A review by jammasterjamie
The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett

3.0

Well, having already read Waiting for Godot, I was expecting my dive into more of Beckett's writing to be a little depressing, but I wasn't expecting it to be so disappointing. Godot is fantastic and really draws that old feeling of existential angst to the forefront and never lets go. Endgame was decent, but placed so closely to Godot in this collection and having its emotional centre in such a similar vein, it just felt like maybe a little too much of the same. Happy Days was a standout and a great little story. The rest of this collection is uneven at best, and I get that Beckett was experimenting in extreme minimalism in his later years, but man, it really wasn't for me and there were some passages I found to be downright unreadable. To sum up, strong start, vomitous finish.