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Another book I read in 2010

Apr 01, 2011 21:50

This is one of the things I read in high school that just never left me. I would love to see a live performance of it.

Also, I just finished The Weird Sisters, and I absolutely can't wait to tell you how absolutely fabulous it was.

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silverflight8 April 2 2011, 02:20:53 UTC

This is rated YA? o.O

Have you seen the movie? :)

chantalzola April 2 2011, 02:43:21 UTC

I came here to say the same thing about YA...

im_writing April 2 2011, 04:05:16 UTC

Oops! I copy paste the format from my LJ and I forgot to change the genre. XD Silly me.

pandarus April 2 2011, 02:42:28 UTC

Genre = YA?

Um. Pretty sure Tom Stoppard would be staggered by that. The genre is drama, end of story - YA is a fairly recent invention of the US publishing industry, coined specifically as a marketing strategy, and it's in no way descriptive of this text. You might as usefully call 'Hamlet' or 'Pride and Prejudice' or 'Great Expectations' YA.

That pedantry aside; yes, RCAGAD is a cracking play. Tom Stoppard is a reliably excellent writer, whose texts repay rereading as you get older. His script for the movie 'Shakespeare in Love' is packed with the same kind of wit, very funny and accessible despite the in-jokes nestled all over the place to appeal to the Shakespeare geeks. Actually, in that he's a lot like Terry Pratchett - both of them are funny as hell, but also clever and humanistic and often profound, but they can still layer their texts in such a way that readers won't feel excluded or dim even if lots of things go over their heads.

If you haven't watched the film version, to which Stoppard added a couple of little touches ( ... )

im_writing April 2 2011, 04:14:46 UTC

Hahaha, I don't think that it's YA lit. I just copy/paste the format from my LJ and I just forgot to change the genre. XD Proofreading fail. (Though my YA lit professor might argue with you about the market strategy thing.)

And I have seen the film. We watched it in High School. It was part of what made me fall so in love with the play. :D

atcharr April 2 2011, 05:26:41 UTC

I adore this play. I've often thought about getting a "I've frequently not been on boats" tattoo, that is how I love this play.

to be sure newwaytowrite April 2 2011, 05:48:52 UTC

Have you seen the R&G Are Dead in film format? It is one of the few films I actually wanted in my library.