A review by hetauuu
Hamlet by Nicki Greenberg, William Shakespeare

4.0

I'm not gonna be writing really in-depth reviews for books I'm reading for class, but I do intend on writing a little bit down on all my uni reads as well. I really enjoyed reading Hamlet. Who wouldn't love reading about a grown man who has the introspective skills and emotional control of an emo teen from the MySpace era? I say that with love, of course, as Hamlet is one of the best characters I've ever read about. Oh, the melodrama, boo hoo, my mother is a whore and the female sex is wretched, my uncle is a narcissistic pig and my father's ghost is my only comfort. I rolled my eyes so much every time I saw the words "enter Hamlet", but I did it lovingly so. Then there is a villain like Claudius, so cunning and evil you can hear him tapping his fingers against each other while coming up with yet another plan to mess with his poor nephew. I was sitting out here lapping up his pure evil that was practically seeping through his skin. We've got Gertrude out here pretending to be a good and caring mom when she actually just wants validation and power. Not to mention Laertes who doesn't want Hamlet to have his sister because his creepy ass wants to have her instead. Poor Ophelia. I'd drown myself too.
I'm surprised at how quickly I managed to get the gist of reading this, considering I don't really read texts that aren't in modern English, let alone plays, which I don't enjoy reading at all. But once you get sucked into this fantastic story, you barely even notice those things. This is my first time reading Shakespeare, though I have seen adaptations of two of his plays, and it was a great experience.