itt WOLF HALL the book by hilary mantel and the upcoming hbo/bbc miniseries based on the same

the loyalties of call-me-risley are still up in the air where I am in the book, for example.

don't worry, they stay that way! maybe that's already a spoiler tho

how happy were you all to see rafe land the hot widow

The section meditating on More's and Barton's coming punishments and his dream of his daughter is killing me with its mix of death and pathos. That list of Barton's belongings is so increasingly sad.

No BUTB thread, but I'm enjoying the second book a lot more because Mantel's making the politics a lot more obvious, whereas in WH, I got the sense that it was shrouded in stylistic hijinks.

Also, someone should gift WH to Scalia, think he'd enjoy it.

keep losing my thread but nearly through this now

skipped to the end to check the pagecount and discovered there's an interesting interview w/mantel and an essay on writing historical lit. both prob interesting & worth reading before finishing the book

what happened to the tv show is that gonna me on

also normal sized hardcovers (ie BUtB) give you tiny balls but smaller size hardcovers rule the school

October story in the Guardian

The actor Mark Rylance is to be reunited with the director of the television drama about the death of the weapons inspector Dr David Kelly for an "intensely political" £7m BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning Wolf Hall novels.

Peter Kosminsky, the award-winning director of a string of docu-dramas based on contemporary events – including Channel 4's The Government Inspector, which starred Rylance as Kelly – may at first glance appear an unlikely choice for a historical costume piece.

However, Kosminsky shares with Mantel a reputation for indepth research – the Wolf Hall author spent five years investigating the 16th-century historical background to her narrative on the grim political machinations of Henry VIII's court.

Rylance will play the main protagonist, the Tudor king's adviser Thomas Cromwell, in the six-part adaptation of Wolf Hall for BBC2, which is expected to be broadcast in 2015. The BBC will also broadcast the sequel Bring Up the Bodies and producer Company Pictures has an option on the as-yet-unpublished final book of Mantel's Tudor trilogy, The Mirror and the Light.

Wolf Hall follows Cromwell's career as he ascends from a lowly start as a blacksmith's son to becoming an indispensable ally of Cardinal Wolsey, succeeding him as Henry's VIII's chief adviser after Wolsey's downfall.

Kosminsky said: "This is a first for me. But it is an intensely political piece. It is about the politics of despotism, and how you function around an absolute ruler. I have a sense that Hilary Mantel wanted that immediacy."

love chapuys

catherine is incredible too

My most dear lord, King and husband,

The hour of my death now drawing on, the tender love I owe thou forceth me, my case being such, to commend myselv to thou, and to put thou in remembrance with a few words of the healthe and safeguard of thine soul which thou ougte to preferce before all worldley matters, and before the care and pampering of thy body, for the which thoust have cast me into many calamities and thineselv into many troubles. For my part, I pardon thou everything, and I desire to devoutly pray God that He will pardon thou also.

going to be sweet when anne... *finger across throat*

pampering of thy body

o_O

feel like there could def be more than one more book come on

bring us right up to present day, hil

i havent felt this way since the bourne movies that the artist shd be compelled by law to make a new one every year before theyre allowed to do anything else

i want her to finish this up and then we can get some books on other historical subjects

would like to see mantel on italian unification e.g. or one of the russian revolutions.

This fucking book

Spent all day glued to the couch ripping through this, LOVE it

Did you rip through because there wasn't any Project Runway this week? :D

lol no

I even ripped through it all day Sunday without turning on the TV once despite FOOTBALL
which is like O_O

FINISHED

need the sequel. goddamn that was a great book

2/3 of the way through Bring Up The Bodies

shit totally just shifted up a gear am literally planning my evening around reading this now
omg I can't even stand it
srsly how great is this

this is a cool way to learn abt history

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

seriously considered calling in sick to read wolf hall last week

i read a place of greater safety and it's great

present continuous

im goin to this

http://www.wolfhall.co.uk/imgs/generic/Wolf-Hall-Bring-Up-The-Bodies.png

I have only read the first novel but it's very good, you could even say brilliant.

The stage version would be a good thing to go to.

i'm reading the first one now, it is brilliant, i'm very happy there's a sequel.

just finished second one

why can't all books be this good srsly

i guess i am the only one in the world who got bored by Wolf Hall

off with yr head

what happened to the hbo/bbc mark rylance series that was supposed to happen?

i guess i am the only one in the world who got bored by Wolf Hall

― nostormo, Monday, March 10, 2014

i got wolf hall for my wife, who devours books and loves historical novels. she didn't get through wolf hall at all. she said it was very well-written, but too cold. i'm going to try reading it sometime soon.

i love the way mantel writes but i am maybe not 100% on her characters? i had to put wolf hall down at least temporarily b/c t crom is like way too good at everything. he is the best at scheming and politickin and he's a bad dude in general. like he's jack reacher.

i mean obv this doesn't last forever given what ultimately goes down but does it ease up in the 2nd one?

Nah.

nope

I kinda missed rafe in the second one, call-me is a poor substitue (and obv crom knows it too)

not a spoiler btw, rafe's just not in it as much

He's getting busy, I hear.

what happened to the hbo/bbc mark rylance series that was supposed to happen?

― max, Monday, March 10, 2014 11:25 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah really

its happenin

same script as the play?

play adapt: Mike Poulton

miniseries adapt: Peter Straughan

Filming will commence in Spring 2014 for transmission in 2015

thx!

twenty fifteeeeeeeeeen

that's too long ;_;

transmission

Keeping Cromwell's posse and all the people of court straight is the hardest part about these.

the court ppl i had the hardest time with, lord this & duke that

I still can't really differentiate between Norfolk and Suffolk! Folk them tbh.

totes

Like, one of them is blustery, and the other is... pious and blustery.