Ok, I give in

[epershand]

It's time for me to read Paradise Lost. What edition am I looking for?

Comments

[starlady]

Mine, i.e. Norton Critical 2nd ed. ed. Scott Elledge. He respects the rhetorical punctuation in the first 1.5 books!

[epershand]

Looks like the only copy of your edition at SFPL is in reference :( Are you coming to sassbandit's bday party, and if so, can I borrow your Milton?

[starlady]

You can borrow my Milton but not until WisCon, since it's in Jersey right now, and yes, I am coming to sassbandit's bday party.

[epershand]

Ok, I think I have sufficient patience to wait for WisCon. :) I don't think I'd figured out that its being in Jersey was why you'd been saying "I'll bring it to you at WisCon", I just thought that was the next time I'd see you /o\

Speaking of books I should be reading, is there a specific subset of The Dark is Rising I should take a look at? I'm definitely getting an itch to read The Dark is Rising itself but I'm not really up for Over Sea, Under Stone right now...

[starlady]

I think OSUS is pretty skippable, in all honesty. But the last four starting with The Dark Is Rising are awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, the coincident here is astounding. My friend in seminary just IMed me late last night saying the same thing...Great minds think alike?

I don't remember which edition I read in high school, but I don't think you can go too wrong. <3 Milton

[epershand]

<3 Milton!

[newredshoes]

I'm finding myself saying the same thing. Have you by any chance been watching the National productions of Frankenstein?

[epershand]

Hurrah, confluence! No, I haven't been watching Frankenstein (although: TELL ME MORE PLEASE!) The thing that pushed me over the edge was this conversation in the comments of another post

[newredshoes]

I'm not even much of a B. Cumberbatch devotee, but, uh, IT'S ASTONISHING. I saw Benedict as the Creature and Jonny Lee as the Doctor last Wednesday (a local theater is airing the filmed versions), and I'm seeing it with the roles reversed on Saturday, if I can get to the theater in time.

--ah, but! I don't know how much of this is from the original text, but the Creature learns to read on Paradise Lost, and is very very taken with it and monologizes on it quite a lot.

[epershand]

Oooooooh, my interest is definitely piqued. Your local theater is airing both versions? That is awesome.

[ungelic_is_us]

You're welcome to borrow my copy. I don't have it in front of me, so I can't remember which version, but it's a paperback with Paradise Regained and footnotes (I think). It was a used and has taken some abuse, and I don't mind if you put comments in the margins, so there's that advantage.

[epershand]

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm going to hold out for starlady's copy as she's managed to convince me it's the best one ever. :)

[oliviacirce]

If you can wait three weeks you can borrow my copy?

[epershand]

Well, if I can wait three weeks for your copy, I could also wait 4 weeks for starlady's copy. :P But what edition do you have?