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Lust for Life

Irving Stone

4.19 · Rating details · 23,847 ratings · 1,343 reviews

Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone's Lust For Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone's novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh —brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevere ...more

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Nov 11, 2013 Duane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: rated-books, reviewed-books, historical-fiction

I have always been fascinated with Vincent Van Gogh's art and of the man himself. Starry Night is my favorite painting. Irving Stone allows us a peek at Van Gogh the person and how the events of his life shaped the genius of his painting. Stone uses his pen as a brush to paint his portrait of Van Gogh and helped me to better understand the man behind the paintings. ...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Ra rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite, historical-fiction

This is a book I can read in less than 24 hours

(24 hours for almost 600 pages in Indonesian translation)

I have a little problem with rating stars, I can't give this book only a 5 star. It deserves a 10 stars!!

It's by far my most favorite book, I won't lend this book to anyone so then I can reread it whenever I want ;), I'll put it on my precious collection.

If I'm not wrong this is his word when he had a heated debate with Gauguin;
Van Gogh: 'It is not the language of painters but the language of ...more

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May 08, 2016 La Tonya Jordan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to La Tonya by: Palladuim Bookies

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This book is set in a period of time where titles, status, manners, and integrity of your family's name is very important. Vincent Van Gogh is testing all venues of social norms. With the constant support, love, and devotion of his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh became the artist, man, and living legend he is today. A name that will live forever in eternity for his contributions in art.

He started painting the peasants, laborers, weavers, and the outcast of society long before it was fashionable ...more

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Aug 22, 2007 Tory rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I bought this book because it interested me on two levels. First, and ridiculously foremost, the authors name. Irving. The last name of my beloved John. And secondly, it’s a novel about Van Gogh. Van Gogh is nothing if not interesting.

Yet, I was surprised at just how into this book I was. I loved it. I loved Van Gogh’s story as an artist. I loved all that other artists in the story.

Can you imagine sitting at a cafe in Paris with the likes of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Laurtec, Cezanne, Gauguin, Zola an ...more

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Jan 21, 2018 Janete rated it it was amazing

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I read this in portuguese and loved it.

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Sep 05, 2010 El rated it really liked it

Shelves: artsy-fartsy, 20th-centurylit-early

Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh? Whoda thunk it. It's like choosing Charlton Heston to play Michelangelo. Oh, wait. That was done too.

I didn't expect to like this that much as I went into it. I read The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo and seem to remember thinking it was pretty okay, though strangely I can't recall where or when I read it. But I have this issue with books like this, historical fiction if you will. It's hard for me to suspend my disbelief in books fe ...more

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Jul 08, 2009 Stephen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

After finishing Irving Stone’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” I turned to his other historical novel about an artist.

Aptly titled “Lust for Life,” the book covers the short painting career of Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh, who became an artist after failed stints as a teacher and minister. He was 27-years-old. Stone’s principal references were the hundreds of letters exchanged between Vincent and his chief patron, his brother Theo. Luckily, these correspondences survive.

Initially, the After finishing Irving Stone’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” I turned to his other historical novel about an artist.

Aptly titled “Lust for Life,” the book covers the short painting career of Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh, who became an artist after failed stints as a teacher and minister. He was 27-years-old. Stone’s principal references were the hundreds of letters exchanged between Vincent and his chief patron, his brother Theo. Luckily, these correspondences survive.

Initially, the artist’s somber palette: dark earth tones, lots of browns, mimicked the other Dutch painters. But at the encouragement of his brother, Vincent moved to Paris and discovered the brighter hues being used by the Impressionist artists. Van Gogh’s palette and subject matter brightened as well, but it wasn’t until he moved to sunny Arles, to paint the bright fields of the countryside that the struggling painter hit his creative stride. He also embraced the color most associated with his work: yellow.

“As the summer advanced, everything became burnt up. He saw about him nothing but old gold, bronze and copper, covered by a greenish azure sky of blanched heat. There was sulphur yellow on everything the sunlight hit. His canvases were masses of bright burning yellow. He knew that yellow had not been used in European painting since the Renaissance, but that did not deter him. The pigment yellow oozed out of the tubes onto his canvas, and there it stayed. His pictures were sun steeped, sun burnt, tanned with the burning sun and swept with air,” Irving Stone writes.

Most of van Gogh’s best-known works were produced during his time in the French countryside. He produced masterpiece after masterpiece as Stone writes:

“Every morning Vincent arose before dawn, dressed, and tramped several kilometers down the river or into the country to find a spot that stirred him. Every night he returned with his finished canvas, finished because there was nothing more he could do with it. Directly after supper he went to bed.

“He became a blind painting machine, dashing off one sizzling canvas after another without even knowing what he did. The orchards of the country were in bloom. He developed a wild passion to paint them all. He no longer thought about his painting. He just painted. All his eight years of intense labour were at last expressing themselves in a great burst of triumphal energy. Sometimes, when he began working at the first crack of dawn, the canvas would be completed by noon. He would tramp back to town, drink a cup of coffee and trudge out again in another direction with a new canvas.

“He did not know whether his painting was good or bad. He did not care. He was drunk with colour.”

Vincent’s frenzy certainly must have led to creative exhaustion. Although van Gogh only painted for ten years before committing suicide in 1890, he managed to create an enormous body of work, more than 2,000 pieces, including 900 paintings and roughly 1,100 drawings and sketches.

An oeuvre that is today worth billions of dollars, while he died more or less penniless with only his brother Theo to mourn his passing.

