It is that bad. I promise. I wouldn’t have been such a cranky blogger if it hadn’t really been that bad. It was that bad and worse.

Excellent metaphors. 😀 I’ve got another Shakespeare book on tap that I’ve been putting off reading because I think it’s going to be so great, and also because I wanted to have read all of Shakespeare’s plays before I read this book. But I might give up on that and just read it already.

Nothing can ruin Shakespeare! (she proclaimed) Except for possibly Taming of the Shrew, which has put me off my Shakespeare-reading project for nearly a year now. Definitely this book can’t do it. 🙂

But Litlove, I promise you it would have hurt so much more to read. It’s trying so hard to be accessible that it’s barely readable, which can’t be what Marche was going for. I hate the idea that being knowledgeable in your area is elitist — I mean you wouldn’t say that a biochemical engineer is elitist for knowing all about her area of expertise.

Yes! That’s what bothered me! I want to believe that Shakespeare changed everything, and I would only have needed a minimally plausible narrative in order to buy it! Hrmph.

I haven’t seen that many Shakespeare T-shirts full-stop. I’m sure they exist, I just haven’t seen them, apart from, I suppose, at the Globe store.

I miss the days when I could love Malcolm Gladwell, before he said lots of ill-considered insults to Atticus Finch. 🙁