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oofym's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Will definitely need to come back to this one in a year or two. What I read and understood was great, but in all honesty alot of it flew over my head. Each letter tackles a different question of life, and I feel like my brain only had the storage to take in a couple of the letters meanings, definitely more of a philosophical experience than I was expecting.
I feel like the more I re-read this the more I'll like it, for now it's a 3.5 but I've got a gut feeling it deserves a higher rating than that.
I feel like the more I re-read this the more I'll like it, for now it's a 3.5 but I've got a gut feeling it deserves a higher rating than that.
endymions_rage's review against another edition
5.0
Motivational Letters to a lonely, depressive Soldier who is a poet. Surprisingly warm, philosophical, anti-depressant, anti-loneliness mini-essays touching on what it means to be an artist, to be alone, to overcome things and to love. Also a hint of feminism.
(freely translated:)
..."maybe all the Dragons of our Life are princesses, just waiting for us to stand beautiful and brave before them.
Maybe everything terrible is just in its core something helpless that needs our support."
(freely translated:)
..."maybe all the Dragons of our Life are princesses, just waiting for us to stand beautiful and brave before them.
Maybe everything terrible is just in its core something helpless that needs our support."
aurora7's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
patterry's review against another edition
5.0
"...the only advice I have is this: to go into yourself to examine the depths from which your life springs..."
This small compilation of letters sat unread for too long on my bookshelf, but I think I read it when I needed it most.
This small compilation of letters sat unread for too long on my bookshelf, but I think I read it when I needed it most.
cam_paz's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
woolfnabokov's review against another edition
5.0
I never know how to rate books when they’re made up of letters, for what will i judge it by? these were all directed to Mr Kappus hundreds of years ago and malamang I am not Mr Kappus so I don’t have the right to critique something not meant for me