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NOVECENTO, Un Monologo
Alessandro Baricco
Feltrinelli, 1998
Baricco is back to Ocean and Music
+ impressions and languages
+ Wonderful tale: proprio meraviglioso
Novecento contains all the originality of baricco, enhancing his sense of humor and creating an unforgettable character. Born on a ship, pianist Novecento is the typical man on the 1900s literature: unlike the 1800s literary traveler, Novecento loves his ship and is afraid of leaving it. but his ...
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The Legend of 1900
Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Image Entertainment, 2002
Legend of 1900
+ The Legend of 1900
Caught part of this on TV and couldn't stop watching. Had to have it. Mostly dramatic with a little humor. Tim Roth is awesome as always. Good quality dvd.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
Grove Press, 1994
Brilliant.
+ Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead
No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are Dead hysterically funny and/or wonderfully ingenious, they have probably missed Stoppard's point in this play.
This play was during the age known as Theatre of the Absurd, when ridiculous plots and ...
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel
Rainer Maria Rilke
Vintage, 1990
An intellectual goldmine...
+ great, beautiful, but patchy
+ Nausea, in a good way
+ Book from my young adulthood
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Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2003
If you want to read Shakespeare its has to be The new folger Library
+ Greatness
+ Review
If you ever thought about reading Shakespeare but was turned off or intimidated by the old english, not so with the new folger editions. Your basically reading the play on all the right sided pages , with the left pages reserved for all the definitions and explanations of the sayings and words that ...
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Hamlet
Richard Attenborough, David Blair
Turner Home Ent, 2000
The most brilliant version of Hamlet ever produced
+ Good, but not great Dane
+ Shakespeare the way it was meant to be exeperienced
+ Branagh
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Henry V
Brian Blessed, Richard Briers
MGM (Video & DVD), 2000
...shall think themselves accurs'd they did not watch (this DVD)
+ Excellent !!!
+ An enduring Masterpiece by a genius director and actor
+ Best Henry V Ever!
+ A Masterpiece
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The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
+ Could include more light-hearted poems
+ Could include more light-hearted poems
Thus is a useful collection of longer poems for those in search of longer poems which are not generally found in anthologies.
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Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada. Cien sonetos de amor. (Debolsillo)
Pablo Neruda
Plaza y Janes, 2002
la palabra de amor
+ "Tal vez tú no sabías, araucana...
+ Un Poeta con mayúscula
+ Moving/Conmovedor!
+ A must read.
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Becket (Letterboxed Edition)
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole
Mpi Home Video, 1994
Dramatic History at its Best
+ Peter O'Toole
+ Excellent!
+ Top-notch period drama with great cast
+ Great Movie Making - Excellent Theme
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
This book is fantastic!
+ Quotable wisdom for the ages
+ Great condition, lame translation
+ Great, impassioned advice
+ Letters to a Young Poet
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Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot
Harvest Books, 1964
Thomas Beckett as martyr philosopher; Shakespearean genius
+ The Murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury
+ Haunting!
+ "Blood for blood."
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Poesias Completas de Federico Garcia Lorca (no)
Federico Garcia Lorca, Editores Mexicanos Unidos
Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A., 1999
Lorca in full
A great book for anyone into Spanish poetry, especially Garcia Lorca's. The poems are on pages with enough room to make notations (as all writers probably do) and his surprisingly compact for all its content (650+ pages). A must read! I'm thrilled to see amazon embracing the Spanish Language. ...
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Hamlet - Criterion Collection
Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing
Criterion, 2000
The greatest Hamlet
+ A masterpiece played by a genius actor
+ Little Hamlet, Happy at Last!
+ Essential cinema: Olivier's 'Hamlet.'
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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
Ian Gibson
Pantheon, 1997
Gibson tells you about Lorca and all that surrounded him.
+ The best biography of a Spanish poet
+ Incredibly well researched.
+ a complete view of Garcia Lorca's life
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