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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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bookshelves: 1001-books, all-around-the-world, quick-reads, the-serious-lit
Jan 10, 2014
bookshelves: 1001-books, all-around-the-world, quick-reads, the-serious-lit
I couldn't help but imagine young Werther as a high school, tweeting about all his troubles to the ether. So, without further ado, I present to you: The Tweets of Young Werther.
This is the kind of book that high school teachers should be making self-absorbed teenagers read. They can totally relate, both to the intense feelings of emotion and the complete conviction that no one in the world has ever felt the same way before. I couldn't relate that well, because really Werther just needs to man up and bang someone else, but I still (inexplicably) liked this book. Actually, my affection is explicable: we're talking about Goethe, after all.
I should really step away from photoshop and get back to work.
This is the kind of book that high school teachers should be making self-absorbed teenagers read. They can totally relate, both to the intense feelings of emotion and the complete conviction that no one in the world has ever felt the same way before. I couldn't relate that well, because really Werther just needs to man up and bang someone else, but I still (inexplicably) liked this book. Actually, my affection is explicable: we're talking about Goethe, after all.
I should really step away from photoshop and get back to work.
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Jan 16, 2014 09:27AM
Wow! If my young cousins learned some grammar and punctuation and how to employ metaphor, I wouldn't mind looking at Facebook so much!
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I agree that I would really like my young cousins to be much more like Goethe. This should be a priority for the US education system!
This is the best thing in the world.
Your mom is lame and unfunny, Jordie, and also I banged her.
Great, GREAT review! Your time on PS is well spent and appreciated.
He did "man up" and "bang somebody else". It didn't work.
I'm not sure about teenagers reading this novel, presenting an easy solution for their troubled lives...
Salty. #leavewertheralone #teenagelivesmatter
I can relate to Werther. I felt like him in school so much
Great review! Love the tweets. Lol!
I didn't think about teenagers point of view on this book, your review is interesting, Casey, great one!
The tweets are great! Read this in college or grad school--don't think I'd go there again.
Looks annoying when these words comes with tweets.
So Werthur is like a teenage girl with a very large vocabulary.
LoL!!! Great job in photoshop. Somone needs to tweet it for real. With hashtags and emojis 👌🥳😅
I'm currently reading Werther, and to my surprise, I am actually enjoying it. I guess I like reading about teenagers complaining about their boring lives (as a teen I totally relate lol) because my favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye,. What many people deslike about it is exactly what I enjoyed the most.
I don't think that teenagers should read this novel. Goethe shows us that there's a solution for the problems that may appear in our lives: suicide. In fact, he even presents suicide in a romanticized way. I'm a high school teacher in a school located in a "problematic" neighborhood and I wouldn't ask my students to read that. I really like this bool however I strongly believe that it presents an "easy/quick" solution for problems we may face in live.
This is a bad review. You told me nothing about the book except that you think it could be used as a mental torture device for teenagers. You tell us that the protagonist should “man up� but what does that mean? All I learned from this review is about YOU and your misanthropy.
This isn't funny or cute. Keep your thoughtless posts to Twitter, not ŷ. I agree with M. Milburn's comment. Your review doesn't fairly address the novel as a whole and only screams "haha I'm funny, give me clout." Also, "Man up and bang someone else?" You actually sound like quite the high schooler yourself...Don't humor yourself too much; I severely doubt this book is assigned in any high school curriculum. I've only heard of it being assigned once at my old college for a college course that specifically focused on European Romanticism...
