Monday, February 7, 2011

Amadeus- Peter Shaffer

This is the first book I'm going to blog about (obviously), but the funny thing is, it's not even a novel, it's a play. But I'm still counting it.

I read this book for a class, and, surprisingly, I still really enjoyed it. It's a play that on the surface, seems to center around Mozart's life and his music, but is really about Salieri, a composer of the same generation who is driven mad with jealously that God had given a person like Mozart that kind of talent, and didn't give it to him.

I'm in the process of watching the movie as well, and we are watching it in class, but since I'll be gone for some of it, I'm watching it on my own time as well. It does take some time, considering it's a three hour movie.

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