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  <title><![CDATA[The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 (1931-1934)]]></title>
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  <isbn13><![CDATA[9780156260251]]></isbn13>
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  <default_description>This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">19</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">3</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1969</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Diary of Ana&#239;s Nin, Vol. 1 (1931-1934)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anaïs Nin]]></name>
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    <review id="1648776">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ivy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Louis, MO]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who keeps a journal]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 04 09:56:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 07 07:15:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I am not certain exactly what I found so compelling about this book but it sucked me right in.  It is very dense but I could not put it down and breezed thru it in about a week.  There were times when I wanted to yell at Anais to not be so full of herself...but then I remember this is a journal...sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1648776">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="39599429">
    <user id="318068">
    <name><![CDATA[Alan]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 08 09:37:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 08 10:33:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Taste shmaste. She is real. A real woman. Who lead a free life. The fashionability of hating her is about as lame as the knee-jerk love of Wilco. It is done like putting on a pair of Ugg boots in the city. Though there is certainly plausible cause for doing it (snow), it is generally done for no rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39599429">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="17737409">
    <user id="26511">
    <name><![CDATA[Montambo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 14 08:09:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 14 08:15:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I love reading real diaries--especially juvenile ones. Anais Nin's early diaries are like a real-life Lolita (except not as dark). When she gets older, however, they lose all innocence and they hurt a little. Though I get depressed, I still love them. You can't go wrong with volumes 1 and 2. They're...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17737409">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17737409]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="25656756">
    <user id="146960">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone with a pulse]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 27 07:57:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 27 08:42:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Annnnnnaaaaaaiiiiiiisssss (pronounce Anna!!-eeeeeees)<br/><br/>Dear Anais,<br/>So far I have read Volumes 1 and 2 of your diary, Henry &amp; June and that diminutive book of racy short stories, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11036.Little_Birds" title="Little Birds by Anaïs Nin">Little Birds</a>. I ordered 11 more of your works online (used) and am compiling a library that will contain ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25656756">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25656756]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3534053">
    <user id="221215">
    <name><![CDATA[Leilani]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Carrboro, NC]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/221215-leilani]]></url>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 25 19:41:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 25 19:46:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[what insight! this woman was my hero until i read the excerpt:<br/><br/>man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3534053">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="315370">
    <user id="5">
    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Santa Monica, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5-elizabeth]]></url>
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Literary Types ]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 18 22:45:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 18 23:05:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It took me about six months to wade through this book; I finally finished the last 20 painstaking pages this week. <br/><br/>I had to digest the book in small chunks, which was a surprise since I enjoyed reading her &quot;Early Diaries.&quot; In her previous books she was youthful, hopeful and ful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/315370">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/315370]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3380332">
    <user id="134756">
    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Astoria, NY]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/134756-emily]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 22 11:12:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 19 14:07:00 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I feel kind of cheated.  I'm fascinated with Nin's writing and ideas. I'm interested in her work.  I can forgive the solipsism of the diary, since it is, after all, a diary.  But I read this collection of writing feeling like I was getting only half the story.  Because of legal constraints, the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3380332">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3380332]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="47806585">
    <user id="1363946">
    <name><![CDATA[Melanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1363946-melanie]]></url>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 28 12:22:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 12:38:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[i like these much more than her novels.  a beautiful woman.  i love her notes about dreams.  and one of my favorite quotes: &quot;Anxiety is a woman screaming without a voice,&quot; paraphrased because my memory is terrible.  ok i'm just going to list some quotes:  &quot;But this woman, who could un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47806585">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47806585]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5489364">
    <user id="296982">
    <name><![CDATA[kate ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/296982-kate]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[the independently wealthy artist]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 01 12:40:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 01 12:48:08 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I had to stop reading this book, though i did thoroughly enjoy Nin's lengthy ruminations about life and its general contents.  It was not helping me take the giant leap of faith necessary to live my artist life.  The woman never had to have a job, all she did was roam around doing things she wanted ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5489364">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5489364]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41974032">
    <user id="1860671">
    <name><![CDATA[Danielle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Austin, TX]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1860671-danielle]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 10:52:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 10:53:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It's her diary. It's all about her.  Get over it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41974032]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="36920162">
    <user id="1333177">
    <name><![CDATA[Ciara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Somerville, MA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1333177-ciara]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[diarists, anais nin obsessives, henry miller obsessives, people who like reading diaries]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 04 15:19:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 11 07:55:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>once</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[i bought these books years ago &amp; didn't get around to reading them until the summer of 2007. i mean, i bought them like five years before that &amp; just couldn't get into them. anais nin kept a journal for pretty much her entire life, ever since she emigrated to the united states originally when she wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36920162">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36920162]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="6107221">
    <user id="343016">
    <name><![CDATA[Lindsay]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Baltimore, MD]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/343016-lindsay]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[other anais fans]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 12 12:45:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 12 12:45:58 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[So many tiny truths and intricate details.  Anais Nin is such a beautiful writer, and her outlook on the world is a fascinating read.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6107221]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="5597176">
    <user id="340257">
    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/340257-emily-gallagher]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 15:02:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 03 15:20:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It is best to read this while sitting in Les Deux Magots in Paris, sipping coffee, and watching the world go by.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5597176]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="59047337">
    <user id="2400992">
    <name><![CDATA[Maria]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Glendale, AZ]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2400992-maria]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 09 15:13:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 22 21:56:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This goes for anything this woman writes, not just volume 1 of her diaries. What I love about Anais is that she makes no apologies for her inner-contradictions.  She knows herself well, even in her uncertainties.  She knows her strengths and weaknesses and writes passionately about both.  We've all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59047337">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59047337]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="26484981">
    <user id="1298998">
    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1298998-linda]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 06 19:12:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 04 18:50:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Ok, this book caused me to stop reading for awhile. Initially, I really enjoyed it, the stream of consciousness style was cool, but then, I did some additonal reading about the book and author on-line, mid-way between the book, kust because parts of the book were filled with innuendo, and I wanted t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26484981">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26484981]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="23225643">
    <user id="790655">
    <name><![CDATA[Cameron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Orem, UT]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/790655-cameron]]></url>
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 29 09:53:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 11 13:51:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I decided to explore this book since I get some grief for always reading &quot;work&quot; related material. I found a quote on Alanis Morissette's webpage from Anais's diaries and the quote inspired me to learn more. The writing style and book itself starts painfully slow. I was questioning whether ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23225643">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23225643]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="12146602">
    <user id="48499">
    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hanover, NH]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/48499-ryan]]></url>
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 10 07:44:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 21 16:47:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This was perhaps the most exciting and enrapturing prose I've read all year.  Nin was an amazing woman and an amazing writer. Her entries are overflowing with brilliant insight into the fascinating life and mind of an artist and lover.  I had never read any Diary writing before, and I can't imagine ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12146602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to read these in college, sneaking away to the library between classes, or skipping classes, or instead of working on my political science term paper, to peruse the copies of her diaries.  <br/><br/>The meaning of much of it had to have eluded me, or the details have now escaped me, but I r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1398073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[God, I can't remember when I read her diaries or how I came about them, but I remember afterwards, looking at my paltry journals, kept through high school and college, and feeling rather let down by my rather pedestrian life. Yes, I've travelled, yes, junior year abroad in Paris, but god, how very b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67812014">more...</a>]]></body>
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