Classics

Under Milk Wood - It's a play for voices boyo

Advantages: Fantastic words that are wonderful read or listened to.
Disadvantages: None for me

...this little Welsh village situated under Milk Wood. There is no plot to the play just a whole host of wonderful characters who tell their stories as they dream . From Captain Cat - the old blind sea captain who dreams of his long dead sailor friends, to Mr. Willy Nilly - the postman, who even in his sleep thinks that he is delivering the post, and every night knocks on his poor wife Mrs. Willy Nilly, as if she were the door; - because of this she ...
...own personaliies and foibles. Under Milk Wood is such a joy to read; you can feel the joy, attention and love that Thomas put into the incredible words. Every description leaps out of the pages, Thomas's use of words draws us a picture of those wonderful people, their houses and the landscape.We are with them before they wake, we travel with them through their days activities and we watch as they go to sleep again - at the end of the play we know ...

oldchem 30.05.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas

Had low expectations but great results

Advantages: Great story that offers so much to the reader that they won't want to stop until it's over
Disadvantages: May miss parts of the audio and story

...out passages. When assigned Great Expectations these were the ideas that were conjured up in my mind and I tried so hard to avoid reading the book so I figured listening to it would be better. As soon as I heard the first chapter though I was hooked. The story begins with the excitement of the main character Pip meeting a convict, while in a graveyard visiting his parents graves. The convict takes everything Pip has and asks where his mother is, ...
...to be a happy ending. Great Expectations is so many things, a fake biography, a fairy tale, or a mystery story, which could entice any reader. And those wishing to read "the classics" or even a little Dickens should look to Great Expectations first. This classic is a great addition to any book shelf and to listen to someone else read it almost makes the story seem that more real. The only problem I had was that as I stopped to think about the great ...

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Review of Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

A whirl of description through the eyes of charlotte bronte

Advantages: Amazing story line and plot
Disadvantages: none

...other novels, after this, by Jane Austen but i found that the lack of description in her books left me wanting Jane Eyre again. I would definatly recomend this book to anyone who enjoys a great romance novel. I found this book to be like a biography in parts but i think that added to it's greatness for me. As soon as you start reading this book you know exactly what is going on and it takes you into a world that excisted long ago. i love the feel ...
...the tangled love story between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester is the most exciting love story in any book and the fact that she runs away gives you the impression that is the end of their time. however, i got very excited when i realised there were more pages left than needs be if it didn't work out between them and so i was totally engrosed towards the end of the book . this is what makes Jane Eyre, to me, the best classic book out there. Read it, ...

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Review of Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Picture of Dorian Gray - A must for your collection

Advantages: Short story, wonderfully written and a story which is impossible to leave once begun.
Disadvantages: I can think of no disadvantages on owning this book.

I was engulfed from the start. Oscar Wilde has such an enchanting way of writing that is simple to comprehend, flowery in words, colourful in imagination and seamless in chapters. I could not put this book down. The story of a young man in the socially aware and decadent late 19 Century who is awakened to his own physical beauty and is led to a path of self destruction fuelled by his insatiable appetite for all that is exquisite, all that is beautiful, ...
...only by his looks. The story of a young man who steadily slides into depravity and late night shadows in his quest to devour all life experiences while desperately clinging onto the daytime sham of respectability. The book wonderfully encapsulates a warning to those who possess an aptitude for social gluttony and a disrespect for any repercussion which may ensue in their lust to pursue it. The literature reminds me of a splendid velvet cape adorned ...

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Review of The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

"Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a d

Advantages: A wonderful, wonderful book.
Disadvantages: Can take a little getting in to

...it was for me with Wuthering Heights - I had not yet seen the 1939 film starring Laurence Olivier, so all I had to visualise he charaters and settings were the wonderful words from Emily Bronte. Incredibly this dazzling, iconic novel published in1847 (under the pseudonym Ellis Bell) was the only book written by Emily Bronte. How tragic that she was taken only a year later, suffering from consumption - what more masterpieces could have been written? ...
...of those moors. Wuthering Heights is a powerful story about love and hate and sorrow and death. It takes place over a period of thirty years and is all narrated by firstly Mr. Lockwood, and mainly by Ellen 'Nellie' Dean, the faithful housekeeper. The book starts as Mr Lockwood has rented Thrushcross Grange on the Yorkshire Moors. His landlord - Mr Heathcliff - lives in a remote farmhouse called "Wuthering Heights". Lockwood finds Heathcliff and all ...

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Review of Wuthering heights - Emily Bronte