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2007 Book List

Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,279
edited September 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I already posted one of these in the AET, but I thought people here would definitely read, eh?

Are you making your 2007 list of "must read" books? If so, what is on it so far?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I want to read all of Shakespeare's plays. I've read about twenty, and I want to nail the rest.
  • HunterandHuntedHunterandHunted Posts: 140
    A lot more of H.L Mencken - only scratched the surface...
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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,279
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I want to read all of Shakespeare's plays. I've read about twenty, and I want to nail the rest.
    What's your favorite play? Mine are Hamlet, Henry 5th, and Taming of the Shrew. Of course I had quite of bit of help understanding them through movie.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'd go for the 1623 Folio versions of the tragedies Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. I also especially like Measure For Measure and his history play, Richard II. Oh, and I like The Tempest, too ...

    But there are plays that I can't quite get into: King John, for example. And, although Cymbeline has some fine dialogue and characterisation, some scenes are set in Roman Britain, while others are seemingly in medieval Italy. (No problem, you might say: however, the play is supposedly set in only one time period.) I did write a paper on the critical reception of Cymbeline, and how its merits, as a romance, have been ignored due to critical obsession with its lack of cohesive historical realism (a concept in literature which post-dates Shakespeare by a couple of hundred years). However, to be honest, I never quite got past the bizarre time frame, myself.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    so tell me fins, have you read stoppard's 'rosenkranz and guildenstern are dead'?


    there's only one book i know for sure i'll be reading next year and that's the final harry pothead.
    i think it's called 'harry pothead and the author who never has to write another book for the rest of her life.'
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    catefrances wrote:
    so tell me fins, have you read stoppard's 'rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead'?


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    I have! I first saw it live, at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge, when I was about fourteen or fifteen.
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