I sold all of my individual sets to buy this overview of every episode of the greatest TV show ever made, and I am not regretting it for a second.
Any box set bringing together seasons of the West Wing has an excellent starting point. And this new set does its subject matter proud, improving on the individual season sets in a number of ways.
For a start, it offers five hours of pretty excellent extras - documentaries, bloopers, deleted scenes, among other things. It is a shame there are no cast or production commentaries on any of the episodes, but the extras are all fine in themselves.
The previous packaging for the season-by-season sets - the card-based,… Read more
Many will be put off by the sheer size of this weighty tome. At more than 800 pages, it is not a quick book. But it is one of the most fulfilling reads of recent years. The story of a wealthy man who befriends and effectively adopts a prostitute as his mistress in Victorian London, it is a story rich in lush detail, from the explicit depiction of his relationship with his woman through to the sumptuous evocation of life in the British capital in the 19th Century. It was a book which, once started, I couldn't put down - the characters are so vividly and emotively drawn, I was compelled to follow their lives through to the conclusion of this story. It is crying out to be dramatised and,… Read more
I reached the age of 36 before reading To Kill A Mockingbird for the first time. My emotions are divided; disappointment that I had spent so long getting round to reading such a magnificent book; but excited to be discovering such a work of art.
The plot is outlined in other reviews here, so I won't go there. But, this is a gripping, touching, triumph of a novel, with barely a wasted page (perhaps even a sentence).
Nobody should do what I did, and leave it another day without reading it.
