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[Papy Oli]

1st attempt at reading some Shakespeare. starting with Hamlet.

[North Star]

1st attempt at reading some Shakespeare. starting with Hamlet.

Hast thou read any text from that yonder time afore, Olivier? The complete works is a mighty tome indeed. I'm soon finishing RIII.

[Ken B]

Hast thou read any text from that yonder time afore, Olivier? The complete works is a mighty tome indeed. I'm soon finishing RIII.

Always one of my favourites.
I keep planning on reading HIV, but never doing so. Itsits on the shelf, lowering balefully at me. I have the Shakespeare Without Fear edition in fact! It was 2.99 for both parts together with decent type. I just have to be carefull which side I read is all. 

[Moonfish]

1st attempt at reading some Shakespeare. starting with Hamlet.

I believe that Shakespeare's plays should be experienced...  Ideally in a live performance, but I must admit that subtitles help a great deal!
BBC actually recorded all of his plays. They vary in quality, but overall I was very pleased with BBC's efforts. I usually read a play after having "seen" it.

A great set:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Collection-DVD-Alan-Rickman/dp/B000B6F8V4

[Ken B]

I believe that Shakespeare's plays should be experienced...  Ideally in a live performance, but I must admit that subtitles help a great deal!
BBC actually recorded all of his plays. They vary in quality, but overall I was very pleased with BBC's efforts. I usually read a play after having "seen" it.

A great set:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Collection-DVD-Alan-Rickman/dp/B000B6F8V4

Bad kitty!




That's my wallet talking. This is kinda tempting. The library has a lot but still ...

[Moonfish]

Bad kitty!




That's my wallet talking. This is kinda tempting. The library has a lot but still ...

Well worth it as it has a number of plays which are very hard to see/get otherwise as they are rarely performed. The actors are very good overall even though the sets can be rustic at times. Regardless, Shakepeare's words carry the day!  0:)

PS! You will need a region-free player!

[North Star]

I believe that Shakespeare's plays should be experienced...  Ideally in a live performance, but I must admit that subtitles help a great deal!
BBC actually recorded all of his plays. They vary in quality, but overall I was very pleased with BBC's efforts. I usually read a play after having "seen" it.

A great set:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shakespeare-Collection-DVD-Alan-Rickman/dp/B000B6F8V4

Well I'm not going to see Shakespeare in English in theatres here, even less in original pronunciation. But seeing the play/movie on screen is a definitely a fine experience. That doesn't replace being able to read the text, though.
That box is something I definitely would like.

[Papy Oli]

Hast thou read any text from that yonder time afore, Olivier? The complete works is a mighty tome indeed. I'm soon finishing RIII.

1st attempt to that kind of text as well, Karlo but i thought I should give Shakespeare a proper go, so went straight in with the complete works. For their price, these Barnes and Noble Leatherbound books are really neat. Also got the complete Holmes / Conan Doyle as well at the time. Definitely considering other volumes of writers I never read before (Poe, Dickens, HG Wells, Twain...at least not in original English versions for some of them).

Will skip on the DVD set for now though, Moonfish

[Jaakko Keskinen]

1st attempt at reading some Shakespeare. starting with Hamlet.

Hamlet is a good place to start, I for ex. did so

[Moonfish]

Will skip on the DVD set for now though, Moonfish

But...seeing is believing....   
Go Shakespeare!!!!

[Florestan]

Cervantes - Exemplary Novels

[Ken B]

Very good so far. Technical enough to be accurate but not a text book.
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It requires a little math. If you know what a complex number is, what a vector is, and what an expected value is that's enough.

Rereading this
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Ant it is pronounced taw-gallyant Al.

[Mookalafalas]

Ant it is pronounced taw-gallyant Al.

  I didn't know that.  I reread the Hornblower series a few years back.  Enjoyed it a lot.   Started 8 of Aubrey yesterday, but hope to stop soon. 

[rockerreds]

Doris Lessing- Stories

[Karl Henning]

A few days ago, I finished Oscar Levant's Memoirs of an Amnesiac, which towards the end becomes less an entertaining train-wreck, and more something one practically squirms to read.  The title is no mere amusing affectation, as he was a substance abuser, and (as he writes here) there is a year of his life, most of his awareness of which is no matter of what he can remember, but of what his wife recounts to him as having occurred.  So, yes, the first 80% (say) of the book is plausibly a rattling good time, if at times verging on the wild (and, without culpability, might simply be enjoyed);  but the wildness takes rather a disconcerting turn for the final chapters (the last chapter IIRC is titled "My Bed of Nails").

This "mind-messing-with" aspect, perhaps, may be why the book has not been made available as an e-book (or is it still under copyright, and thus the heirs/owners are chary of letting it all hang out afresh?)

[Karl Henning]

Your timing is extraordinary (unless you're at my shoulder, in which case, it's creepy):  I just lit on a book here on my shelf, which I had not thought about for (say) three years, and am thinking of starting to read it:

Prompted by the Snobbery thread, I've begun reading:

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[Karl Henning]

Prompted by the Snobbery thread, I've begun reading:

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This is good fun.

Also:  popcorn-munching reading

[Ken B]

This is good fun.

Also:  popcorn-munching reading

Pffft. Who can waste their time reading such books?

Think about it ...

[Karl Henning]

Pffft. Who can waste their time reading such books?

Think about it ...

Well played!

[Artem]

Two books that I finished recently by two authors that are new to me: