Waiting for Godot

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Summary: pointless
Review: the entire play was on the pointlessness of our exsistance, of our waiting for an answer from somewhere (Godot, God, or whatever other translations you wish to put on it). But with the lack of development from the characters, and so much room for interpritation that one can never be sure of any of the finer points, it made for a frustrating read. In fact upon many any point that this book was attempting to make would be compleatly lost. It is in my recomodation that if you wish to read a book on the futile and pointless life that we are living, pick up "L'Estranger" by Albert Camus. And after all that I'll sit back and laugh at my self, for sitting and reading this, waiting the whole time for something to happen in this bloody play.

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Summary: Utterly Depressing Theme
Review: Unless you'd fancy the rest of your lifetime (or do I exaggerate) brooding over the futility of living, the meaninglessness of life - it would be wise to keep away from Beckett's plays. Reasoning powers are intensely inbued in this novel, which is why it can be a strong anti-living, anti-Christ, anti-all that life and living should be about. Life is all about hopes and dreams, and Beckett's deceptively simple & comic play wittingly or unwittingly creates a dark perspective that offers no hope for reprieval. The poignancy of its theme is doubtless - and because it is not possible to appreciate Beckett's incredible talents without not being convinced by his phililophy of life, one wonders how one can go on living the next day. The author's words cuts like a knife in exacting existence itself, when life should not be defined in the realm of our own reasonings.

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Summary: My Interpretation
Review: I think this book is really a Civil War story. The characters in the story reveal it. There is a grant, lee, and a slave, and i think the story fits. I was so convinced that I wrote a paper over for my college professor in theater history.

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Summary: POSSIBLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF THE 20th CENTURY
Review: Samuel Beckett's classic work is possibly the most important work of the 20th century. He defies many dramatic traditions within the work as he drives home the play's minimal, yet powerful theme. If one reads or views the play, then asks himself "Who is Godot?", then one has missed the entire point. Godot is irrelevant. The play is about Gogo and Didi waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting. What do we, as humans, do everyday? We wait. We wait to wake up, we wait to go to work, we wait to go to lunch, we wait to get off work. We all live in a repetitive structure of waiting, but what are we really waiting on? What? Nothing? Who knows? We involve ourselves in these repetitive structures to avoid the questions of nothingness. Gogo and Didi's games are an attempt to avoid nothingness. As one reviewer once said, "The play is about two men in search for the meaning of life and finding meaninglessness." The play can be utterly hilarious, but just when you're at the peak of your laughter, a character says or does something that makes us realize their predicament, our predicament, and it crushes you. It is a masterpiece. Sadly, it is a hard read and good productions are rare, but if you do catch a good one, it might make you see many aspects of life in a different light, for better and for worse.

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Summary: HERE IT IS!!!
Review: Here it is all the ills of society in one book. Your mission? Your mission is to decipher it from the two most idiotic men in the world... or are they?

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Summary: Beckett's Post-Quasi-Neo-Nonexistentialisn
Review: It troubles me deeply to give such a sublime and insidious piece of propaganda but one star. Beckett has succeeded so well at convincing the critical and comatose public alike that his 'need to express the nothing to express to no one' is a genuine motive that even Euclidian proof to the contrary is gauged as 'Absurd'. This play was written against Poland, people, probabably at the bequest of the IRA. The so aptly named Lucky carries a bag of chalk dust, obviously in reference to the erasure of Poland in WW2. Estragon, examine his name, is an intimate and depreciating portrait of Susan B. Anthony. Vladamir is a harrowing portrait of Stalin in his adolescence. The boy is symbolic of the audience, tortured by the knowledge that Godot, named after Godiforus IV, Poland's greatest monarch, has been assasinated long since. Pozzo is Beckett's own representative. He pretends to incarnate nothingness while in fact sadistically savoring the wretchedness of his guinea pigs. Beckett went to his grave laughing at us. Ten years of careful research have revealed this hideious truth to me, and I will not be silent.

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Summary: Simply bloody marvellous
Review: Powerful messages are communicated in deceptively simple language in this play. But, I agree that it is not for the easily depressed - the play does not offer one speck of hope nor justification for our existence and the future. Depressing perspective? Maybe, but its also highly entertaining when we realise that the whole world is actually made up of the five characters involved in the play.

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Summary: Waiting for god(?) can be fun
Review: My oppinion: It is a play about time and about human nature.A play wich in so few words shows humans desperatly seeking after a "real life". When only it happens , if only someone or then I shall... A play about waiting without relgion or faith. Just pation. You become involved with "didi"(Vladimir) and "gogo"(Estragon)...(Norwegian translation.)and feel some anger and som pitty in them. But it`s also scary to recognise your own fear of life. (And people around you feeling that way...) It`s easy reading and humorous. And it is after all an absurd story, so if you prefer books with a "story" you should give it a shot anyway, it will properly be a bit suprising because it has a story, just another kind than the traditional one. I would strongly recomand this and also other plays written by Beckett!

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Summary: This is a book that i can read over and over!
Review: i enjoyed this book so much when i had to read it for theatre arts, i reread it about 10 times after. i never get bored of it, and the best thing is that it is easy reading. i even went to see the play, i loved it!

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Summary: I am still Waiting For Godot.
Review: Waiting for Godot is a snail moving story about two men who sit around fighting, and trying on a boot that doesn't fit all while waiting for a guy who never comes. This story was repiticious in the most borring way. There might have been a lesson this story, but it is hard to hear under the loud constant shouts of "BED TIME STORY."