__Strychnine Cain+
This is a SERIOUSLY GOOD BOOK. That title is not to be taken lightly, for only the rarest of literary gems recieve such a prestigious status. (The qualifications are strict and unforgiving: Classics such as the Odyssey and even most of Shakespeare's works will never be SERIOUSLY GOOD BOOKS. A SERIOUSLY GOOD BOOK is the kind of book that has romance, humor, and sadness in all the right places. Where you laugh out loud in one chapter and want to cry five pages later. The kind of book that you stay up until 2 am to finish, because you literally cannot put it down. I've found a few books like that: "The Day they Burned the Books." "The Giver." And of course, "Boy Meets Boy.")
*shrugs* I disagree. I think that Boy Meets Boy, while definitely one of the better teen books out there, can't compare to, say, Wicked or Three Junes. (Other books with gay themes that I think everybody should read.)
It's one of the author's better works, and the poetry imagery is very pretty, but to say it's better than Shakespeare really makes me wonder. I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare myself (I doubt I could ever understand enough seventeenth c. english to understand the sheer brillance of his language, and his characters and plots make me go sweatdrop ), but Shakespeare is the best of the best. The crowning achievement of civilization. The guy that all aspiring writers want to be like.
The Illiad and The Odyssey are not poems met to be taken lightly. I don't know Greek myself, but dude, people have been reading them for 4000 years. I think Homer did something right.
Sorry if you find this inappropriate for the situation at hand. I just had to defend Homer and Shakespeare.
