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Is Hamlet the best piece of literature you've ever read? If not which is, please do tell us if you haven't read Hamlet, I must ask: is there something wrong with ya?
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alas, poor yorick, what the hell happened to the rest of him? | |
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I do love Hamlet, but I prefer King Lear. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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I've never read or seen it. My favorite pieces of literature are from the Spanish language (although I read them in Dutch):
Don Quijote by Cervantes A Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez [Edited 4/16/15 0:24am] | |
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Nope. Middlemarch by George Eliot. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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My fav pieces are: - Gabriel Gracia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera -Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises [Edited 4/16/15 9:24am] | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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"To Be... Or Not To Be Is There Something Wrong With Me?" | |
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Naa. Never liked Shakespear. | |
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When it comes to literature I just can't make a best of. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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One of my favorite quotes from Shakespeare:
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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lazycrockett, mentioned it's hard to pick the best... | |
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The last pages of Middlemarch always put a lump in my throat.Always wondered what my American cousins thought of our Speareshake...is he well received over there? Personal faces, Bram Stoker - Dracula and Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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hamlet's among the best, in my opinion. not THE best. |
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funny, cuz I like just the opposite; I'm more into people (fictional or not) who were born with many privileges or gifts (money, beauty, connected family, etc) but still rebelled against the system (because they thought of it as unfair) or just faced a lot of HUGE problems because of their privileged position (not that privileged when you think about it), like Hamlet, Elizabeth I, Aragorn, Julius Caesar, Jean Valjean, etc... | |
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The best novel I've read is by Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the | |
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maybe i'll read through Shakespear as an adult. I have his complete works in one anthology but i've only read Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet as a high school student. But as an adult, I think Crime and Punishment by Doestoesovsky (spelling?) outranks Shakespear for me right now | |
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