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Waiting for Godot

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A seminal work of twentieth century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estra...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Manny rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: french, linguistics-and-philosophy, well-i-think-its-funny, parody-homage, transcendent-experiences, pooh-dante

ACT III

VLADIMIR: They've called us back.

ESTRAGON: For an encore?

VLADIMIR: No, we're supposed to say what it means.

(A pause)

ESTRAGON: What what means?

VLADIMIR: This play! We have to explain it.

ESTRAGON: And then?

VLADIMIR: (discouraged) I don't know. Maybe Godot will arrive. But again, maybe he won't. He's not very reliable. (Another pause) Still, we can try.

The rest of this review is in my book What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante and Other Futile Speculations

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Mar 30, 2013 Paul marked it as assorted-rants-about-stuff

Review revived - toplists not updated for 2nd week running. It's almost like certain people are so busy opening Swiss bank accounts that they can't find the time to run the programs.

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"I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday"

Ah, how true. As you know, the top lists are our own version of the Billboard Hot 100, only sexier. And they get more hits than ten Gangnam Style vids. And yes, you could describe the sudden inexplicable absence of the top lists as a "first world problem" if you wer...more

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Apr 21, 2012 Shan Jago rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

…so in the dream I’m sitting on a mound beneath the tree with its single
leaf rustling against the branches reading Jane Eyre in the moonlight
while we wait. Over the top of the book I make suggestive glances at Charlotte in her bowler and black dress leaning against the trunk of the skeletal tree smoking cigs and occasionally yawning or rubbing her dark eyes tired of all this waiting. She’s looking fine and since it appears I’m spending eternity with Charlotte Brontë and those other two ragged...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Palice Pottle rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: dissappointed, fer-class, hate-most-characters, i-should-get-a-trophy-for-finishing, needs-cutting, shit-on-paper-i-tell-ya, really-needs-cutting

Oh, what a useless play. Nothing happens in it. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I can usually learn something from plays or novels I read for class, but this was just - god, stupid. Two guys sit and wait near a tree for some Godot person, and they just talk, and talk about nothing, and time passes - they go home, come back the next day, and do the same thing. I think I would've liked it if it was a bit shorter - but 60 pages of these two idiots doing nothing but talk? Come on! The dialogue was so annoying....more Oh, what a useless play. Nothing happens in it. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I can usually learn something from plays or novels I read for class, but this was just - god, stupid. Two guys sit and wait near a tree for some Godot person, and they just talk, and talk about nothing, and time passes - they go home, come back the next day, and do the same thing. I think I would've liked it if it was a bit shorter - but 60 pages of these two idiots doing nothing but talk? Come on! The dialogue was so annoying. It was like the talk I have with myself when I'm procrastinating on some project. Just childish and useless and nothing comes out of it except a waste of time. Like this play.

I wonder if I'll change my mind about it after I go to lecture. We'll see.

After lecture:

Yeah, still think the same. Yes, I understand that this play would make us think about our own lives, and yes, I understand the whole, OH DOES GOD EXIST IS HE GONNA SAVE ME FROM THIS? thing too, but really Beckett, couldn't you have done that in a shorter play? An entire freaking paragraph of stage directions that consists of nothing but two characters passing around fucking HATS?

I MEAN WHAT THE HELL!

If he was seriously intending to piss off people by that, then he succeeded. If he was actually hoping that people got so bored and frustrated with these idiotic characters that it made them think of their own lives and how useless they were, and how they didn't normally do anything in life - well, then, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing, but that would only be not such a bad thing if say, people stopped reading or walked out sometime after ten minutes and did something productive. Which, I doubt happened. They probably sat there and laughed and thought, OMFG, pure genius, eh?

No. Maybe to someone during that time, but to me, it's a huge freaking waste of time. Which kinda says something about people in our age, hm? Yes? Maybe? Kinda? No? Whatever.

But really, there is no plot, no character development, the dialogue is shit, confusing, repetitive, all over the place and just ridiculous. I can appreciate classic works if there's something, I can bear it when there are characters and they do something, I'm still fine when there is next to zero plot and it's mostly thoughts - but this? God, no. No, no, no, no. I don't like it at all.

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Sep 30, 2007 Christian Clarke rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Matthew Pilarski: My Goodreads Hero!!!!

