All Lit, All the Time

[amberdulen]

I started reading King Lear, and honestly I don't think I'll finish it. I don't know, maybe it's that half the characters have similar names and titles, maybe that Cordelia's total inability to play the yes-man game just doesn't impress me, maybe I'm equally unimpressed with Lear's big hissyfit--and was that a hint of a hidden agenda to keep

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[ketsugami]

Lear has its good points, but I'll admit it's not my favorite bit of Shakespeare. It's refreshingly downbeat, at least, and I like the Fool.

The only problem with my book is that since my last name is "Wexler", it'll end up on the last of my shelves, i.e. one inch off the floor. I should have picked a pen name like "Aaronson".

[amberdulen]

Or you could flip it around, and go by "Wex Django" which now that I think about it is not such a bad name. :)

[irked_indeed]

I hadn't realized that connection until we read King Lear in Civ Lit this semester. Finding "Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower came" in the midst of an otherwise drab section was an unexpected bonus. Ah, well- there's a fun villain, anyway.

'Course, you could always follow the Tower's lineage to its most recent incarnation... if you wanted.

[tahmthelame]

I was actually just going to ask if you wanted to borrow my copies. Because you know, I now have every one except for number seven, and by the time you got through The Gunslinger all the way up to Song of Susannah, I'm sure DT7 will have come out in paperback and I'll have gotten it in my grubby little paws somehow...

Come on, uninterrupted reading of a fantastic modern-day epic! What's not to love??

[subsidaryforge]

I'm terribly fond of King Lear. Probably my favorite Shakespeare at that. But ... well ... it's also the most gruesome Shakespeare and the maddest (in the non madcap sense), so it's no surprise.