watermelleon's Reviews (254)

I love Wilde as always, but have given three stars as it simply wasn't my favourite compared to others I have read in personal taste. seemingly an unpopular opinion but one of my favourite parts was the ending! I believe it says a lot about those in power and how very rare it is that someone kind comes into that power, pointing out that although kindness is so necessary to humanity, few act in such a way, keeping us in a circular loop of the rise and fall of society.

It was nice to read through some old poems I already knew and discover some new ones!! however, I really hated this book edition!! Goblin market, in my opinion one of Rossetti's best poems, was abridged along with some of her other longer poems! It just completely took away the emotion and message from those poems which really upset me. In addition, the "illustrations" I found did not match the poems and felt like they were just old paintings they put in (very much like those cheap paperback classics.) NO CLASSIC DESERVES THIS. NO BOOK DESERVES THIS. also the images were clearly printed cheaply, on one painting memorably I thought a woman was missing half of her face because her dark coloured hair blended into the background. Can't blame Rossetti for any of this, but she would probably also not be impressed.

Conclusion: always read Rossetti. never abridged, never in this edition.

THIS WAS SUCH A GREAT ART BOOK!
the art was fantastic, and it was filled with such beautiful concept art and new facts/material beyond what is seen in the film. definitely one of the most beautiful books I own!

trolls forever <3

to give you a picture of how much I enjoyed this, I nearly missed my stop on the bus. After getting off onto (thankfully) the right place on the street, I sat down at the bus stop and carried on reading. I travelled on a train up the country and then home on that bus, and at no point did I want to put this book down until it was finished. I didn't even eat today until this book was done. This was honestly the most addictive thing I have read this year.

I related to absolutely none of these characters in any of their situations but each one of them was so well developed and vivid you could just imagine perfectly what each individual was like. the story was absolutely gripping and through the use of conversation I found my thoughts about characters were swayed through the use of other characters. I knew I disliked Stanley very early on, but his persuasive male discourse made ME want to stay with him and trust him, and I really felt for Stella in her situation.

This was just a fantastic read, which has clearly inspired so many other works of fiction and media. some references were more obvious that I was aware of; Almoldovar's film "all about my mother" which story centres around a theatre production, and a small reference in the mystery book " [b:Felidae|1175398|Felidae (Felidae, #1)|Akif Pirinçci|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1342715879s/1175398.jpg|1239176] " which lightly references Williams's writing style in his plays at a point. some references however I did not even REALISE were references for many years! A favourite band of mine called Nightwish referenced this play in two of their songs, Sahara and Dead boy's poem, and I didn't even know these were references to a play, however the composer has been known to reference strongly other novels in his songwriting from stephen king to walt whitman. I think the amount of references to this play lurking about shows credit to the amount of influence it has had on others and that really says it all to me!

I used to love this show but why is this the first time i'm reading these comics? the art is incredible and the story is fantastic, it fills every single hole that the show rushed over. I cannot WAIT to read more of these and see where they go!

Wow. I am definitely going to get hold of the graphic novel of this. This is the sort of thing I was expecting from free comic book day; a taster that just reels you in and leaves you wanting more.