xennicole's Reviews (2.27k)

Through space and time, comedy changes and sometimes doesn't translate well, but it is nice to see an excellent anthology of comedy.

Alright. The biggest takeaway from this book is that slurs are more damaging than swear words to children. Curse all you want, but once you start using slurs those impact children mentally and emotionally.

I don't know. I felt indifferent. I can see how some people would love this work of poetry. There are a few good poems, and the drawings were interesting. Free verse is without rhyming or meter, which at these poems are but poetry (for me) is more than a phrase with a line break, for example:

you
are your own
soul mate

It also felt like she was doing blackout poetry of her work. I wanted more, but maybe she wasn't willing to go there.

Meh. Written in play form (Not sure why perhaps a more entertaining read?) with monologues of political and philosophical thought during the breaks of debauchery. The book would be scandalous, up there with Lolita, but today's world and knowledge of things that were once forbidden nothing seemed shocking, granted the book did make me do a few raise eyebrows while reading and nothing more.

Should be titled "Wonderland: How Wonder Made the Modern World," not Play. The word "play" is used loosely as other reviewers suggest. It's an interesting angle at looking at the history of most things do for entertainment.

More than likely PBS will make a mini-series, and that will be interesting.

Some essays were better than others.