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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “In certain respects, Anais Nin is the greatest writer I've ever known. In her diaries, she shows a talent for simultaneously writing and living in a way I always aspired to, but never could achieve. |
Didn’t Like It “Nin makes Linda Lovelace look like an amateur. She likes the good times, even with family members.....very unsettling.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“beautifully written journal of an extraordinary woman”
alison mackie wrote this review Friday, July 17 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“One of my all time favorites. Highly recommended to anyone who loves to stimulate all sense whilst reading.”
bookwormsyracuse wrote this review Sunday, January 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“In certain respects, Anais Nin is the greatest writer I've ever known. In her diaries, she shows a talent for simultaneously writing and living in a way I always aspired to, but never could achieve.
Alexander B wrote this review Sunday, October 26 2008. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I've never taken photos when traveling, or really take much photos at all. I always found the act of stepping outside a situation in order to capture it for posterity was always too disruptive to being in the experience. I don't like stepping out of it. It kills what's happening.
Anais Nin shows herself to be a master of doing both at the same time. Her first volume, particularly if you can get the unexpurgated version (now that she passed away and many of her subjects, too) has some of her best writing and most controversial activities. She has an intensely poetic, and sometimes high-surrealism to her writing, yet it is always grounded in the facts and moments of her life, which you'll find she lives out VERY fully. Her diary is full of life, her adventures, her explorations, her many-faceted talents, interests, and relationships. And all the while she is living it, she is recording it with great insight, beauty, sincerity, poetry, and sense of seeking.
I read her voraciously at the time, hoping her talent would infect me for being so much in the moment and adventures of life, while simultaneously being so outside of it, looking in, describing, speculating, and making art from it. I never found the balance (or talent) she had, but always think of her as a penultimate exemplar of high, beautiful, rich, right living.”“Nin makes Linda Lovelace look like an amateur. She likes the good times, even with family members.....very unsettling.”
Johnie S wrote this review Friday, May 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I only added the first volume to my shelf, but I've read and re-read them all. Nin's diaries are not always easy reading, but provide such a unobstructed view into the heart, mind and life of an artist that they are well worth the effort. She was truly an unusual (and not always likable) woman. Obsessed with herself, her lovers, and her immediate surroundings, her writing in infused with incredible detail. ”
Lorraine M wrote this review Thursday, January 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“'there is not one big cosmic meaning
mundivagant wrote this review Friday, December 28 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
for all, there is only the meaning we each
give our life, an individual meaning,
an individual plot, like an individual novel,
a book for each person.'”“I am a fan of Anais Nin. How openly she lived and experimented. She had desires and passions which she was willing to reveal and pursue...
Alka R wrote this review Monday, November 12 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I liked the earlier diaries more than. The later ones became more reflective and self-involved in a different way all together. She is definitely one of the most fascinating characters...”
“I've read almost all of Anais Nin's diaries. Another master of prose. She has an uncanny ability to spark epiphany after epiphany. I'm truly a fan of prose because I don't like structure.”
Feloni's Official Shelfari wrote this review Sunday, October 28 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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