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the importance of being earnest — oscar wilde

3 stars

A very uncom­pli­cated and amus­ing play. This play has every­thing a good clas­sic play should have: char­ac­ters with secrets, a sit­u­a­tion that starts easy but spins out of con­trol in no time, love inter­ests, con­fu­sion of tongues, lit­tle fights, a moral and a happy ending.

The char­ac­ters with secrets are John/Jack and Alger­non. The love inter­ests are Lane and Cecily. The sit­u­a­tion is John want­ing to marry Cecily, but she only wants to marry an Earnest. The con­fu­sion is in all the names the char­ac­ters have. The fight is between Alger­non and John. The moral is: be your­self and truth­ful and the happy ending…well, I think I don’t have to say any­thing about that.

this is a pre­view of the impor­tance of being earnest — oscar wilde. read the full post (129 words & 1 image, esti­mated 31 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 17:19 | by eb | posted in classics, humor, into movies, plays | tagged , , , , | 913 views comments (0)

i capture the castle — dodie smith

3 stars

A nice lit­tle story told in jour­nal form. Cas­san­dra is the one who is telling the story about her life and love(s).

She lives in a cas­tle where also live: her strange father, step­mother Topaz, sis­ter Rose, brother Thomas and help Stephen. When the fam­ily of which they rent the cas­tle, comes to Eng­land (from the USA) the story really sets of. Two young men, Simon and Neil, belong to that fam­ily and steal the harts of Rose and Cas­san­dra with whom Stephen is hope­lessly in love.

this is a pre­view of i cap­ture the cas­tle — dodie smith. read the full post (123 words & 1 image, esti­mated 30 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 16:23 | by eb | posted in children, into movies, romance | tagged , , , | 591 views comments (0)

the heart is a lonely hunter — carson mccullers

2 stars

this is a pre­view of the heart is a lonely hunter — car­son mccullers. read the full post (297 words & 1 image, esti­mated 1:11 mins read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 16:17 | by eb | posted in don't bother, general fiction, into movies | tagged , , , | 588 views comments (0)

fever pitch — nick hornby

3 stars

Although the book is about foot­ball, foot­ball and foot­ball Hornby’s style of writ­ing drew me to the book repeat­edly. With his choice of words, his dis­tinc­tive (Eng­lish) humor he gets to me every time.

At times he is really funny, but at other times he can be seri­ous about things hap­pen­ing in the (soccer-)world, like dis­crim­i­na­tion of play­ers and deaths as a result of van­dal­ism. This makes the book more than just an easy trib­ute to the game.

I enjoyed myself read­ing it.

this is a pre­view of fever pitch — nick hornby. read the full post (89 words & 1 image, esti­mated 21 secs read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 16:12 | by eb | posted in humor, into movies | tagged , , | 574 views comments (0)