Having heard about the movie, I got interested into reading. Does anyone know where I can pre-order it from amazon.com?
So I wanna read Beowulf…
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Beowulf is in the public domain, I believe.
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Wow thanks!
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The book isn't really that long, so if you want to, just go to a cheap second hand book store, you can get it for like a few bucks if you like it a lot.
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It's a good book. I remeber sophmore year we had too read it, and people hated it. Nearly 97% of my grade level failed the Beowulf test.
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I was the first thing my seventh-grade language arts teacher (who, along with One Piece, made that year not suck) read to us. And it was all right. Her voices well reeading it and her fluctuation I shall never forget.
That year was wonderful.
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We had to read this book for Honor's English (but it was a version that had a lot cut out)…It was kinda good.
J.R.R. Tolkien got alot of insipiration from that to create LOTR.
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The Seamus Haney translation is probably the most readable Modern English version, though it has less of a rhythmic meter than other, earlier attempts. And it's not free. But it is bilingual, so maybe you'd pick up a bit of the language in the process?
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LOL Beowulf.
I bombed the final test on that wretched book this past year. Too many names that begin with vowels. I sorta just guessed on the things that weren't Beowulf, Hrunting, or Grendel. >_>
Ironically, it is the only book that I accidently kept from English class.
