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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16005.Paradise_Lost?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166696750m/16005.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16005.Paradise_Lost?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Paradise Lost</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9876.John_Milton">John Milton</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24559389?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I am not Christian so I didn't have any of the guilt some readers might feel when they start to root for Satan at the start of this poem. He seems kind of dreamy in a tall, dark, handsome and...umm...evil sort of way. So yeah, if you believe in what the bible says, he really screwed things up for us. But if he hadn't, I probably wouldn't have so much fun when I drink. On the other hand, I am not a big fan of that whole sleeping with his own daughter, Sin and spawning Death and then Death sleeping with his own mother and spawning all the hell hounds that live in Sin's belly. And what was with God having those two idiots guard the gates of hell. It was like he WANTED humanity to fail. <br/> <br/>I was actually pretty surprised that the poem itself didn't get in the way of reading this. After the first couple of books, I totally had the hang of the blank verse and even accidentally started SPEAKING in blank verse until my husband asked me what the hell was wrong with me. What the hell, indeed! <br/> <br/>Adam and Eve seem like total suckers because they were TOLD what was gonna happen and they STILL mucked it all up. Totally unsympathetic characters. And Adam - only eating the apple because he didn't want Eve being tossed out on her ass alone...? GAG. Whatever - he prolly told her to eat it first to see what would happen and then blamed the whole thing on her. Because, if it is true that he KNEW it was wrong while he was doing it, that makes him 10 times worse than Eve who was seduced by the serpentine Satan because of her trusting and innocent nature. <br/> <br/>All that ranting aside, I really did enjoy reading this. If I had read this 10 years ago...I wouldn't have read it. It gave me a lot to think about and I got to annoy the hubby for a good 2 days with all my iambic pentameter. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/702652?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>