January '07 Reading: G.B. Shaw

[Scheherazade]

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In January, we will be reading a book by George Bernard Shaw who said:
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The aim of the Book Club is to read and discuss new books together with other members.

Please try to avoid from voting for the books you have already read and/or do not intend to (re)read with us.

Thank you! :)

Man and Superman (http://www.amazon.com/Superman-Penguin-Classics-George-Bernard/dp/0140437886/sr=8-3/qid=1164909471/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-6011999-9780850?ie=UTF8&s=books)*

Pygmalion (http://www.amazon.com/Pygmalion-Thrift-Editions-George-Bernard/dp/0486282228/sr=8-5/qid=1164909471/ref=pd_bbs_5/002-6011999-9780850?ie=UTF8&s=books)*

Three Plays for Puritans: "The Devil's Disciple","Caesar and Cleopatra","Captain Brassbound's Conversion" (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Plays-Puritans-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140437924/sr=8-9/qid=1164909471/ref=pd_bbs_9/002-6011999-9780850?ie=UTF8&s=books)*

Plays Pleasant: "Arms and the Man; Candida; the Man of Destiny; You Never Can Tell" (http://www.amazon.com/Pleasant-Penguin-Classics-George-Bernard/dp/0140437940/sr=8-1/qid=1164909785/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6011999-9780850?ie=UTF8&s=books)*

Plays Unpleasant: "Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer, and, Mrs Warren's Profession" (http://www.amazon.com/Unpleasant-Penguin-Classics-George-Bernard/dp/0140437932/sr=8-1/qid=1164909891/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6011999-9780850?ie=UTF8&s=books)*



Book Club Procedures (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=57103#post57103)

[SleepyWitch]

early witch catches the worm :)
I've voted :)

[Nightshade]

well I know what Im voting for, although think Ive read all of them but the plays for puritans I want the plays pleasent:nod:

[Schokokeks]

hmm, I know what I would want to vote for, but I don't know whether I'll have time in January. So I'll wait until my schedule is clearer :D.

[aeroport]

So, um, maybe this is a dumb question and there is just something here I don't know, but...well, is the choice here between doing one play, another play, or any of three complete sets of plays? The length difference has me slightly confused...

[Pensive]

I have got Pygmalion at home, the only book by Bernard Shaw, so voted for it. Any more votes for a what-seem-to-be-a-really-good-play? :p

[Nightshade]

Well I might have voted for pygmalion Im actually a bit suprised scher didnt---think about it read Pygmalion then watch My Fair Lady and throw popcorn at the screen because they changed the ending. Im much prefer Pygmalion to my fair lady I was dissapointed when I first saw MFL But I was soo happy when I discovered Pyg that had the ending I wanted! :nod:

[Virgil]

The plays (Major Barbara and Saint Joan) I was interested aren't up there. What should I vote for?

[Nightshade]

Major Barbra, thast the one with tthe salvation army isnt it??

[Virgil]

Major Barbra, thast the one with tthe salvation army isnt it??

It was that type of thing. I guess it was the salvation army or something similar.

[Scheherazade]

So, um, maybe this is a dumb question and there is just something here I don't know, but...well, is the choice here between doing one play, another play, or any of three complete sets of plays? The length difference has me slightly confused...The groups of plays listed are as they were published originally so I did not want to disturb that order. When put together, those three plays are still not any longer than any other novel we read.
Well I might have voted for pygmalion Im actually a bit suprised scher didnt---I have read Pygmalion and watched MFL so many times that I didn't want to vote for it again (they are very very special to me).

[aeroport]

Well, the idea of doing three or four plays sounds like a lot of fun, but I really want to read Man and Superman. Think I'm gonna hold off on voting a while longer, though...

[grace86]

Well I might have voted for pygmalion Im actually a bit suprised scher didnt---think about it read Pygmalion then watch My Fair Lady and throw popcorn at the screen because they changed the ending. Im much prefer Pygmalion to my fair lady I was dissapointed when I first saw MFL But I was soo happy when I discovered Pyg that had the ending I wanted! :nod:

Both of those come from an even older version of Pygmalion in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

My vote is for Pygmalion

[Pensive]

Both of those come from an even older version of Pygmalion in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

My vote is for Pygmalion

Yay! :banana:

Any more people as good as Grace has been? :p

[Logos]

Just wanted to say... all the plays being voted for (except Widower's Houses from Plays Unpleasant, his first play and I can't find an etext) are available on the site now :D

[Virgil]

Yay! :banana:

Any more people as good as Grace has been? :p

I may, Pensy. But I'll wait a little while longer. I'm pursuadable. :) If not even bribable. :D

[grace86]

Glad to know I made your day Pensy.

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[SleepyWitch]

wow, look at the perfect symmetry of those votes:
1
3
0
3
1

[Nightshade]

umm whats going???

[Virgil]

What the heck. I'll tip the scales.

[SleepyWitch]

now you've destroyed it, Virgil!
:)

[Scheherazade]

Going twice...

[Pensive]

Yay! I hope we will read Pygmalion. :) I got to search my book shelf now. :D

[papayahed]

Another vote I missed.

[Adolescent09]

I loved George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in the 8th grade and loved it.

[Mugwump101]

So, which one are we reading?/ going to read? Or am I a little too late in this -.-'

[Virgil]

So, which one are we reading?/ going to read? Or am I a little too late in this -.-'

Mugwump, it's Pygmalion. We've already started discssions, here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21318.

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