false 5 302 287 true 5699143 read 0 true 4649800 currently-reading 15 true 4649799 to-read 57 false 4656469 literature 44 false 4656483 theory 8 false 4656487 comix 8 false 4656470 history 7 false 4656462 film 6 false 4656503 science---skepticism 1 false 5112871 biography http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57011096 Mike's review of Palestine
by Joe Sacco

I agree about Sacco's puzzling choice of medium. His works are personal documentations of current events and writing them as comics seems like a poor choice due to the medium's tendency towards abstraction. They're quite good regardless although I'm not a big fan of the cross-hatching. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55602440 to: Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre (Paperback) by Simone de Beauvoir
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The first part reads like an extended preface to the second. It's an overarching chronicle of Sartes last years and his political & personal affiliations and, his deteriorating mental and physical condition. His behavior may be typical of one reaching the end of his life: sharply alternating between hopeful optimism, denial, apathy and self-loathing but it's clear that Sarte had a passion for life and his maintained lucidity and penetrating intellect remained almost completely intact. De Beauvoir is sweet and uncritical (almost to a fault) as she presents Sarte it's a frank and touching eulogy to a close friend, from one of the 20th century's most prominent intellectuals to another.

The second part is the bulk of the book and consists of interviews with Sarte during 1974, 6 years before he died. Those who are familiar with Sarte won't find anything here that's new or shocking but it was nice to read him speaking so candidly. De Beauvoir was quite engaging as well in these conversations.

I think I'll reread Being & Nothingness next as this book has put me in the mood for Sarte and I'm ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE TIME TO READ now that the summer is beginning. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49744728 to: Film Is (Paperback) by Stephen Dwoskin
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56352706 The Words (Mass Market Paperback) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56332050 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Thrift) by Edwin A. Abbott
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56292986 Degrees (French Literature Series) by Michel Butor
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56292967 Portrait of the Artist As a Young Ape: A Caprice (Hardcover) by Michel Butor
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