Shelves: 20th-century-drama, irish

I read this book while hang-gliding over the coast of Lichtenstein. It was difficult to grip the jacket of the book, not only because I was airborn, but because the night before I was in Moscow having vodka and gasoline with Luis San Baptista Rodolfo Sr., a ex-foot soldier for the Revolutionary FALN, and my head was POUNDING! I told Luis over a dinner (red cabbage over braised Skeletor Dolls) I had never seen the last episode of Family Ties, and he instantly grew furious, and cried out, "Matushk...more

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Feb 13, 2012 Riku Sayuj rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Ah, the blindness in the repeat act. It killed me.

btw - Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French, not English. Godot does not verbally suggest Dieu.

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Dec 09, 2012 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: reading-through-history, 2012

What a relief!

I had been under the impression that Waiting for Godot was a religious allegory, where Estragon and Vladimir represented the two thieves crucified with Jesus, or society in general; Lucky represented Jesus; Pozzo represented organized religion; and the whole thing was some tortured, surreal / comedic commentary on the pointlessness / necessity of faith. Gar, I thought, if I wanted earnest religious allegory I could just read Life of Pi again, borrrrrrring.

"It's never the same pus f...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Manny rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: swedish-and-norwegian, well-i-think-its-funny

Totally unauthorised translation of Paul's review. It's all Ian's fault (see comment #16).

ESTRAGON : Strunt i det här. Vi drar.

VLADIMIR : Det går inte.

ESTRAGON : Varför då?

VLADIMIR : Vi väntar på topplistorna, eller?

ESTRAGON : Å. Dom.

VLADIMIR : Jo, dom! Utan topplistorna vet vi inte vem som är topp och vem som är... öh... botten. Världen är ett enda kaos. Vilken resension är bäst? Vilken slängde sig som en glad lax uppför resensionsforserna för att fortplanta sig i solen?

ESTRAGON : Fan vad du är...more

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Oct 30, 2012 Mosca rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

It is not often said, but reading a play is not that much different from reading a cooking recipe, and then trying to imagine the experience of the food.

A good and true performance is absolutely necessary for any real understanding of a play. An attentive audience is necessary for performers to generate that magic that ignites experience.

A good playwright knows that attention of an audience can only be achieved if the attention of actors and directors are held by the written word, especially a...more

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Jul 27, 2008 Michael Kneeland rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comic-masterpieces

As a pretentious senior in high school, I thought I would uber-sheik and take a girl a had a crush on to a play, Waiting for Godot, which I had read in the Comedy, Wit, and Satire English elective that I took the previous year with my favorite high school English teacher, Dr. Stone. How I got the tickets is inconsequential (okay, okay: my dad won them from the radio; my uber-sheik persona just took a big hit), but suffice to say, my crush and I were the youngest members in the crowd. Fortunately...more As a pretentious senior in high school, I thought I would uber-sheik and take a girl a had a crush on to a play, Waiting for Godot, which I had read in the Comedy, Wit, and Satire English elective that I took the previous year with my favorite high school English teacher, Dr. Stone. How I got the tickets is inconsequential (okay, okay: my dad won them from the radio; my uber-sheik persona just took a big hit), but suffice to say, my crush and I were the youngest members in the crowd. Fortunately for me, my crush was also somewhat pretentious (though not nearly as much as myself), so the evening was not an entire bust.

About fifteen minutes into the show, my memory finally overpowered my hormones and I remembered what Waiting for Godot actually is: a philosophical piece, more for discussion afterwards than for immediate enjoyment. I silently berated myself; after all, how could I possibly make a move during Wait for Godot? I mean...it was WAITING FOR GODOT, for crying out loud! There is not one female role in the entire play, and the closest thing to a romantic relationship we get is between the two lead male characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who bicker, joke, hug, and so on as though they are a married couple. Oh well, no romance for me that evening, but at the very least, I retained my decidedly cool, uber-sheik persona.

Well, I guess "cool" is a subjective term.

In any event, in the years since my botched date, I have come to sincerely appreciate Godot. The play is almost literally about nothing (ahead of Seinfeld by more than a few decades) as it depicts the two men mentioned earlier just sitting (or standing, or dancing, etc.) around as they wait for a man named Godot (who, incidentally, never arrives). Other characters arrive from time to time, but that's about it for the main action. So how has this been interpreted so many different ways?

