lucy Lu was weird for me as Watson and idk if it was to much thinking or what but I felt lost all the time XD

I don't like RDJ, he acts totally as NOT Sherlock Holmes ;) I like more classical approach ^^

Poirot! I love him so much, the same people who made Poirot made Brett's Holmes, they are the best at painting the realia of the times :) Plus David Suchet... ^^

I love how you say Agreed and then disagree, LOL Or maybe you were agreeing about Poirot? Because it is a really good series.

I do like Lucy Liu as Watson, again she is clearly not meant to be the original so it annoys me less when there is no match up, and I like hard to follow shows sometimes (weird right). I mean, I feel like if they eventually explain it, the part where I was confused seems exciting in retrospect? I feel this way about books also. Some of my favorite books are terribly confusing in the middle and then make sense at the end. I bet it is because I read mysteries first, what do you think? Mysteries take advantage of this format.

When I was in first grade, I had a neighbor friend (really more my sister's friend than mine, but all of os played together) who had all the classic kids mystery series like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, Trixie Belden. I borrowed them and read every one of all but Nancy Drew (those seemed like too grown up for me somehow when I was six ;) ) so much reading fun. I think they moved away when I was in 2nd grade but I'd read all the books anyway... my sister missed her a lot more than I did. ;)

For some reason I was scared to pick out my own books at the library. I think a librarian said something that put me off ... because I was so little and reading above my age level I guess? But I don't recall for sure. Anyway I got my mother to pick out all my library books - she'd go find ten or fifteen, and I'd pick the ones I hadn't already read out of the pile and check those out, she was not good at remembering what I had already read so there were usually only seven or eight to take home ;)

Then when I was in fifth grade the library started to have remainder sales and the books were only 10 cents each. They had them once or twice a year, and I'd go wait for the opening and rush in and buy as many books as I could carry with my allowance! That's how I started most of my book collection!

About five years ago I stopped buying very many books, I have way too many (probably over 3000) and instead I just read them on the Kindle or download them to my phone. It's kind of a shame but also it's way lighter weight and less clutter, so ... tradeoffs.

Sorry I was agreeing that he is good at Iron Man but that’s about it XDD Yeah I understand what you are saying. I always like Encyclopedia Brown! Our school library would give old books away some times and I have a ton of those. I don’t have nearly the books you do though, where do you keep them all? :O

He plays himself and that’s it whatever role he is in and he is not Sherlock Holmes! lol

I actually love RDJ but not in this movie ;) Have you ever seen Restorations with him? Perfect movie.

No :O That looks good homg! lol gonna have to go watch it now!

I have a dozen or so of bookshelves, six feet tall and about three feet wide all over the house and the books stay on those mostly ;)

I haven't seen Restorations, what is it about?

Noice! I have one set of book shelves that are already full and no place to put more ug!

That's alright. It's been a while haha. And yeah it was all alright until yesterday one of my roommates and my best, closest friend decided they were going to stay in New York and not come back...:/ And no I worked all the time the sun was out sadly...

Haha yeah, my friend is a good driver and has a new car I can practice in so it's good.

I really recommend Restoration, it's historical drama about the doctor who goes through hard time to find who he really is, helping the people under the curse of the plague. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114272/ RDJ shows true mastership in his role!

That's good ^^ I would be worried about driving a new car, my husband doesn't like to drive mine, its newer cause he doesn't wanna wreck it :P

I wonder if netflix has it, I doubt it D:

hi! So many questions in my mind about this New York surprise, wow. A real surprise, your roommate and your friend deciding they liked it so much in New York they would just stay there! Doesn't the roommate at least owe you rent for the rest of the lease till you find a replacement? I would be shocked, at the suddenness of it at the least. Are they one person (same person is both roommate and close friend) or two different people? If they're two different people - are they a couple? Because otherwise it's mind boggling that they both made such a big change so abruptly.

if it isn't on netflix now I'll send it to their request queue

Oh will they add it if you request it? :O

it's hard to know if they will or won't, but I like to think it makes it a little more likely

Well good to know. Never tried that before ^^ Not easy to rent anymore since blockbuster isn't around :P

The French revolution is interesting and I've recently read The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel. I think there are 2 more in the series but I haven't read them yet. I know they are novels but they are based on history.

I fell in love with history due to a teacher that was obsessed with old samurai movies and we got to watch a lot that year. His excitement about samurais was contagious and I realized history was exciting! Are you Polish? Cause my friend is too. :-)

That sucks you had to work when it was nice! Why did your friend do that? Or you don't have any clue... :-(

I keep forgetting to tell you I checked out "The Way We Live Now" by Trollope. So far it's pretty good but I'm not sure I'll finish it in the allotted time (2 months lol)