Ray, Michelle. Falling for Hamlet. New York: Hachette, 2011. Falling for Hamlet is a novel that resets Hamlet in a modern era and tells it from Ophelia's perspective. I read some of this novel—the tagline ("First Comes Love, Then Comes Madness") is intriguing, after all—but I never really got very far in it. One of the sections I managed to read contained, on page 155, the following text message from Laertes to Ophelia:
You may, if you wish, click on the image below to enlarge that page and to read a bit more. That's about where I put the book down, hoping time would fortify me for the rest. Even to my untrained ears, that rang false. It just didn't sound authentic.Laertes: R u stupid? what did I say?
Instead of finishing the book and writing a brief review of it, I'll point you all toward the reason I didn't feel a need to finish reading it. Try this astonishingly-funny and magnificently-detailed review by one of the good people of Pursued by a Bear (also embedded below). The reviewer is in the book's target demographic, and she is delightfully-scathing in revealing her thoughts about its inauthenticity.
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I am lucky enough to have Michelle Ray as my Literature and the humanities teacher!!!!!! She is so nice and I love this book!
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