CableLight
Master Don Juan
Anyone read Paradise Lost? I finally got around to reading it and wasn't really impressed.
Milton took basic ideas from the bible and basically added conversations and textual details to it. I know a lot of it's fabricated but it doesn't seem like he really created anything too amazing...at least, not worthy of the "aura" that seems to go with this book.
I mean, I finished it and just kinda said "Okay..." through most of it. I'm not saying it was boring, it just wasn't anything great. It felt kind of like reading Grendel, the story some guy (forgot the name) wrote about the monster in Beowulf. He took and idea that was already established and just made some filler details for it. From a reading perspective it isn't bad, but it's like watching a spinoff show of a popular TV series, ya know?
Anyone else feel this way?
Milton took basic ideas from the bible and basically added conversations and textual details to it. I know a lot of it's fabricated but it doesn't seem like he really created anything too amazing...at least, not worthy of the "aura" that seems to go with this book.
I mean, I finished it and just kinda said "Okay..." through most of it. I'm not saying it was boring, it just wasn't anything great. It felt kind of like reading Grendel, the story some guy (forgot the name) wrote about the monster in Beowulf. He took and idea that was already established and just made some filler details for it. From a reading perspective it isn't bad, but it's like watching a spinoff show of a popular TV series, ya know?
Anyone else feel this way?