Thread: WHy TOLKIEN and LOTR is overrated!!!
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Old 06-13-2009, 10:05 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by Ak Mike View Post
Ahi and Lady Blue (and Harry) - hope it's not too late in the thread - but please read Orwell's brilliant essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" - available right here in mobileread in an e-book called "Fifty Orwell Essays."

Orwell discusses, and eviscerates, Tolstoy's position on Shakespeare.
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I'd rather wait for a summary of it by somebody else, as my opinion of Orwell is pretty dismal, and an English author "eviscerating" a far better Russian writer for his low opinion of Shakespeare is more than a bit suspect.

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