Reviewed Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Sep 02, 2003 01:12 AM
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The thing to remember about Virginia first of all is the correct spelling of her name - Woolf, not Wolf.
Like the great Romantic poets or Van Gogh, or Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf was not looking over her shoulder to decide how and what she ought to write. Her writing (I wish to write abou...Read more
Commented on cpearl's review
May 11, 2003 03:36 AM
This is without doubt the best review i have read by cpearl. we live in a postmodernist world where image is everything, 'image over substance' which is the essence of this magazine(an many more, of course).
I take issue with just one of her perceptive observations; she suggests that the magazine ...is for'rebellious women'. I suggest that it is for women who do not have the courage to be rebellious, who in a masturbatory, autoerotic manner can only find their adventure or excitement by reading about it.
Cpearl is beginning to deconstruct her chosen texts, with pleasing results.Read More
Commented on nikki_leeds's review
Mar 30, 2003 11:27 PM
Good Will hunting is Hollywood at its best, and Nikki Leeds has shown us a nice review of the story.
However, I should have enjoyed a note concerning what the director was trying to tell us about middle-class America. What did the director want us to think about as we drove home?
There is, witho...ut any doubt, a message concerning intelligent youngsters who are tallented but unable to afford a good education - the difference between the middle classes and the working classes, or as the Americans would say, 'white collar workers and blue collar workers'.
I enjoyed Nikki's review and agreed with every word, but thought she should have delved deeper into the message that was presented to us, the viewers.
As I said before, however . I agreed with every word she said.Read More
Reviewed Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Mar 30, 2003 05:44 AM
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Shakespeare's most memorable and universal character grew up to become King of Denmark. Even when his father dies and his uncle seizes the throne, he is still named as heir to the nation. However, he meets the ghost of his father and is told that his uncle has murdered his father then married hi...Read more
Reviewed Toyota Camry V3 / V1
Mar 26, 2003 04:42 AM
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I just bought my second Camry. The first cost me £2500 five years ago. Five years of trouble-free motoring made me search for another recently. However finding a used Camry is not easy as the owners are loath to get rid of them. During my search a dealer told me that if he had five on the f...Read more
Reviewed Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Mar 25, 2003 05:23 AM
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Mary Shelley wrote her novel in an age of tremendous scientific doubts, changes and experimentation. With the arrival of the theory of evolution 1600 years of certainty almost vanished in the Western world. Man was questioning the very existence of God. Great things were expected of the scientif...Read more
Commented on cpearl's review
Mar 24, 2003 10:52 PM
Although Toni Morrison has written a novel about what has happened in hte past, her novel is more to do with where the Black race is going now. Denver represents the new generation, born in freedom. Is this new generation going to step out without bitterness and bile free of the past, or hold on to ...the old attitudes and fears.
cpearl's review was excellent as a precis but I would have liked to read more of cpearl's loves and hates in itRead More
