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fifteenth-entity

2 years ago

Following the great example you set, I will also be sending a variety of books (and a play).

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Ulysses, James Joyce

Maurice, E. M. Foster

Orlando, Virginia Woolf

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

listen, i want to answer this ask so bad but it has deleted itself twice now. THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM.

this is gonna be VERY awkward because i know... approximately 2 books from this list? buut i’m willing to put my research in like a good samaritan.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray

I AM SO EXCITED TO READ THIS BOOK, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. this book has been on my tbr for a hot minute but like... i can never justify the purchase to myself? like, every time i go to the bookstore with the goal of buying frankenstein, dr jekyll and mr hyde, and the picture of dorian gray, but every single time, a ya novel catches my eye and i dive for it like a raven spotting a shiny on a woman adorned with accessories. i cannot possibly hovel up to the cash register holding to kill a kingdom, lunar chronicles part 2, and the picture of dorian gray. like i dont want to do that to mr. wilde OR mr. gray. will the cashier judge me? most likely not! but you know who will? I will judge myself. but i swear on everything, i WILL read this book some day, I’ll actually have it in my hands with the receipt probably tossed in my pocket, i swear it.

2. Ulysses

the “what book is this” saga begins here. I don’t... understand?? what this is about?? but like... more than a little intrigued. imma need you or ana to put me on this book, but i read “celtic culture” and alarm bells went off. to say i’m enticed i think is fair.

3. Maurice

Let me take you on the same rollercoaster I was put on when i looked up this book. “this has to be like... i dont know, some sort of depraved victorian romance. is maurice even a girl’s name? im too afraid to ask. OH. OH IT’S GAY. OH MY GOD THIS IS GAY.” SORRY ULYSSES, THIS ONE TAKES PRIORITY. and it’s short too?? i need this in my hands like, yesterday.

4. Orlando

hm! hm hm hm. ive read tons about this book, and i do want to read some eventual woolfe in my life time. i dont have many thoughts on this? i wanna know more about it first.

5. Macbeth

OHKAY. This is some serious cheating im about to do, BUT this book deserves a story time. so i was in my sweet 16s when i went to watch the macbeth play in like... the one big theater in greece, right? and my only previous experience with shakespeare was reading a midsummer night’s dream for school, playing the part of a nursemaid to juliet for romeo and juliet, and just freshly having watched hamlet with a less than stellar experience. (like all i know is that hamlet is gay, killed some guy, and argues with the spirit of his dad. he drank a pina colada on a beach chair at his dad’s funeral tho? kinda mood of him) so when i went to watch macbeth, my expectations were in hell. so zouboulia from para pente appears on stage, and immediately, i know im gonna have the time of my life. and despite the fact that this government protected PEDOPHILE was on stage playing the coward macbeth himself, I HAD A BLAST. my mom was sitting next to her 16 year old son, who was enjoying these two peoples’ dive into turmoil and the depicted bloodshed caused by it a little too much. Lady macbeth can step on me, i’ll be her carpet. i don’t care about any other shakespeare book (ok that’s a lie titus andronicus i apologize) other than macbeth. i REALLY want to read this. did i have a blast? yeah. will i have a blast again? yeah.

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