Well, you could say it is the lack of action that speaks to us. Or perhaps it's simply the kooky, wordy dialogue. Or maybe it's the complex, desperate characterization. Or it could also possibly be its minimalist approach to theater. Or, to be sure, it's a combination of all these things. Whatever it is, political, social, cultural, Freudian, Jungian, existentialist, Biblical, and even gay theorists have all written volumes about what Godot means, or if it even means anything at all, or if that even matters one way or the other. I like that about works of literature like this: you can't pin any "meaning" down in one place (as you ostensibly can with, say, The Chronicles of Narnia). Not only does it keep you, the reader (or audience member) thinking long after the work is over, but it ensures the author some amount of immortality. It's like James Joyce once said (and incidentally, Joyce employed Beckett as his personal secretary for a time): “I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it [Ulysses] will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”

A girl I used to work with tried to convince me that "Godot" is pronounced "God-ott." Despite my rebuttals that Beckett had originally written the play in French--which would mean "Godot" would be pronounced with the French -ot ending as "oh"--she violently proclaimed that it was "God-ott," which she learned from her favorite theater professor, who had supposedly heard this from Beckett himself while they shared a drink in a bar. Whatever. I guess this just goes to prove my point that just about everything in this play is open to interpretation, whether it's the overall meaning, or the simple pronunciation of a word.

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Mar 29, 2008 Sean rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Those who really love theatre (or work at LottaBurger)

Definitely not for everybody but by God (if he shows up) it's brilliant. But I wouldn't blame anyone for disagreeing with me. Still it's more accessible than you might think -- a student who studied this play with me in one of my university classes had the assignment of memorizing the quite surrealistic Lucky and Potzo monologue. Problem was she was a single mother and between that and her manager's job at the local Lotta-Burger she didn't have much time for home study. Her solution? She gave a...more

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Jul 13, 2007 Pericles' rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who've already read "Endgame"

There's really nothing that I can write about this book that hasn't already been written. So, confident in the knowledge that nobody will ever read this, I'm going to jot down a few thoughts for posterity (my own personal posterity, as I intend never to have children).

The play is shot through with a cultural amnesia, and even the straight man (I would, incidentally, throw my lot in with Vladimir as best candidate for that particular title) seems to be on the knife's edge between amnesiac and his...more There's really nothing that I can write about this book that hasn't already been written. So, confident in the knowledge that nobody will ever read this, I'm going to jot down a few thoughts for posterity (my own personal posterity, as I intend never to have children).

The play is shot through with a cultural amnesia, and even the straight man (I would, incidentally, throw my lot in with Vladimir as best candidate for that particular title) seems to be on the knife's edge between amnesiac and historian.

Besides that, I enjoy that the play seems to be aware of itself. This is something that Beckett does in all kinds of subtle ways. In Watt, for example, he uses neologisms, only to have a character a hundred pages later wonderingly repeat the word, asking "Where have I heard that before?" which mirrors, ingeniously, the attentive reader's response. In Waiting for Godot the reflexivity is subtler, playing on the uncanny. The second act speaks to the first act, and as a result the two begin a dialogue in the reader or viewer's mind. This is accomplished with repetition of lines, along with a kind of theme and variation technique. In this sense, the form and content mirror each other. But what is interesting, I think, is the reflection on the nature of drama (especially when it's repeated on a nightly basis) in the play itself. Consider these two passages:

Pozzo: They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

And then at the bottom of the following page:

Vladimir: Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? [...] Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens) But habit is a great deadener. [...] I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said?

On one level, at least, this becomes the musings of a character in a play, aware of his boundaries (e.g. at one point, Estragon finds it impossible to leave the stage), both physical and psychological. So the extension of that, then, is a suggestion--or at least a question--about the nature of culture and our role within--special emphasis on within--said culture.

These are my preliminary thoughts, and aren't designed to withstand serious scrutiny. They're intended to act as a kind of signpost of my initial reactions to the play. (less)

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May 17, 2007 Eric rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: People that hate themselves

Recommended to Eric by: Megan Mandell

Shelves: classic

I was told that this play was brilliant and that Beckett was the best Irish playwright out there.

I disagree wholeheartedly with the first half of that statement: The only thing I found this existential mess to be was irritating. As for the second half of the above statement, I will admit I have never read another Irish playwright, so I cannot say whether Beckett is the greatest or not, but I hope he isn't for the sake of every other Irish playwright and everyone that goes to see Irish plays on...more

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May 19, 2007 Meghan rated it 5 of 5 stars

The more I read it, the more I see it performed, the more I love it. Beckett, I hear, was famous for refusing to comment on his work. About Godot, all he would say was, "It means what it says." It's not nihilist. It's not existentialist. It just is. And, when physically performed on stage by good actors, it's pretty funny, too.

That, however, doesn't stop me from drawing a few conclusions. I believe the play's most important accheivement is its multi-layered commentary on the relationship between...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Inder Suri rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, e-books, plays

What the fuck did I just read ??

THINK!

Yes, I should. I should think about it more.
I should sit back in silence and contemplate.

WAIT!

