There are monsters and witches and Sirens and adventures and sheep and pigs.
But Odysseus is such a jerk.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Dana - Apr 07, 2009 12:05:04 pm PDT #8696 of 28431
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
javachik - Apr 07, 2009 12:11:42 pm PDT #8697 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
java - do you have any Shakespeare ones? If the library doesn't take them, I'm sure CJ would love them.
I think so. I'll take a look when I get home!
Scrappy - Apr 07, 2009 12:19:38 pm PDT #8698 of 28431
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I LOVED this book when I was a kid and it engendered a fascination with mythology. I still have a copy! [link]
Barb - Apr 07, 2009 12:23:12 pm PDT #8699 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
And it will say, "can I borrow some of these books?"
Heh-- that would be funny.
It should be a note of extreme praise of your parenting skills.
Alas, given today's educational and/or parenting climate, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a "C'mon, I know he didn't really read THESE books/stories. No kid reads these."
sj - Apr 07, 2009 12:27:05 pm PDT #8700 of 28431
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Alas, given today's educational and/or parenting climate, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a "C'mon, I know he didn't really read THESE books/stories. No kid reads these."
Yeah. Sadly that comes from some parents too. When I worked at the bookstore I was always disappointed when a parent would talk a kid out of getting the book on his or her reading list that they really wanted to read because the kid assumed it's too hard.
My advice for any kid trying to read Shakespeare for the first time, is to try to read it out loud, it makes so much more sense that way. Of course, this advice usually gets me an eyeroll response.
Barb - Apr 07, 2009 12:43:10 pm PDT #8701 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
My advice for any kid trying to read Shakespeare for the first time, is to try to read it out loud, it makes so much more sense that way. Of course, this advice usually gets me an eyeroll response.
I'm actually planning on playing Branagh's version of Much Ado and giving the kids the script to follow. I think the brilliance in his adaptations is he took Shakespeare from sounding as if it was something that had to be enunciated to the back rrrrrrrrow and returned it to a more conversational, "real" cadence.
I also have audio recordings of Branagh doing Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet on CD.
sj - Apr 07, 2009 12:56:45 pm PDT #8702 of 28431
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm actually planning on playing Branagh's version of Much Ado and giving the kids the script to follow. I think the brilliance in his adaptations is he took Shakespeare from sounding as if it was something that had to be enunciated to the back rrrrrrrrow and returned it to a more conversational, "real" cadence.
This is also an excellent idea. The only problem with some films, they cut out large sections of the text. I don't think that is as much of a problem with Branagh.
DavidS - Apr 07, 2009 1:13:04 pm PDT #8703 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But Odysseus is such a jerk.
Compared to Achilles?
Sophia Brooks - Apr 07, 2009 1:17:55 pm PDT #8704 of 28431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Achilles, what a heel!
Kathy A - Apr 07, 2009 1:25:07 pm PDT #8705 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I tried watching Olivier's Henry V, and since it was a filming of a stage production as opposed to a re-creation along the lines of Branagh's version, I just couldn't deal with it any more and turned it off.
Also, I love Jacobi's Chorus. "Oh, for a muse of fire that wouldst ascend the brightest heaven of invention."