Romeo & Juliet Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Star-crossed lover - Romeo & Juliet were had their kismet that they meet, fall in love with each other(Romantic love)and end up with the death. What a great story! :) "

" Studied in High School. Required. "

" I'm not romantic enough, I hate the exaggeration in the story, I tried reading it in the original text but I continued in modern text starting from Act III .. anyway I'll try to read it again later, maybe I'll love and feel this over-dramatic story. "

" Basically, Romeo and Juliet is a book directly based in Compton, Los Angeles in the 80's, during the crack epidemic. Romeo, a crip, and Juliet, a blood, fall in love with each other after the NWA Block Party, which Romeo went to in order to meet his old girlfriend, Rosaline. Their forbidden love causes many problems, with accidental drive by shootings and tongue in cheek humor inserted multiple times. Romeo accidentally shoots Juliet's set leader because the set leader, Tybalt, accidentally killed Mercutio Loc, a member in Romeo's set. After the heat tries to get at Romeo, the leader of the neighborhood church arranges to fake Juliet's death in order to let Romeo and Juliet live in San Francisco. The plan goes wrong, with Romeo not getting the message, who then kills Juliet's other boyfriend and commit's suicide in grief. Juliet subsequently then commits suicide after discovering Romeo's body. The crips and bloods then reconcile and merge their gangs in order to fight the latin kings who are coming to Los Angeles. In summary, okay book with predictable plot. "

" William Shakespeare is amazing writer. I really love this book. although sad ending, but character romeo and juliet make me feel 'I cant give up anything until my last breath'... "

" Not my favorite Shakespeare. But it's ok. "

" 3.5.... kinda depressing but these people are REALLY stupid sometimes... "

" My second favorite book, favorite movie (Zefferelli version!). And my favorite book and second favorite movie is To Kill A Mockingbird. "

" <5 = more love than <3 xD "

" Classic story, with a good mix of comedy and tragedy once you get past the language :) "

" Weeeeeelllllllll. It was oay, not my genre of book. But alas, it'll make do. "

" It was difficult but good "

" A romantic book about two people who love each other but their love is forbidden. "

" One of the assigned school reading that I enjoyed "

" Overrated drama...but it is also studded with brilliant metaphors. "

" Not so keen on Romeo and Juliet anymore, it'll never replace, A midsummer night's dream. But I stiall appreciate, the language and those words I have discovered. "

" I have never cared for the end. Really? Suicide is your only answer? Talk about teen angst!!! "

" i thought this book was pretty boring and hard to understand. "

" Lovely story of two doomed lovers. "

" I enjoy Shakespeare just for the beauty of the writing and the complexity of the relationships. "

" why was she 13? and he was 17? so dumb. "

" Its no shock that dumb people only view this play as a love between a boy and a girl. But some of us actually get what the book is really about. "

" Pretty good but not amazing! "

" This book was just ridiculous. The timing of everything just made me mad... sorry shakespeare. "

" Sorry, couldn't give this one anything better. The verbiage is too frustrating and *spoiler* They die at the end. No one should want to be Romeo and Juliet. "

" I'm sorry, but I just can't follow Shakespeare's writing. "

" I re-read Romeo and Juliet before I taught it to 9th graders this quarter. It's interesting how our perspectives change...as a young teenager, I reveled in the poetic soliloquies of the love-drunk protagonists, but as a young adult, I sided with the logical, realistic Friar. "

" I loved reading this. I think it's the story that everybody knows the basics of. It was easy to undertstand with the translations on the other page. It really is a must read "

" A necessary book to read as prep for CLEP.... I do not recommend reading...very depressing in a funny kind of way. "

" Read in high school and my young mind could not understand Shakespearean writing unless it was explained to me. But I did appreciate its timelessness and tradgedy. "

" A little too much rhyming and a lame but somewhat realistic story-line. "

" Still The Standard for love stories "