I will. Yes, I will.
No, Not for GODOT.
GODOT. Haah funny name. I hope he looks cool.
But can we see him? I don't know. Do you??
Waiting for Godot would be the most foolish thing to do. I think so.
Okay. So What have you been doing all your Life ?
Dont tell me you were Waiting for Godot. Seriously.

Aaah .. I don't know. I am not gonna wait for Godot.

Hmmm..

Uhhhh..

Shoul...more

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Jun 23, 2007 علی rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: modern-plays, great-ones, absurd-theatre

“We all are born mad. Some remain so."
جهانی شدن "در انتظار گودو" از این خاطر است که در هر مذهب و ایدئولوژی، انسان "در انتظار" چیزی یا کسی ست! واقعیت آن است که اگر بیرون از این دایره بایستی و نگاه کنی، "فردا" هم چندان تفاوتی با "امروز" نداشته است. دی دی (ولادیمیر) و گوگو (استراگون) نمادی از انسان اند، در برهوت زندگی، منتظر بهبودی، منتظر "گودو"، منتظر کسی که بیاید و "نان و پپسی را تقسیم کند". اما کسی نیست که بیاید، گیرم ما از جانب او، آمدنش را هر روز به تعویق می اندازیم؛ "فردا" خواهد آمد، و "فردا"...more “We all are born mad. Some remain so."
جهانی شدن "در انتظار گودو" از این خاطر است که در هر مذهب و ایدئولوژی، انسان "در انتظار" چیزی یا کسی ست! واقعیت آن است که اگر بیرون از این دایره بایستی و نگاه کنی، "فردا" هم چندان تفاوتی با "امروز" نداشته است. دی دی (ولادیمیر) و گوگو (استراگون) نمادی از انسان اند، در برهوت زندگی، منتظر بهبودی، منتظر "گودو"، منتظر کسی که بیاید و "نان و پپسی را تقسیم کند". اما کسی نیست که بیاید، گیرم ما از جانب او، آمدنش را هر روز به تعویق می اندازیم؛ "فردا" خواهد آمد، و "فردا" که "امروز" شد، باز هم...
جایی، یادم نیست کجا، خوانده بودم که بکت عنوان و هسته ی اولیه ی نمایش نامه را از تک پرده ی "در انتظار لفتی" اثر "کلیفورد اوتس" الهام گرفته که نمایش نامه ای در مورد اعتصاب تاکسی رانان نیویورک، در سال های نکبت اقتصادی دهه های بیست و سی قرن گذشته است. رانندگان تمام مدت منتظر رهبر اعتصاب، "لفتی" می مانند، و لفتی نمی آید، چون کشته شده و جسدش را در سطل آشغال کنار خیابان یافته اند. در انتظار گودو تا آنجا که بخاطر دارم، سه بار ترجمه شده، بار اول به گمانم توسط سیروس طاهباز، که به همه چیز شبیه بود، جز بکت. دومی را داوود رشیدی ترجمه کرده انگار، و از روی اجرایی که در اروپا دیده بود، عینن روی صحنه آورد، خود در نقش ولادیمیر، پرویز صیاد در نقش استراگون، پرویز کاردان در نقش لاکی و سیروس افهمی در نقش پوتزو. سومین بار که صحبتش را شنیده ام، اما چاپش را ندیده ام، توسط نجف دریابندی همراه با چند نمایش نامه ی دیگر بکت ترجمه شد، و قرار بود در یک مجلد، منتشر شود که...

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Mar 29, 2009 C. rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: pour le monde pas pour la guerre

Recommended to C. by: 106-102 Modern and Contemporary Literature

Shelves: drama, own-or-access, studied, classics, to-be-re-read, 2009

I learned some interesting things about Samuel Beckett today, for example that he exercised ridiculously harsh control over his work which now is continued by his estate. Also that his life overlapped mine by 22 days, and damn, for some reason that was a kick in the guts.
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OH MY FUCKING GOODNESS
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This is hilarious.

Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally). I remain in the dark.

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Jun 18, 2012 Yasiru rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourites

Having read Beckett's Endgame, I proceed now to Waiting for Godot (found at http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for...). Below are some remarks of mine:

I made the mistake this time of recording my thoughts as I was reading through the text, so the following may seem somewhat disjoint. However, this did give me the insight that Waiting for Godot is a particularly distilled and elemental narrative. There are seeds and germs for so much here (never minding the various interpretations I later found on...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Dina Nabil rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: own

حين تدخل عالم صومايل بيكت عموما او "فى انتظار جودو" خصوصا فهو كالمكان المحرم دخول المنطق به فانزع منطفك و اتركه خارجا و استمتع بعالم بلا جاذبيه ارضيه

انها فى انتظار جودو يا عزيزى التى فتحت للعالم كنوز العبثيه و فتحت لى باب عشرون مسرحيه مشابهه ابحث فيها عن عما شعرت به مع جودو الاصليه

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Jul 17, 2007 Yulia rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: plays

I think Oprah put it best when she said: "We need to remember that just because we're sad, that doesn't mean we're not also marvelously comical and transcendently courageous."

