Romeo & Juliet

     Ok, I know that a lot of you will probably think I'm completely insane, but I actually think that Romeo and Juliet could make a great pleasure reading book. Even if you aren't required to read it for high school, or a college course, or whatever, I think that a person should make the effort to read it at some point in their life.

“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

I came across this quote on Goodreads and thought that this pretty well summed up my point. EVERYBODY learns and knows the basic plot of Romeo and Juliet; They meet, they marry, they die... pretty straightforward. But you don't KNOW the characters until you have actually read the play. You don't realize all the wit and irony Shakespeare wove throughout the pages, as if knowing that one day this would be a renowned and studied work.

All I'm saying is that you shouldn't always just write off a book like you already know it, until you've taken the time to actually read it!