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Erika (17788 KP) rated My Lady Jane in Books

Nov 19, 2017  
My Lady Jane
My Lady Jane
Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Young Adult (YA)
9
7.4 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
I wasn't expecting to like this book at all. I chose it on the fly to listen to as an audiobook. I was not disappointed. It was completely humorous. The novel rotated through three points of view, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, and Gifford Dudley. It definitely borrowed from the likes of the Princess Bride, Shakespeare, and Monty Python. There were some irritating parts, like when it quoted too much from those sources. In the end, I did really like it.
  
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Caitlin Ann Cherniak (85 KP) rated Sold in Books

Oct 21, 2018  
Sold
Sold
Patricia McCormick | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Young Adult (YA)
9
7.3 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
I almost couldn't finish this book, not that it wasn't good. It's a masterpiece, but the topic that McCormick tackles gave me complete shudders, and I swore that I was about to puke at times. The things that happen to these girls because people are greedy, selfish, and cruel. If this book from 2006 is still not relevant today, I don't know what would be. That would be the same thing as saying that Shakespeare meant nothing to the world.
  
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Dick Cavett recommended Children of Paradise (1945) in Movies (curated)

 
Children of Paradise (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
1945 |
(0 Ratings)
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"The brilliant teacher I had for a Shakespeare seminar at Yale (Joel Dorius) asked us one day if we had an idea of what heaven, for us, would consist of. What you’d hope it would be. His own answer: “Just to sit in a screening room, watching Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise projected repeatedly and endlessly throughout eternity.” Hard to argue with that when you see and resee this classic. Dorius’s version of heaven beats hell out of harps and angels."

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Simulating War: Studying conflict through simulation games in Books

Jun 16, 2024  
Simulating War: Studying conflict through simulation games
Simulating War: Studying conflict through simulation games
Philip Sabin | 2012
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Well, that was something ... different.

This, essentially, is a scholarly thesis on the use of wargaming in an educational setting - like another reader, I found the first part (about the theory) interesting, the second part - containing example games - less so (perhaps because of my lack of real interest in anything beyond WW1 in the air).

Like being forced to study Shakespeare in school, I found this to somewhat suck the fun out of the activity in question.

Still, YMMV, as the saying goes ...
  
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Becs (244 KP) rated The Merchant of Venice in Books

Jan 2, 2020  
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
Leah S. Marcus, William Shakespeare | 2006 | Film & TV
8
8.0 (8 Ratings)
Book Rating
I love William Shakespeare and every one of his plays but The Merchant of Venice was a difficult play for me to get into. I felt like the plot was all over the place but I pushed through it to finish the book. It had its good scenes and its bad ones, most books and plays do.

Would I reread The Merchant of Venice again, probably not.

Is it a good play, it's definitely worth the read because of it being a literary classic.