European Culture in the Great War

European Culture in the Great War
By:Aviel Roshwald,Richard Stites
Published on 2002-02-14 by Cambridge University Press

A comparative study of European cultural and social history during the First World War.

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Don't you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were evenly plainspoken, simply utilitarian, unpretentious, and -- especially else -- dull, dull, dull? Don't you sort of loathe when people say'do not you think in this way or sense this way'in an endeavor to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to agreeing using them? In the words of ABBA: I really do, I do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Properly, because the interwebs is just a earth in which yesteryear stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the current (and with fetish porn), we could review days gone by in their inviolable presentness anytime we wish. Or at least till this site ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in their entirety. I have bound it with much string and drawn it here for your perusal. 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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you never want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it absolutely was meant to be read, then it will be a novel, not a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every character for a couple pages). None people had read the play before. None people wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to create me more or less hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can actually fuck up your GPA. 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