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roisinsreading's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
taylormcneil's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
This is an astoundingly profound book on the nature of presence and meaning. Not an easy read, but moving and intense. It is in a class of its own -- there is nothing else is like it.
sinogaze's review against another edition
5.0
There's something here... a deeply settled grief, an undercurrent of fear. Hopefulness and depression. I feel so deeply seen. I feel so deeply.
lika7m's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
4.0
emosheeran's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
"I don’t know what I’m writing about: I am obscure to myself. I only had initially a lunar and lucid vision, and so I plucked for myself the instant before it died and perpetually dies. This is not a message of ideas that I am transmitting to you but an instinctive ecstasy of whatever is hidden in nature and that I foretell. And this is a feast of words. I write in signs that are more a gesture than voice. All this is what I got used to painting, delving into the intimate nature of things. But now the time to stop painting has come in order to remake myself, I remake myself in these lines. I have a voice. As I throw myself into the line of my drawing, this is an exercise in life without planning. The world has no visible order and all I have is the order of my breath. I let myself happen."
I think there's something really special about someone letting you see their pure thoughts at the very instant they were written. I loved this a lot.
I think there's something really special about someone letting you see their pure thoughts at the very instant they were written. I loved this a lot.
miwqua's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5