Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Why can't we study this in school?

I am not one for plays, and I thought this was wonderful. Shakespeare gets old, especially in school, where all you read are his tragedies; they are so dull (we all know that at least two people die per tragedy (four in the case of Hamlet)). So...I read this for fun. The writing is wonderful and so is the plot. Cyrano just makes you want to be impulsive and a little violent after you see the wonderful time he has. I wish I knew a guy who was so quick-witted (yeah right) and so fearless in a still, sort-of-sane kind of way. He also reminds you that there are still truly faithful people in this world, a lesson which I think would do well to be preached in school (far better than the repetitive brow-beating with death and infidelity; Great Gatsby, anyone?)

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Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts

I found this book to be particuarly wonderful. It was wholesome, funny, and had a interesting, captivating plot. It had a certain quality that, once you began to read, anything else that was the slightest distraction became a huge hiderance. This book made me think, which is something that I, personally, look for in a book. Everything from the language to the historical French referances to the detailed format and all over details in the story made me invision the time and see the wonderful French culture that the characters expierenced. I would highly reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys the classics, wants to get into a good book, and likes a little challenge in the language. I read this for Honors English 9 and it was fairly easy, aside from maybe the 4 or 5 times i had to pop out the Merriem-Webster ;) I hope someone will take my advice and read this amazing piece of historical literature. Happy reading!

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A Must Read for Theatre Buffs

I saw a little bit of the Steve Martin version of the play (Roxane), and my father explained the story to me, and later that week at a bookstore, I saw it, and read it for twenty minutes, and was hooked!

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Awesome book!

I really enjoyed this book. I couldn't stop reading, could never find the right place to stop. Cyrano de Bergerac had an unusual but unique and 'page-turning' balance of tragedy, comedy, and romance. I admit, the story caught me off guard a few times and I was having a hard time following, but over-all I really enjoyed it and I definitely recommend it to anyone interested, and even those of you who aren't!

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Poorly copied

The guy that copied this did a bad job: random symbols and uppercase letters were common on every page, with the phrase "Digitized by Google" interrupting the text in random places every few pages. It was extremely distracting and not worth trying to ignore while reading. Good thing it was free.

Hard to read

I'm not sure if I don't know french well enough, or if the copying was just plain bad. I can hardly understand what was going on, and the "digitized by google" kept popping up and confusing me. Good thing this was free.

Good Choice for High School Sophomores.

I read this book in my tenth grade english class, and I have to say that it was a great way to display all of the types of love, from the pettiest to the most real. The only disappointment I have with this book is that the end was really pointless to me. It didn't make sense that things should have happened the way they did. (I dont want to give away the end for anyone that has yet to read it) I am not saying that everything should be a perfect fairy tale, just some other ending would have sufficed more so than the actual finale. Overall, this book is suitable for the mentioned age group, and it is a good way to teach a lesson in what love really is at a high school age.

Fail

Not good quality not good spacing and text wad blurred.

Prodigiously Diverting

Cyrano De Bergerac combines wit, intelligence, beautiful poetry, sweet romance, swashbuckling adventure, and delicious tragedy, played out by delightfully colourful characters.

"I carry my adornments on my soul"

The first time I read this was years and years ago, and while I enjoyed it, I was really too young to absorb much more than the basic storyline. My second encounter with Cyrano, however, came over IHOP pancakes as a good friend of mine read the entire play aloud, complete with voices and director's asides about stage setting and the actors. An unforgettable experience, certainly, but as amazing as it was, it was still truly Cyrano's story that gripped me. And it was Brian Hooker's translation---gorgeous, lush, evocative---that brought the play to stirring, poignant life. Cyrano de Bergerac is a beautiful piece, and I have no doubt threads of its story and its words will stay with me for a long time to come.

Awesome Play

This play is entertaining and comical

Cyrano De Bergerac

This book was so amazing. I fully recommend it to all ages. It shows that beauty, while nice to look at is not as important as brains and heart. Cyrano is truely a figure to admire. He loves Roxane, and because the feeling is not mutual. He acts as a secret lover. He works to make her happy, while no benifits come back to him. His nobal nature exeeds all others.

Cyrano de Burgerac

I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody unless you are really into plays. The dialogue is very confusing and is poorly translated. In my opinion, this was not a very good book.

Good play overall

I didn't really like this play as much as I thought I would. In the begining it was a little confusing due to the fact that it had too many characters. I couldn't keep track with all them. After I went and read it in a quite place and concentrated I started understanding. It was smart by the author to add some comedy in the play. It was really funny how they were calling someone fat, but didn't actually say fat. They called him 'monster belly', 'king of obese'. Overall it was a good book but because it was too romantic, I recommend seeing the play rather than reading it. There is a movie about this play called 'Roxanne' with Steve Martin that was very good.

Great Book

i had to read this book for summer reading for school and i love it. It has a lot of drama in it and keeps you interested. Cyrano and Christian create a person who is not real and roxanne falls in love with him. Christian and Cyrano go to war in the book you will survive?

Summer Reading Review

The book was okay but the acting seemed very good when I read this book with someone else. I recommended this book to people who like drama or classics.

too much

it was okay, I mean, I guess I got into it, but with the old-timey language it just got confusing. I couldn't figure out why he started fencing the guy that was way too random for me, but all in all it was okay

Interesting Story

This book was overall ok. At times it was a bit confusing, however for the most part I found it entertaining. Taylor 'S' 8-12-08

Summer reading review

Cyrano de Bergerac was a very well written play by a French novolist named Edmond Rostand. The book starts out with Cyrano 'Main character' trying to get a beautiful woman 'Roxanne' to fall in love with him. But this turns out to be a much harder challenge than it was first recieved to be. This is because he has an abnormally large noise that just happens to be very unattractive. Continuing his efforts at a relationship with roxanne he begins to write poetry for her. That is where my review of the book will stop though because I dont want to give away to much info on the plot. In conclusion it was an okay book from my perspective.

Cyrano de Bergerac

This book was very good, but at times it's hard to understand. It made me laugh a lot, but it also sometimes was a little depressing. I liked how the story was in play form. It made the story go a lot faster and easier to read.