Reviews for The Klingon Hamlet

The average rating for The Klingon Hamlet based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-27 00:00:00 Adrian Parker An diesem Buch können sich wohl nur absolute Nerds ihre Freude haben, entweder gehört man zu absoluten Shakespeare-Fans, die alles aufsaugen, was mit dem Meister angefangen wird, oder man ist des Klinonisch mächtig, so dass man den Hamlet komplett auf klingonisch rezitieren kann, absolut nerdisch... Die Anmerkungen literarischer und linguistischer Art sind etwas für absolute Experten, dem gemeinen Fan ist dieses Buch nicht zu raten...

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-13 00:00:00 Russell Smith How fun to have a parallel edition with the English text of Hamlet on the left page and the corresponding Klingon text of Khamlet on the right page! Then in the back are the textual notes because when the humans stole the work for themselves, they made various changes to fit peculiarities of human culture. Face it, humans are wimps compared to Klingons! And humans have no sense of operatic drama. As far as the story goes, this is a tale in which nearly all of the characters are supposed to be noble, but most of the deaths are dishonorable. How can these schemers and back-stabbers even claim to be Klingon? They have no place in Sto-vo-kor! Fortunately, there are a few deaths that are glorious and honorable. They stir the heart. Another fun part of reading this play is that so many of the speeches and archaic phrases have come into the collective memory of a large number of people. Even the human version has a certain amount of memorable verses. School children should memorize these and their elders should review them often. Modern readers should pepper their conversation with terms such as "Odds bodkin!" Our lives would be so much the richer. Do you want a book that will be worth the time you spend on it, even though it takes you away from weapons practice and other worthwhile activities? Then this is a book you should read.