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Reading the book has to be less satisfying that seeing the play, but this shortcoming is mitigated by the fact that it is generally performed with a minimalist décor. As an absurdist philosophical exploration on the meaning of life (or lack of), it entertains in the dark perspective that life itself is a comedy, with or without a punch line, when one spends it waiting for something else than life itself. "Waiting for Godot" is very much an acquired taste.
It's like listening to two idiots talk all day about nothing and waiting for someone (Gadot) to save them from their miserable lives. Not as good as I thought, a lot of repetition.
Damvlad: Right arm. Either way, we are waiting. When it does, we move. Estrogen: Maybe that's the point. Damvlad: It will come.
Damvlad: Some people might.Estrogen: Even if there's no point.Damvlad: Perhaps.Estrogen: Maybe we should go.Damvlad: No, I still think that we should wait. Estrogen: Do we even need a point. Damvlad: It could be. Damvlad: What other point could there be. Estrogen: On.Damvlad: Arm.Estrogen: But the point.Damvlad: It will come.Estrogen: Perhaps. Estrogen: Some don't.Damvlad: Some do, some don't, but either way, we must wait.Estrogen: That doesn't mean there's a point. Damvlad: That's right. Damvlad: Lots of people think there's a point.
Estrogen: Yes, I know. Estrogen: True. Estrogen: Maybe that's the point.Damvlad: Right arm. Estrogen: You mean right on. Damvlad: Yes, perhaps, but why wait.
Don't buy this book for the Kindle unless you can read impossibly small type, or you have the means to manually magnify it. On the Kindle, there are instances in which the type becomes microscopically small and can't be made any larger. It's a technical SNAFU.
The joke's on us.To be sure, the world NEEDED a play like this - and that's why three of the best for this one. If it can be hung, I'm afraid 'waiting for godot' is primed for the tate gallery. I can imagine it created quite a stir back in the early fifties, but then so did Hirst with his sliced-up pigs and horses.
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