Posted on 01/08/2017 9:15:35 AM PST by Mercat
Here’s my own personal opinion... Shakespeare can be pretty obscure and boring if one tries to sit down and read it. I didn’t really learn to love Shakespeare until I started watching all the old performances of it. I say “old” and mean the Royal Shakespeare Company which did most of the plays back in the 70s. Derek Jacobi and Alan Rickman were two of the regulars. My favorite A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the 1935 version starring Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, and James Cagney. It gets a bit tedious towards the end but generally is wonderful. I also have listened to a lot of the dramatizations. Actually, I have started doing something similar with the Bible. As I said, the first two times through it I listened - to Max McLean. Now I don’t but I do read certain passages out loud. If you read it as a family it sounds like you do too. Much more powerful since most of it was oral tradition and even in the NT the letters and stories were read over and over.
Finally, I recommend two books that really got me going about Shakespeare - both by Joseph Pearce - The Quest for Shakespeare and Through Shakespeare’s Eyes. We should have a Shakespeare ping list on freepers.
Have you seen any of the new movies the BBC has done? You can watch them streaming from PBS.org. The series is called “The Hollow Crown.” The Henry IV/V set starred Tom Hiddleston (”Loki”) as Prince Hal/Henry V, and Benedict Cumberbatch, from “Sherlock,” was Richard III.
You're right Taxchick - similar to how we've been forced by circumstances to accept the moniker 'deplorable'...
Acceptance and pride in the term 'deplorable' saves our sense of dignity and removes a weapon liberal elites would use against us... Still, on some levels those terms are uncomfortable...
Deplorable, “bitter clinger,” “right-wing internet crazies,” or whatever it was ... if you say, “Okay, fine, that’s what I am,” you dismiss the attempt to dismiss you. I’ve been called a “breeder” and a “womb-whore.” Okay, fine. The future looks like me, not like you. (General “you,” there, not you personally.)
If you check out “Hillbilly Elegy” from the library and don’t like it, you haven’t lost much. Some posters above said it was badly written, but I thought it was perfectly competent.
I’m looking forward to reading “Hillbilly Elegy” as it’s got some great reviews. Much of my family lives in northern Alabama and I spent a lot of time there growing up. I got back in touch with many of them during the recent campaign on FB and they were 100% for Trump and have high hopes for his presidency. I hope he does not disappoint and I don’t think he will!
It looks like their on my watchlist and I forgot about them. About a month ago my granddaughter walked through the room haha and now I can’t get the Internet to work on my “smart” TV. So I’ll watch them on my computer.
Worth your time. Start at the beginning.
“How Not to be Wrong” by Ellerberg. Probably not the most conservative book, but one of the branch librarians is a lesbian, an employee at the main library is a transsexual and I have noticed that most of the books on display are now pro-sodomy, especially in the teen section.
I’m making assumptions (that probably aren’t true)based on the changes I’ve observed in our rural library system.
Bookmarked.
Huh. I wasn’t going to take an interest in that for quite a while.
My library has it available on the shelf. Hard to see how the topic would provoke sexual deviants! Maybe someone swiped it.
I had my math loving husband in mind for that one. He finds the order and consistency of arithmetic soothing.
He married a fairly random and sort of creative person. And all six children take after their mother. Poor guy.
We have a mix.
Thanks. I’ll look it up.
Totally missing is historical education and perspective about one of the most explosively expensive (ruinous) and pervasive issues of the last 40 years: climate change.
I would add at least these three:
Global Crisis, Geoffrey Parker [LF]
The Third Horseman, William Rosen[LF]
The Dust Bowl, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns [LF]
Most of the books in my digital library are read on an Amazon (small) Paper White Kindle. (NO COLOR)
I also have the FREE Kindle for the PC "app" and Kindle for iPAD 2 which are both recommended for reading any title I display as [LF] above, which have large color maps and other illustrations or material which cannot really be displayed usefully on a monochrome or grayscale small display.
I read a book about the Dust Bowl, but it didn’t involve Ken Burns. I’ve read other books on recent environmental issues, including one about the papyrus plant (as an icon of water quality in Africa) and another about bats.
Me too!
I have a way to use the catalog that i bought the clerks at the Los Angeles Public Library to use, You may have figured it out too.
Every few weeks, I open up their website, at the same time I open up the Amazon.com website in another window. i go through the books on Amazon and pick out the ones I want to buy ... put them in my cart. Then I go to the LAPL site and put a hold on all those books! Saves a big chunk of money!
I go to the bookstore in the mall and look for books I want, then request them from the library. I haven’t tried browsing Amazon!
Easy.
An inside job, or other brainless hillerite doing her personal best to prevent YOU and other conservatives or undecideds from reading it.
Bump for next pension check.
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