Thursday, September 3, 2009

King Lear

King Lear is a book about an old man who lives in a cave with his 3 daughters, Ronald Reagan, Gonorrhea, and something. He asks them to tell him how much they love him and 2 of them say "we love you alot" and the other one says "nothing" so he's like "WTF?" so then they pop some guy's eyes out and then he pretends to jump off a cliff or whatever and they all die. Will this be on the exam?

RATING: C

(Image from heystudents.com.)

13 comments:

Internet Robyn said...

The UT system must read a different version of King Lear than the version they read here at the BEST undergrad university in the Maritimes.

Internet John said...

mmmnnnindeed *snoot snoot*. Actually, I think it's the same version. The tricky word in there is read.

Internet John said...

Also, didn't the chair of your English department say that Shakespeare was overrated and the finest book in the world was Wide Sargasso Sea or some shit?

If that monster can get tenure, anyone can.

Internet Robyn said...

Man, Home Alone would have been so much better if Joe Pesci had used a vice on Macaulay Culkin.

Internet John said...

The vice is far too quick for McCauley Culkin. Feed him to the sarlacc.

(I've often wondered how a human with a lifespan of, say, 75 years could stay alive in the thing's stomach for "thousands of years." I'm guessing Lucas was on a few tabs of the THX 1138 blotter when he thought that one up.)

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

um... dont yall live together or w/e

Internet John said...

Nope.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

o sometimes i read this website and i just dont nkow what the fuck naymore

I.J. said...

Someone's gotta post comments on here. Even the fucking tumbleweeds are packing up and leaving.

Editor said...

"A lot" is two words.

I.J. said...

Oh dear, so it is. Come to think of it, King Lear isn't really a book, his daughters aren't really named "Ronald Reagan" and "Gonorrhea," and Joe Pesci appears nowhere in Shakespeare's play. Ironically, it's almost as if a student imbecile wrote this very review, which is simply lousy with run on sentences.
:O

LoCo said...

Third daughter is named "Chlamydia." She becomes infertile (spoilers).

Editor said...

":O" is not a grammatically correct use of punctuation.