Originally Posted by Anthony Darkyn

I've seen an updated version of one of his plays... I can't remember which it was, sadly, but it was totally set in a little bubble-gum shoppe with the poodle skirts and all. It was awesome.

That's an interesting take on it, usually when they do a 'modern' version of a Shakespeare play, it's very dark and they put people in SS uniforms or something. ._.

Just about to update my list, and am in the middle of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (It was just too cute to resist.)

Anthony- For fun. I'm kind of lame like that. XD

Reeny- I really love Romeo and Juliet, I think i have to go with that as my favorite. In part because I just have SUCH a soft spot for Tybalt. In like 9th grade I wrote a Romeo and Juliet fanfiction about a girl who was in love with Tybalt. :lol: I went back through the play and pulled a family from the invitation to the Capulet party and totally built a story around them. It was such fun.

I do really want to read King Lear, though. Cordelia is my favorite teacher's ultimate favorite strong Shakespearian female. I do love that Shakespeare wrote such strong women myself, just not that they ALL had to be married, engaged, dead, whatever, because no woman is to be left on her own by the end of the play! I know that's how it was in the time, but still. That and the fact that the wicked women's evilness usually comes from their sex somehow. Still, though: definitely appriciate the brave and nonpassive Shakspeare ladies!

I've seen a couple Shakespeare plays, and totally need to see more! I've seen three versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream (school play, professional play, and a ballet), As You Like It, and I'm seeing my school's production of Twelfth Night sometime in December. And then I saw the 1960's movie version of Romeo and Juliet, but that's HARDLY the same expirience as seeing it live.

The school productions of Shakespeare plays always try to modernize it to an extent. They did A Midsummer Nights Dream in modern Atlanta, Georgia, a fair few years back they did Romeo and Juliet in Harlem, and I think they're doing Twelfth Night set in the 1950's.

Kat- I NEED that. Like, need. I must find it!

Guivre- Do you like it? I liked it myself, but stopped about half way through. "Haha, ninjas, zombies..." only carried it so far for me. :(

Iltu: Unfortunately, I too have seen very few live, well, on stage. I did see Merchant of Venice, and it was set in the 70s. I like when they modernize them ... it really shows that the stories are pretty timeless. (And it helps tell the story so you don't get too boggled down with the language.)

Have you seen the Romeo and Juliet from 1996? I know, I know ... but it was actually pretty good. And had a kickin' soundtrack! I recommend it.

Reeny- I wish I had the means to go more often, because I love the life being breathed into the characters. They're real enough in my head when I read, but it's so much more intimate to see them on stage, like you're just watching their story happen right then.

I have not, mostly because I'm afriad to. XD I've heard it's really good, it's just that for some reason, I'm nervous about it.
We're watching the Othello movie in English right now, with Samuel L. Jackson... DON'T WATCH IT. I love him, and I love the play, but the movie just... it ended up turning out badly, somehow. o_o

So I just updated my list today- I'm at 49 books :shock:

Congrats, Siaa! Almost there! :D

Thanks :)

I had no idea I read that much - I have 2 books going at once right now too :XD

Sounds like you'll go beyond your goal, then. :)

Iltu: Well ... kinda go in with low expectations and then don't worry about it. Sure, you may cringe at something, dunno, but I think you will like it. ^_^

Macbeth on the Estate (youtube). I don't think it's ever been released on video/DVD. We watched it at school from a video that a teacher had recorded from TV that somebody had converted to DVD after it started getting worn out. ^^;

Reeny- I've thought I might, but I don't much like watching movies anyway. So when there's a movie I'm not sure I really want to watch, it almost NEVER gets watched. XD

Kat- Thank-you! I'll have to hurry and read Macbeth so I can watch it with a full appriciation. I've got it sitting on my bookshelf, so perhaps I'll be able to start it tommorow, assuming I can finish Othello and Nine Gates today. ^^

@Iltu -- about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I liked it (not loved but liked) until the ninjas popped up. Then it suddenly got less fun. I still think the book has some fun lines in it, though. It's not that I don't love ninjas, it's just that I don't think they do anything for the book.

Like usual, I picked up another book that I'd rather be reading, but I will finish it anyway. I found a biography of Edward Gorey, I think it's about time to revisit his work. =D

I never liked Shakespeare o-0; I've only read Romeo and Juliet so my knowledge is limited. I liked the story but I didn't enjoy reading it. I always thought it'd be neat if somebody rewrote it in story form over script with the same exact story (not modernizing it).
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is so weird. I was skimming through it at the bookstore and I just went 'wow'. They have one of those books with Seamonsters now as well o.0;

Beliar: As I mentioned before, Shakespeare is truly meant to be seen -- most of what he wrote were plays, after all! And, I think, when most people talk about the modernization nowadays, it's more the setting and costumes, than the language. I have not ever seen one, personally, where the language has been tweaked. You should give it a try sometime. It may surprise you. ^_^

I actually like the idea of Sense and Sensibility with Sea Monsters better, because the one thing I remember from the book and movie (read/saw it so long ago) is the setting, lol. A seaside cottage is generally idyllic and inspiring.

Oh, those rewrites of Jane Austen....I love those. X3
Beliar: Romeo and Juliet is the worst Shakespeare play. It's so....ew. I love Hamlet, though. ^w^

Ah, this is wonderful! I've actually just acquired a taste for reading. Before, I wouldn't be able to focus for long enough to get a page into it but now I find it really calming and I great form of escapism.

Do graphic novels count as a book for each volume? Because I just started the Transmetropolitan series and I am thinking of reading V for Vendetta and Watchmen as well.

Since the beginning of October, I've read:
- William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street
- Fear and Loathing Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Zone by Marcel Dubé
- Les vacances du Petit Nicolas by Sempe

You can count books however you want. If you consider each individual comic book as an item on your list, then you can count it. It's entirely up to you. :P
It's great that you've gotten into reading. It's a wonderful hobby, and both the V for Vendetta series and Watchmen are great comics. :P I've read them both.

@Treefingers- If you enjoyed Fear and loathing in Lsa Vegas, check out The Great Shark Hunt and The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson. There are also other Fear And Loathing books that he wrote. I enjoyed Fear and Loathing in America.

Transmetropolitan is a good read too if you're not too easily squicked. XD

Reeny: Thats true about them being meant to watched. I don't know though, I guess I'd have to try it out. Maybe it'd change my mind as you suggest.
Bishie: I've heard of Hamlet but I've never read/watched it.

Beliar: Though I suggest an actual Play over a Movie any time. ^_^

Yeah, I think the movies distract you from the wordplay. D= Unless they're extremely stripped down.

So right now, I'm reading Macbeth and Thorn Queen, and I'm rereading Kabul Beauty School. I forgot how much I LOVED that book! I definitely reccomend it to anyone who enjoys memoirs, beautiful writing, or spunky and spirited narrators.

...My school is having dress up as a novel character day tommorw and it's HARD. :gonk: I think I might go as Morguase from The Once and Future King, or Lady Macbeth, or Shona from The Darklord of Derkholm, or Elise Archer from the Firekeeper saga, or find someone from the Breaking the Wall series that I can be, but choosing is difficult! :c

@Iltu: Thorn Queen!!! She needs to become superhuman and write faster (magically). I want all her series to come out with another book, like tomorrow. XD

So I finally went out and got Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. The cover is so pretty and steam punk(ey).