false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387539m/52372.jpg 52372 18 Susan Sontag has written four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five books of essays, among them Against Interpretation, and Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. 768174 book 1977 On Photography total:1200|5:424|4:491|3:242|2:36|1:7| 1200 4889 1903 90 4 6 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 22 20:02:45 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 10 14:41:50 -0700 2008
I'm rather surprised not to have found any comments in other reviews regarding Sontag's horrific tactlessness in her discussions of "freaks"...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Jul 30 20:03:48 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 11:31:29 -0700 2007 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 17 07:00:49 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 07:27:38 -0800 2008
Sontag's ideas are so culturally important and have been so assimilat...more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Jan 02 15:46:37 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 15:54:02 -0800 2009
T...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 09:41:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 10:41:36 -0800 2009 Step two: find a writing utensil
Step three: go on the subway/metro/pvta and go!

you will want to underline just about every sentence because it is life changing. You will want to hug your camera and then throw it into a fire. You will never approach t...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 23 13:05:23 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 13:35:00 -0800 2008
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I don't read much nonfiction, and this was originally for a class, but the...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 13:32:19 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 13:36:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 16 14:49:25 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 14:00:32 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 21:04:52 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:23:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 09 08:05:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 08:09:36 -0700 2009
On Photography was my first experience reading anything by Susan Sontag. Occasionally you run into a writer that you know is a person of immense intelligence, like some kind of superpower, and yet they have the ability to write in a clear and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 07:45:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 07:39:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 03 15:41:13 -0800 2009 Thu May 07 09:41:55 -0700 2009

Every paragraph sounds like the end of a chapter, a summation filled with nuance and aphorism, but it's too much. It's a superhighway jammed with loaded information. It's good stuff, except i wish it had been more concise or I had had the photographs she was mentioning to cut up the in...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 05:04:23 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 03:40:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 08 13:30:35 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 13:37:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 14:25:20 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 14:31:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 19 20:12:03 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 20:13:04 -0800 2009 feel like i could've written the book myself if i were a bit better at
well...writing and putting my thoughts into some kind of order--i
agree wholeheartedly with so many passages in the book.]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 03 10:00:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 26 16:56:15 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 03 10:00:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 15 09:17:17 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 09:17:58 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=52372