(Original Review, 1981-01-18)The book industry is becoming like the film industry; no new ideas so just reboot or copy a previous story...Star Trek Into Darkness being the most cynical by simply reorganizing original a Trek film script and a couple of cases word for word. If you're into stuff li...
I reckon the first time I encountered this collection was back in high school when our teacher wanted to teach us the Scottish Play, but didn't feel that we were ready to actually start reading the proper text, namely because she felt that maybe we wouldn't fully understand Shakespeare's language (d...
Dense, dry, and difficult to follow. I can't imagine how this book became so popular. There must be better options out there.
Brilliant as an introduction for youngsters.
I have an edition pre-dating ISBNs so I picked this one as being the most representative of it....
I read this in my eighth grade English class since I was 'still too young for Shakespeare' but 'too old for Magic Tree House books'. (The scare quotes indicate my contempt for such arbitrary reading level classifications. I'm pretty sure I could have handled Romeo and Juliet in eighth grade.)Everyon...
[These notes were made in 1983. I read a hardback edition edited by Alfred Ainger:]. I had to push a bit with these. After all, they were never intended to be read straight through without a break, but were published at decent intervals in a magazine. Some are downright idiosyncratic, almost unint...
I vaguely recall some years ago Venezuela set up a government department called the Ministry of Love. The idea was to inculcate in poor women the understanding that their babies from the very moment they were born would respond to any stimuli. Poverty shouldn't stop mothers from giving their babies ...
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