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Title: The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill ISBN: 0-375-70917-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (16 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: HORRIBLE PIECE OF NONSENSE
Comment: This may very well be the worst creation of man. Do yourself a favor and buy the new Limp Bizkit album instead.
Rating: 2
Summary: pessimism vs genius
Comment: There's a tendency, particularly among 20th Century males to confuse pessimism with genius. And then we self-consciously award him a Pulitzer prize or two so the Europeans will think we're as insightful and negative as they are... It seems to me that it doesn't take genius to observe that we kill and eat or we die -- that life necessarily involves pain and suffering. The average 4-year-old can see that. Genius, it seems to me, involves moving past the recognition of suffering to an affirmation of life, a willingness to participate wholeheartedly in spite of it all... not by lying to yourself nor by simply putting a good face on it, but by way of seeing through to the Ground that lies beyond mere suffering and illusion, to the Ground from which all genuine vitality springs. A good Disney cartoon is closer to genius than this. And it's not that I dislike all pessimistic works -- I love Hamlet, for example.
So all dreams are pipe-dreams. Yet we must cling to our lies lest we go mad. That position, as far as I'm concerned, is itself madness. True sanity is completely happy. I agree rather with Roald Dahl's James of Giant Peach fame, that all good things start with a dream. I agree with Thoreau that we SHOULD build our castles in the air, and only then can we put the foundations under them. Losing heart is part of the process. It's human and completely forgiveable, but it's not genius.
Rating: 5
Summary: O'Neill at the top of his form
Comment: This is a slightly oversize paperback of arguably O'Neill's finest work. That actually makes it easier to read or for an actor to use. There's enough space in the margins to mark your blocking or make notes. My only complaint is that I might have liked a little more space between characters' lines to help differentiate who's speaking. But at 196 pages, I guess the publishers had to make some choices. Given that we don't have a lot of choices if we want this play individually, this will do just fine. It's a nice book, pleasant to hold. You'll like it.
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Title: Long Day's Journey into Night, Second edition by Eugene O´Neill, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0300093055 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Three Plays : Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill ISBN: 0679763961 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill ISBN: 0375725857 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 19 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee ISBN: 0451158717 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller ISBN: 0140481346 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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