Here's the problem with setting a goal to read every book on some list. You'll inevitably end up reading some book you know you're going to hate. This play is a great case in point. In my Modern English Literature (English as in from England and her former colonies) class we had to read a bunch of stuff by Samuel Beckett because my teacher was in love with him. It was then that I discovered that I really REALLY don't love experimental/modernist theater. I like my plays to have a story-line that involves action and something actually happening. Samuel Beckett's plays are hopeless and--to me at least--completely pointless.
His characters repeat their lives day after day and they're always in some post-apocolyptical situation where the world as we know it has ended and life is awful. I'm sorry, but I just don't ever see life getting that bad.
So anyways, moral of the story is: Unless you really like modern/experimental drama, don't read Samuel Beckett...
1 comment:
Blasphemy! I loved waiting for Godot! Was this the first time you read it? Because I did not like it the first time I read it, But it was WAY awesome the second time I read it. Just a suggestion. :)
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