Per Juan Cole, the three most popular selections in the Guantanamo Bay prison library are:
1. The Harry Potter novels
2. Cervantes’ Don Quixote
3. Barack obama’s Dreams from my Father
Shakespeare gets no respect.
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Per Juan Cole, the three most popular selections in the Guantanamo Bay prison library are:
1. The Harry Potter novels
2. Cervantes’ Don Quixote
3. Barack obama’s Dreams from my Father
Shakespeare gets no respect.
Apparently Shakespeare is hard to read. I know this because a patent lawyer at a firm I used to work at told me so. It would never have occurred to me (I found the patent briefs hard to read, though, and difficult to type…).
Okay, he’s not EASY, certainly not compared to Harry Potter or Barack Obama’s writing. Shakespeare is better to watch than read, and we still miss half the jokes because they’re just a tad dated… 🙂
I find it easier to read his plays. I enjoyed watching them when I was a twenty-something, but now Elizabethan English sounds like a foreign language. I keep hoping for an interpreter. It’s like a native Spanish speaker listening to Classical Latin.
who created a lot of sound and fury while getting very little done.
The inmates would have been better off with Shakespeare.
given the hogwash chimpy™ probably offered, hogwarts is likely a welcome relief. [porcine references aside].
Shakespeare would be good, especially the tragedies, tho nietzsche might be more apropos.
Kafka’s The Trial would be on my list.
most definitely, with a bullet, as they say in the biz.
that occurred to me after l posted.
Shakespeare? Are Muslims even allowed to read Klingon?
I’ve never read Cervantes or Rowling, but Dreams From My Father is an absolutely remarkable book. I think it’s pretty neat that that’s what they want to read.