Waiting for Godot
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- ISBN13: 9780878910571
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I was forced to read this play by Samuel Beckett in school during my sophomore year! I absolutely despised it!! I thought that it was simply overanalyzed and overappreciated in the modern literature world! To be honest, the book is terribly written, confusing at times, too bizarre, and just utterly annoying! I don’t know why this existentialist novel is such a huge hit. I give it an extra star because we brought up some really appealing points on the novel in class (it does make you reflect at times). But, that point doesn’t change my opinion of the book and the leader who wrote it. NOTE TO TEACHERS: Please reflect carefully before assigning this book, as a replacement for consider additional existential works such as: The Weirder (by Albert Camus) or existential fleeting tales (by Camus, and others).
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS
* There is no structured plot, and the waiting business gets annoying.
* Vladimir and Estragon are two alienated bums who travel extensively, but are waiting for one Mr. Godot in a rural meadow in France. They encounter a weird duo, Lucky and Pozzo, and have a pointless rendezvous with them while they are waiting for Mr. Godot.
* There are a series of repeated actions to exenuate existential ideals.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Okay, I know that everyone likes Beckett, that he is an artist, more than he is a writer, but that’s the problem. He’s too absorbed in the proper aesthetic of ‘nothing’, or ‘ridiculousness’, that he doesn’t grant readers what they want: Character.
His entire approach (in his prose work) is derived from the last chapter in Joyce’s Ulysses, which isn’t nearly as remarkable as Faulkner, Gaddis, and Pynchon- who all took from Joyce and expounded, where as Beckett is only imitated.
It’s ancient news: The men waiting for Godot argue about nothing while waiting, and Godot never shows up. It’s suppose to be this grand metaphor for God(ot) (Get it?), that there isn’t an inherent one, and that the waiting is the only thing which ‘makes’ him.
I gave up in the middle because I got the joke already, it was so obvious. Beckett had a point to make, and wrote a stoy (play) at us, as a replacement for of for us.
If you want to conduct experiment with language, write a poem and get it over with, so you don’t waste additional reader’s time, as a replacement for of what Beckett did, which was bury himself in only what he’d like to reflect only he could know.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Ugh… I wrinkle my nose at the mear mention of the name “Godot”
Now i must take into mind that plays are ment to be seen and not read but still… waiting for Godot is just dreadful. Vladimir and Estregon are limp, barely live characters that a person could belive as readily as their daft adventures!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you thought reading books was fun,then you’ve never seen this dull book.This is a real tragedy,alright-the tragedy is the book was written and plublished.You wade through pages of having no effect drudgery,trying desperately to find ANYTHING exciting.You keep reading,hoping and praying it will get better.But no.It just keeps getting worse with every sentence.I finally gave an utter scream from frustration and set fire to this dud,mentally kicking myself for wasting money on it.If you want an actaul BOOK,read Charles Dickens or Mark Twain as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Some can and, indeed, many have swum chin-deep in their deconstructionist farm offal analyzing works from the fantastic literary canon of the West. No need to do that in this instance. First, WFG is hardly susceptible of analysis under any critical theory. Second, it’s not a literary work (hence the result cited in the preceding sentence). The perfect inability on the part of people who should know better to say the “Emperor has no clothes” is the only tragicomedy linked with this tiresome nonsense.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5