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From: JonH🍕
Quite difficult to read Shakespeare. Certainly at first.

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1st season of The Crown, one of the best TV series ever made IMHO.	Free Thinking Doggie	21:42:39
>> Time warp still in effect then.	Denc 🗡	21:46:49
>> So people never read Dickens, Orwell, or Hemingway because they were written ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	21:50:38
>> Edgar Allan Poe still a good read 👿👹👺...[more]	JonH🍕	09:19:51
>> I went to an adaptation for the stage of a Poe story, with Stephen Berkoff- ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	10:37:23
>> Not many no. Apart from forced school Dickens.	Hamsterwheel	07:28:43
>> I read Dickens quite late, we didn't do it at school (more Shakespear & war poets). ...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:42:11
>> No 3 reading Macbeth for GCSE English. He finds Lady Macbeth fascinating. ... [more]	JonH🍕	09:22:44
>> Quite difficult to read Shakespeare. Certainly at first.	JonH🍕	09:26:29
>> It was written to be performed rather than read. Have seen good ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:05:42
>> He’s not the best example for your point though, as his stories originally ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	08:54:24
>> I am aware of that. But I wasn't around at the time they were published ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	09:06:05
>> 🤔 you were around when The Crown came out	Hamsterwheel	09:08:08
>> So ? What bloody difference does it make when I watch it ?...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	09:15:10
>> Sadly goes off as they made up too much in the later ones. Though ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	09:19:19
>> Yes earlier was better. The Thatcher episode at Balmoral good though.	Free Thinking Doggie	10:39:17
>> I’m about to read A Christmas Carol, as Hamlet has it for O Level and ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	08:56:40
>> Sure they did. But it’s the age of instant now.	Denc 🗡	22:18:12
>> That's just a choice. I may watch a film from the 70s this weekend.	Free Thinking Doggie	07:09:00

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