Who knew?

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Aug 14, 2012 Angus rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nobel-laureates, reviewed-and-blogged

Original post at Book Rhapsody.

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An attempt to review a play

I do not know what to make out of this, and yet, my goal to write something for every book that I read that would at least have one sensible sentence forces me to revisit this play. It’s the first play that I ever read, and I already have an existing half-baked report on my initial reading of this. After reading the post and skimming the book/pamphlet, I am still unsure how to make sense of it.

So what are the possible causes? 1.) I’m n...more

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Feb 21, 2008 matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: theatrepieces, worldly-lit, eire

Nothing happens...twice. It really is one of those rivetingly oblique plays which keep you wanting more, thinking more, inquiring deeper even as your mind's built-in narrativizing reflex is thwarted at every turn, like a fish darting through inky seas.

There are, as in the rest of the best of Beckett, such glimmeringly vibrant veins of language and poetry and vision that the more mottled and slightly boring bits become easier to deal with.

Give this one some time, tease it out, let it come to you...more

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Apr 13, 2009 Tatiana rated it 4 of 5 stars

The first time I read this book, when I was reading it for a friend in college, someone who took the literary courses we engineers didn't have room for, I LOVED it and just laughed at all the humor. It was the freedom in it that struck me. I didn't realize anyone else knew these things. They're things people don't talk about. It struck like a fresh wind that someone recognized about life what seemed to obvious to me. It is a hilarious play. I'd love to see it performed someday.

When I read it aga...more

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Oct 25, 2011 Phil rated it 5 of 5 stars

As bleak as I had heard, but much funnier than I expected, Waiting for Godot didn't earn its fifth star until the last few pages. Though the fact that the play is a metaphor for the seeming futility of existence is obvious from the start, it's in the last ten pages or so that Beckett really pulls everything together and makes his point, which is a lot more nuanced than the dime-store existentialism I've seen some use when attempting to explain the work. Yes, it's uneventful. Yes, it's somewhat r...more

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May 11, 2008 Danine rated it 4 of 5 stars

After reading this I thought about times in my life when I was waiting for Godot too. I wasn't sure if I should be looking for a deep meaning in this play but I did. The two main characters have known each other for a very long time and briefly discuss if they should go their separate ways but alas they do not part and continue to wait for Godot.

All of it reminded me of life and relationships and how some people do not share the same road but stay with each other out of habit despite how the rel...more

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Apr 04, 2009 Rebecca rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Is Beckett synonymous with bollocks?
Twas reminiscent of my puppy's conversations with the window dog.

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Aug 26, 2008 DianneB added it Recommends it for: those planning to see the play

Recommended to DianneB by: Oprah website--Five books everyone should read once

I read this because it was on a recommended reading list. I felt like I entered the world of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first", with supporting roles by the Three Stooges. I can understand even more clearly the adage that there is a fine line between insanity and genius, as I questioned where Beckett fell in there. With all this said, I would still enjoy seeing the play sometime, if I ever had the chance. I can see where the repetition of the actions and the emergence of new situation on ol...more

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Apr 04, 2009 Windy rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2009

Somebody please explain this to me. Please.

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Jan 22, 2012 Artemisia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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C'è un silenzio assordante in questo libro. Un'inquietudine, un disagio, un pozzo di dialoghi non detti che raramente ho trovato in altre opere o situazioni da me vissute. Aspettando Godot è uno di qui libri che si capisce poco, pochissimo e che però, ognuno di noi, sente suo. E' in queste situazioni di sordità, cecità, mutismo dell'anima e del corpo, attesa, ossessione, paura della perdita che ci ritroviamo. Le nostre scarpe sono quelle che non ci andranno mai bene, quelle che cambieranno il gi...more

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Feb 22, 2009 Jared rated it 2 of 5 stars

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The idea of this play is intriguing. The play concerns two characters who are, as the title suggests, "Waiting for Godot." They're not entirely sure why they're waiting for him, because they're not sure whether his coming will be great or terrible. Symbolic interpretation of the play can lead to some interesting insights into human nature, and possibly some perspective into man's relationship with God.

Having said all that, the play is boring. Really, really boring. The main characters are confus...more

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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” — 318 people liked it

“Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

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I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ” — 115 people liked it

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