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Lidiane Lopes lidianelopes — I was surprisingly not impressed with this book. John Updike is generally creative and descriptive, but this book seemed to me a collection of cliches about medieval Denmark: the woman who feels trapped by her role, the younger brother jealous of the successful older one (they're even dark and blond, respectively), the novelty of objects from far-away countries, the isolation of royalty who are closest to their personal servants, tiresome elderly advisers - the list goes on. I had expected him to really take this prequel he's created to a Hamlet level, but there's nothing in here of the play's dark themes, it's deep questions of right and wrong, or its complicated characters. (He's even managed to reduce Ophelia to banality. King Hamlet worries that she's not quite stable, but her one brief appearance shows only normal nervous-teenage-girl behavior with a sort of weird look in her eye. Not that memorable.) I was disappointed that the characters - who he had a chance to develop here, since they're not all strongly defined in the original play - turned out to be totally predictable. He does do a good job of making Claudius a sympathetic character, and a preferable one to King Hamlet, without making you feel that Shakespeare wronged him (he still deserves to die). But there are lots of things here - the fragility that regicide brings to a court, the complicated relationship that Gertrude COULD have had with Hamlet (she avoids him here), and the political climate of Denmark that made Hamlet so indecisive - that he ignored or glossed over. I hate to criticize Updike, but I don't think this is his best work.

Chris Lard chlard103794 — I can't finish this. It's so circular and so slow and so pointless... There are some brilliant lines and some interesting observations about human nature, but that's not enough for me to force myself to read this book.