Excuses offered by my roommate for not having read "Hamlet" when it was assigned to him in college

• It's a play and plays are meant to be seen and performed, not read
• It's too long
• Shakespeare is really dense
• He had read some of the other plays already
• He was depressed
• It was for a stagecraft class, it wasn't like he had to write a paper on it
• It was a shitty time in his life
• He watched the Mel Gibson movie
• It was a long, cold winter
• He gave it a shot but only made it through 20 pages
• It's overrated

Filmbook-to-be: Dostoevsky's "The Double"

This is absolutely the first time ol' Fyodor has ever gotten an exclusive. I bet on his deathbed it was all "Well, we'll make room in the obits tomorrow."