Reviews for Major Barbara: Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition

The average rating for Major Barbara: Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-04-28 00:00:00 Joseph Binger 7/4/19 edit: Haha, sooooo..... apparently this is the most popular review I've posted here on Goodreads. I'm leaving it up because a handful of people seemed to have enjoyed it, but let's just say, well, eight years have passed, and I now find my own analysis of this play and its author... lacking. (understatement is a literary virtue, right?) Still kinda proud of myself for rhyming "God" with "facade", though, like that was actually almost inspired right there. -- A Marxist play. What more can I say? Shaw's one of a kind, And he had a great mind, But he used it to say That he'd found a way To live without truth - He believed it, forsooth! He fought against God, And built his facade By claiming that reason Was funding his treason. He poked at all morals And fueled all his quarrels With words smooth as honey - In short, he was funny! It's not hard to mock Or even to shock, But for all his jeering His methods are queering, For Shaw fails to show Why his strange credo Is any more valid Than potato salad! Okay so that's stretching The truth just a bit- But what does it matter? So long as it's wit? If only it's funny And makes people laugh What matter if I call A duck a giraffe? It's just the old prejudice Of people long gone To call this a verse Instead of a stone! So, this is the bone That I pick with Shaw He tells us we're stupid And so is our law. He doesn't prove why His ways are better And if we object He tells us we're fretters. But I think that his Are the ways that are puerile You dare ask me why? You're just an imbecile!

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-17 00:00:00 Mario Stanisic A witty but devastatingly subversive play which mocks Christianity in general and the Salvation Army in particular. And as is always the case with Shaw, it comes with a long-winded, preachy preface designed to hammer home the author's ideology, just in case the stupid reader did not get it from the play.