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Waiting for Godot (Eng rev): A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Community Reviews back

by Samuel Beckett
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xndrme
xndrme rated it 10 years ago
Perhaps the most interesting thing on this book is the absolute lack of interesting things within it :). But is just theater of the absurd so I think is really on topic :)
Garden-of-Stars
Garden-of-Stars rated it 10 years ago
They don't lie when they say that 'Waiting for Godot" isn't for everyone, and that not everyone will understand it. For me I didn't really have an option on the matter as this was mandatory reading for my IB English curriculum. I found it to be the written equivalent of Dali or Picasso, whose work I...
My Reading World!
My Reading World! rated it 11 years ago
خلال قراءتي للمسرحية حاولت إيجاد تفسير لثرثرتهم وفقاً لما ينعكس من واقعهم الاجتماعي المؤلم، حاولت إيجاد رابط ما بين الحرب و ما تجرّه من دمار ويأس عليهم وبين عبثية صاموئيل اللامتناهية على المسرح، بدت لي وكأنها حركة تمرد عفوية غير قابلة للإستيعاب، كأنها محاوله يائسة للتعبير عن التمرد الاجتماعي على الح...
My Reading World!
My Reading World! rated it 11 years ago
خلال قراءتي للمسرحية حاولت إيجاد تفسير لثرثرتهم وفقاً لما ينعكس من واقعهم الاجتماعي المؤلم، حاولت إيجاد رابط ما بين الحرب و ما تجرّه من دمار ويأس عليهم وبين عبثية صاموئيل اللامتناهية على المسرح، بدت لي وكأنها حركة تمرد عفوية غير قابلة للإستيعاب، كأنها محاوله يائسة للتعبير عن التمرد الاجتماعي على الح...
Elham
Elham rated it 11 years ago
Didi and Gogo are waiting for Godot. They are waiting, but he never comes. Every day, he sends a boy to inform them that he cannot come today and will definitely come tomorrow.This waiting is so boring for them. They even decide to hang themselves on a tree to escape from this boredom. Fortunately, ...
Fangirls Ahead!
Fangirls Ahead! rated it 11 years ago
I can totally understand why people hate this play, because ... nothing happens. Or "less than nothing," as one critic put it. But I think that fact makes it so compelling. Maybe our lives are just like this, without us knowing it. And sometimes it's just plain funny.
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 11 years ago
You spin me right round, babyRight round like a record, babyRight round round roundStill absurd. Quite ridiculous. Occasionally philosophical. However, since its completion, the comedy of Waiting for Godot has become commonplace. Because the humor could be said to be Three Stooges-esque at times, on...
Ironic Contradictions
Ironic Contradictions rated it 11 years ago
It seems that in some ways we are all 'waiting for Godot', at least this is the theme that appears to come through Samuel Beckett's classic and acclaimed two act play. Part of the genius of this play is the fact that it was written as an apparent diversion from the prose Beckett had been writing at ...
nobodhi
nobodhi rated it 12 years ago
His own translation of his original French text is indeed brilliant, and doubly so for English being his native language. In and of itself, it is one of the indispensables. -- Who have you seen performing it?
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it 14 years ago
One struggles trying to make sense of this two act play in which absolutely nothing happens. Well, okay, stuff does happen, such as the two main characters Estrogon and Vladamir talking about nothing in particular, and Pozzo and Lucky coming in and leaving, and a little boy entering to tell the hero...
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