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littlestink, I reposted to add more questions, please vote again!)
Also, Chesterton and Ibsen are two of my favorite writers, and I am very much enjoying Shaw's
Quintessence of Ibsenism (which I have started carrying with me everywhere since it fits in all my purses, although I haven't read all of it because I haven't read all the plays mentioned in it, because I fell in love with HEDDA GABLER and read it at least six times and then I read
Hamlet twice to look for parallels, and by then the book I was reading was due back at the library!) prompted me to add it to my interests just now), but the only thing I have read by him (other than this book) is
Saint Joan, which I didn't care much for at all, so maybe I should re-read it? It seems like all roads lead to Mr. Shaw, when I went on a Henry James kick awhile back he was popping up even then, so maybe he's awesome and I just wasn't ready for him? I love
My Fair Lady, maybe the next thing I read should be
Pygmalion.
I think Ibsen is wonderful and I would probably never have been interested in feminism if it weren't for him (although I am still very new at all this stuff THANK YOU LJ FRIENDS FOR POINTING ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WITH THINGS TO READ NEXT and talking to me etc.). I had so much shit going on last year that I almost forgot that it was also the year that I fell in love with Ibsen.
There is art that has changed your life, right? Do you remember listening to that one album or reading that one book and not being able to get over it, and seeking out things based on it? Did you know the first time you experienced it that it was going to do all the things it wound up doing for you?
Poll #1164794 Rating my favorite authors
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AllRate Simone Weil, (5 if you think she's brilliant)
Rate Henrik Ibsen in the same fashion
Henry James?
Mr. Shaw himself
Guy de Maupassant
Oh fuck it, rate Shakespeare too
Hamlet - overrated? (Discuss in comments)
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