マクベス (新潮文庫)
シェイクスピア四大悲劇の一つですが、私としてはこれを一押しにしたいです。
成功を目指して、ずるずると悪の道に踏み込んでいく様。
葛藤しつつも、やはり悪の道に知らず知らずに進んでいく。
まさに人間がここに描かれています。
Romeo and Juliet (Oxford World's Classics: the Oxford Shakespeare)
もう何をさておいてジュリエットが下手。エマ・トンプソンの妹らしいが、縁故採用はやめましょうよ。サー・デレク・ジャコビのマキューシオは流石です。ケネス・ブラナーのロミオは加もなく不可もなし。
けいおん！ (4) (まんがタイムKRコミックス)
連載もアニメも終わってしまったからファンに取っては名残の一冊になってしまいました。
中身はファンならみんなご存知のとおりなので特にとやかく言うことはありません。
ただ、素直に買って、読んで、感動すれば良いのです。
作者の次の作品はすっぱり切り替えて違った趣向を目指すのか。それとも「けいおん」の続編になるのか。
梓が表紙に登場していないだけに今後が気になります。
New Moon (The Twilight Saga)
Life is far from normal for Bella Swan during her senior year of high school. True, her life is full of drama and boy troubles, but for Bella who sees herself as a danger magnet life holds much much more. Edward Cullen, her ever-handsome boyfriend who just happens to be a vampire, breaks her heart when he leaves after Bella receives a near-fatal paper cut at her eighteenth birthday party. Realizing that his family no matter how determined to avoid human blood, can within seconds be overwhelmed with tempation and violence leads him to place Bella's safety ahead of his own desires. To say that Bella is devastated is an understatment, she becomes zombie-like in her loss, a fact which is finally realized when Bella and one of her friends are watching a Zombie movie. "It wasn't until almost the very end, as I watched a haggard zombie shambling after the last shrieking survivor, that I realized what the problem was. The scene kept cutting between the horrified face of the heroine, and the dead emotionless face of her pursuer, back and forth as it closed the distance. And I realized which one resembled me the most. . . But it was ironic, all things considered, that, in the end, I would wind up a zombie. I hadn't seen that one coming. Not that I hadn't dreamed of becoming a mythical monster once--just never a grotesque, animated corpse. . . It was depressing to realize that I wasn't the heroine anymore, that my story was over." (106) But Bella's story is far from over. Reintroduce into the picture, Jacob Black, the young man who first shared with Bella the fact that she was falling in love with a vampire, this new friendship reenergizes Bella's existence and gives her a reason to continue on. But is her friendship with Jacob any safer for her than her relationship with Edward was? Or is Jacob hiding a dangerous secret of his own? Is Edward out of the picture for good, or will he make a comeback to try to reclaim her heart? In addition, I highly recc. Giorgio Kostantinos' 'The Quest' an exciting read, and one that I highly recc.
