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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Book - The Hobbit (part 2)

Book - The hobbit
Score : 10/10* 

 The adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit with much promise, on a quest to retrieve gold from a dragon, will face, alone or with a company of dwarves, many challenges and dangers.

The only downside of this wonderful book is that JRR didn't include female characters apart for some creatures... otherwise, his talent at story telling is tremendous and you don't want to put this book down, ever.

Initially intended as a children's novel, The Hobbit turned out as one for the entire family, but also studied by many scholars around the world, along its sequel LOTR. The narrative is one of the most inventive, especially for its days (1930's!) I could tell that Tolkien chose very carefully his wording, his sentences, and I learned to appreciate the poetic language he uses to describe actions, landscapes, or just about anything, really.

Alan Lee's illustrations accompany the story for a little visual relaxation - and you see why he'd get to work on the 6 movies derived from The Hobbit and LOTR - I think he really pinpointed what can be envisioned from Tolkien's writing, thus revealing a tremendous talent.
 
Score 10 for story telling, 9 for forgetting women exist?




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