Jason Mills
5 libros leídos para LibriVox
- You get a rough, episodic history play with flashes of Shakespearean energy, especially in Edward’s pursuit of the Countess of Salisbury and the Black Prince’s battlefield speeches. It’s uneven and not wholly Shakespeare’s, but the mix of courtly temptation, war, and sudden moral seriousness makes it an intriguing afternoon read.
- Fair warning, there's no plot, just a whole invented mythology in little prose-poem fragments, gods like Mung who is death and Skarl drumming so the great god never wakes. If you like scripture-cadence strangeness before bed, an entry or two at a time, it's lovely.
- You spend time on an island with Prospero, Ariel, and Caliban, where magic, resentment, and theatrical illusion keep changing the ground beneath you. It’s airy and strange rather than tightly plotted, but the movement toward forgiveness gives the play a quietly human weight.
- You get why people still quote it once Mephistopheles calmly admits he's in hell right now, standing there. The middle sags into slapstick with popes and horse traders, honestly, but Faustus watching his last hour tick away is worth the whole slim thing.
- You read this for the grand, old-fashioned music of Eddison’s prose, and for Lord Juss and his brothers facing Witchland with more courage than common sense. It’s ornate, episodic, and sometimes gloriously overblown, so you’ll want patience, but its feuds, feasts, duels, and fierce friendships linger.