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My Name Is Will (2008)

by Jess Winfield(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0446508853 (ISBN13: 9780446508858)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Twelve

review 1: Alright, I'm not going to lie. This book was a little weird. Fair warning, it alternates chapters. Every other chapter is about Willie and the others are about William Shakespeare. I was not prepared for that at first and got a little confused for the first two to three chapters (requiring me to go back and re-read them once I figured out what the hell was going on).All that aside, I liked the beginning and the end, but the middle was a little trippy and farfetched, not to mention a tad convoluted at times. I will say this though, the title does NOT lie. This is a book of sex, drugs, & Shakespeare. Mostly, it's about drugs, then Shakespeare. The sex is just sort of sprinkled through out.Anyway, the book was good. It wasn't one of my favorites, but I definitely enjoyed it. ... moreIt was funny and raunchy and interesting all rolled up into one novel. Seriously though, the middle is weird. I'm pretty sure it wasn't only the characters who were trippin' during this story.
review 2: This is subtitled: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare.I bought this book while sorting at the library for its annual book sale. My intention was to give it to Tom Schaller or Larry Kreger who lead and chair our MUM Shakespeare Club. There's so much sex in the book that I'm rather leary to do this now.It's kin of interesting the way it's written because the chapters take turns dealing with two parallel coming of age stories. One is the historical W.S. at age 18, and the other is a 26 year old college student doing his master's thesis on Shakespeare. Also his name is William Shakespeare Greenberg. He wants to do his thesis on W.S. being a Catholic. less

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