alliecalls's review against another edition
3.0
"You'll learn to be a liar and a bully and a braggart and a coward and a sneak. You'll learn to fear the sunlight and to hate beauty."
ddanahs's review against another edition
4.0
If this was a novel, it wouldn't get a 4. It is not my normal fantasy genre read or a classic novel, both of which I evaluate a bit differently. This is a play. And I'm not at all used to reading plays. You could even say that I never read a play for pleasure. I love going to the theatre, yes, but plays were never something I would consider worth reading for pleasure because they are meant to be performed. Just like you wouldn't just read a film script. Those plays, which I read for high-school weren't good (yep, controversial opinion, I don't really love Shakespeare's Othello, and Romeo and Juliet) and now, plays I read for university are ranging from not good to decent (Desire Under the Elms being the bad one, Long day's journey into the night being the decent one).
This one, however, is the best play I've probably ever read. And that's not because I was listening to the audiobook so it took much shorter, I found it genuinely good.
The main thing is probably that the comedy was perfectly mixed in with the seriousness of it all, it talked about death and the afterlife and it was written in an engaging, digestible language.
And my favorite moment - the surprise when the policemen came into the Zeros' house and Mr. Zero, out of nowhere, admitted to murder? That line made my mouth open wide and stare at my screen for a good five minutes. Brilliant.
This one, however, is the best play I've probably ever read. And that's not because I was listening to the audiobook so it took much shorter, I found it genuinely good.
The main thing is probably that the comedy was perfectly mixed in with the seriousness of it all, it talked about death and the afterlife and it was written in an engaging, digestible language.
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And my favorite moment - the surprise when the policemen came into the Zeros' house and Mr. Zero, out of nowhere, admitted to murder? That line made my mouth open wide and stare at my screen for a good five minutes. Brilliant.
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