So far I've read The Glass Menagerie, A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and most recently A Streetcar Named Desire.
Anyone else read plays by Tennessee Williams?
So far I've read The Glass Menagerie, A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and most recently A Streetcar Named Desire.
Anyone else read plays by Tennessee Williams?
@dboyrules2011: Tennessee Williams an amazing playwright :(
@ccraft: Still don't know who he is. Sorry. :p
@ccraft: Check your PMs.
@ccraft: So true. Or, is it?
@ccraft: Streetcar Named Desire. Book and movie. I am presently bawling my eyes out, thank you very much.
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Read it, and watched it. That should be next on your list, unless you have already?
@ms-lola: idk why but I'm not getting notifications anymore :/
I haven't seen any movies yet. What did you think of Glass Menagerie? The sister in the story reminded me a lot of my sister. I had a lot of personal connection from that book.
And the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, reminds me of how my father and I aren't very close, stuff like that.
@judasnixon: What in the blue hell was that?...
@ccraft: (I didn't get this notification, either.)
I enjoyed both books in the context they were presented in, but I try to not judge characters in environments which contain elements out of their control. My heart can break and I hate that because I think there's enough out there in real life to break a person down than to look for suffering in fiction. I prefer my tears be for real people, things and situations. Just as pointless and unproductive, but at least I can fool myself into thinking I can help in some way.
Now, as for your sister and father, I think it's cool you can draw a connection to both through literature. If it helps you gain better insight towards both, that's even more awesome.
@ms-lola: That's true, but I think when reading a book, or watching a movie the characters become real in our imaginations. And thats why we feel strongly when we see something sad or have a personal connection with a book.
It does, when you see the negative outcomes in the book it makes you want to try and prevent that in your own life.
@ccraft: I don't disagree with you, and if you learn something that helps prevent a negative outcome in your own life, that's great. I just think life isn't that easy. A negative outcome is usually a hindsight discovery, outside of obvious life choices like drugs, alcohol abuse, etc.
@ccraft: (hugs)
@dagmar_merrill: They're still books, not really a big difference.
@dngn4774: I said I'll going to hug your mom, gawd...
@ccraft: In a bit of a different format, if they're plays would they not be written as plays?
@dagmar_merrill: Still aren't really that different from other books, with plays you get a lot of speech from characters. Usually at the beginning the author describes the set of the play and the characters, then it progresses to the story. Have you read a play? If so what don't you like about them?
@ccraft: A couple of Shakespeare's and I just didn't like it.
@dagmar_merrill: What did you not like about it? The way it was written?
@ccraft: I read Julius Caesar ( I really liked that) and romeo and julet (which I hated) and I guess something just gave me a bad and impression becaus for life of me I couldn't explain myself I just remember disliking reading them. Maybe I will give them another shot
@dagmar_merrill: I'm just assuming here, but maybe you were forced to read plays (R&J) in high school, and a distaste of plays grew from that. I used to hate reading in school, but now I love it.
I would recommend A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by TW, I think that has a little of something everyone would enjoy, and it's one of his very best works. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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