Book: Waiting for Godot
Author: Samuel Beckett
Pages: 128
This is the 47th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
The story revolves around 2 seemingly homeless men waiting for someone - or something - named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of theirown consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhausitble search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remians one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
This was better than I expected. I read it for the Rory Gilmore challenge, and really didn't know much about it except that Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves recently performed it on Broadway. I listened to it, and it was a good way to absorb this little book. Quick listen with less than 2 hours of ime and a fun yet tragic story. Glad I read it.
Stars: 4
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