This book was a really good book. I was surprised to find that the musical "My Fair Lady" was really very true to the Pygmalion storyline. It is a very funny book, and I think it was very clever of George Bernard Shaw to actually use phonetics to show how Eliza speaks. It's quite funny. I recommend reading it, even if its just for the heck of it. ( )

The fact that much of the dialoge and for that matter much of the stage directions from My Fair Lady are taken directly from Pygmalion makes reading the two of them together simultaneously an interesting comparison and kind of rendundant. (My Fair Lady does have one unique stage direction which is possibly the single best since Shakespeare wrote "Exits, pursued by bear." That line is "The crowd pulls out the stopper and has a whopper.") ( )