The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2 (1934-1939)
by Anaïs Nin
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The book falls apart in my hands. Its as if no one has read it for 40 years. The pages have turned yellow brown with age and stiffened with coldness. It’s brittle and frozen. It comes undone in my hands as if the sheer touch of it is too much to handle. It is overwhelmed. Has it waited out death for 4o years to die in warmth? But I cannot allow this. I will not aid in the murdering of something once so beautiful and filled with a thousand lives. The pages fall off like the hair of a chemo pati...more
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
Any intelligent person
Rather than talk about what I learned, I just wanted to warn people that before buying these books they should check to see whether it is the "censored" or "unexpurgated" version. I didn't know and bought 3 "censored" volumes (this was because people she mentioned were still living at the time of publication. Republishing was the full version. These are still worth reading if you can find the uncensored ones...
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This ought to be read in the fall, sitting on a bench in Thompkins Square Park (in the East Village), while sipping on an Americano from 9th Street Espresso. Ideally you'll be resting your feet on a skateboard. Or maybe that's just me.
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Read in May, 2008
Knowing about the life of Anais Nin, I can only regard this work as utter fiction. Her adolescent and arrogant delusions are at times amusing, other times embarrassing. Yet there is something interesting.....
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Read in January, 2005
Again- best life ever? It's fun to live through her vicariously. And you do feel a little like you are doing something bad by reading someone's diary...it's awesome
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Read in January, 2005
recommends it for:
Nin fans, Miller fans, the obscene
That she (Nin), wrote so prolifically for so long, and lived an extraordinary life all the while, makes this a great read-knowing you can keep learning more.
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Read in July, 2006
She is a completely self-absorbed peacock, but she sure constructs beautiful, perfect sentences. And, if it is even half true, she had quite the life...
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Her writing is pure, honest. Fascinatingly intimate glimpse into the unfolding of life and the flowering of human beingness.
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Read this one for grade school. Interesting person. A certain mover and shaker.
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girlfriend LOVES herself. Which is more reflective--the memoir or the diary?
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