Stone’s novel is a good initial peak into the artist’s remarkable struggles.
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Oct 01, 2011 Judy rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, netherlands, belgium, 2012-reads, fiction-the-arts, france

Either Irving Stone is a brilliant author writing this book in a simplistic style in order to capture Van Gogh's simple lifestyle and open-minded thinking (for the day) or this book is a travesty, one that could have been written elegantly in a way that would have reflected the beauty of Van Gogh's art. Since I can't make up my mind which it is, I have compromised with a 3-star rating.

What I liked:

*The author uses 700-plus letters from Van Gogh to his loving brother, Theo, as the foundation for ...more

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May 24, 2017 David rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-american, biography-autobio-artists

I had picked up "Lust for Life" in a secondhand book shop, like most of my books, to read on train trips back and forth from Elmwood Park to downtown Chicago, where I worked opposite the Chicago Tribune building on Michigan Avenue. I knew only a little about art or literature then, and I haven't improved much since that time, although after having read Irving Stone's biography of Van Gogh, I appreciated art and artists much more. I had already read Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence" based on Paul ...more

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Feb 01, 2016 Romantical Skeptic rated it liked it · review of another edition

I was going to gripe SO HARD about this book until the very last "author's notes" when I realized the book was published in 1934 and Irving Stone actually got first hand accounts of people who actually knew Van Gogh.

The good
1) The research and consistency with at least some research on Van Gogh and what is believed have been the sequence of events in his life -- he relies on VG's letters to his brother Theo, of which there are 800

2) I learned about Theo Van Gogh - the unheralded, loyal to a faul I was going to gripe SO HARD about this book until the very last "author's notes" when I realized the book was published in 1934 and Irving Stone actually got first hand accounts of people who actually knew Van Gogh.

The good
1) The research and consistency with at least some research on Van Gogh and what is believed have been the sequence of events in his life -- he relies on VG's letters to his brother Theo, of which there are 800

2) I learned about Theo Van Gogh - the unheralded, loyal to a fault, younger brother of Vincent. It was really because of Theo that Vincent got himself known at all - Theo supported him financially and emotionally all his life - even when others forsook him.

3) Fascinating time period - the convergence of the the big personalities in art (Paul Gaugin, Seurrat, Rousseau) and literature (Zola, Maupassant) must have been quite an intellectual primordial soup to have lived through. They all come across as whackos of course, but this is la vie de l'art!

The bad
1) The dialogue is hilariously overwrought. I thought I was reading the script of a soap. A lot of operatic scenes of unrequited love, and expressions of magnificent pain. I really didn't enjoy the language and I think it has a lot to do with how old the book is - maybe this is how people expressed drama in the 30s?

2) I listened to a narration of this book and I really, really, really disliked the male narrator's rendition of female voices. It was AWFUL and cringeworthy.

3) Can you put a real life character in the "bad" column just because you didn't like him? I guess I'm going to. What a whiny brat VGV turns out to be. I know, I know, he most likely suffered from undiagnosed depression all his life but holy hell he whinged an awful lot. His poor parents and brother spend he whole time bailing him out of money troubles and women troubles and this guy just keeps whining.

I go back to my belief that when "great" creators create beautiful things, we have to sing the praises of all the supporting cast who let the person even come to a point where that creation was possible. Without Theo, Vincent would have basically starved himself and never created anything.

Side note: After reading about all these deep and intense artists, I wonder if their ghosts are upset that their work now adorns dorm rooms and plastic coasters. I wonder if they would be happy to see so many people enjoy their work, or they would feel furious by the pedestrian way we treat what to them was the work of their life? ...more

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May 26, 2018 Natasa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: biography-memoir-nonfiction, french-history, art-history

This is a great book and is a fascinating historical biography of Van Gogh’s life. Like many others, I feel Van Gogh is one of the greatest geniuses, while also one of the saddest stories about artistic genius. I think Irving Stone is amazing for writing a book like this and brilliant in his manner of trying to capture the complexity of the obsessive personality that made Van Gogh who he was.

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Apr 08, 2017 Camie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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If you like historic fiction and the classics, you will enjoy Irving Stone's books. This one about the tortured life of Vincent Van Gogh is a old favorite.
4.5 stars ...more

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Aug 10, 2020 Abhishek Talesara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“You mean you have to make your drawings right so the portraits will be good enough to sell?”
“No,” replied Vincent, sketching rapidly with his pencil, “I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.”

This dialogue between Vincent Van Gogh and his mother, read today, may come out as a banal mismatch of mindsets of an artist and a “sane” rational being. Be it Nina Sayers from “Black Swan”, Andrew from “Whiplash” or Howard Roark from “The Fountainhead”, their fury of passion—which “You mean you have to make your drawings right so the portraits will be good enough to sell?”
“No,” replied Vincent, sketching rapidly with his pencil, “I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.”

This dialogue between Vincent Van Gogh and his mother, read today, may come out as a banal mismatch of mindsets of an artist and a “sane” rational being. Be it Nina Sayers from “Black Swan”, Andrew from “Whiplash” or Howard Roark from “The Fountainhead”, their fury of passion—which enkindles the soul and smoulders a man slowly from inside until one day its flames engulf him whole and like a Phoenix he rises in his all his glory—was greater than their individual lives. Vincent Van Gogh’s story through the words of Irving stone, stripped off of its embellishments, is imbibed with the same essence; but similar to his artistic works, Vincent’s tale has a striking realism which stirs “something in your bowels”.

Under a crude departmentalisation, the book can be divided into three major parts: an artist’s search for himself, passion vs rationale, and the artist vs his own self. Vincent’s lust for life had begun or Stone’s “Lust for Life” life begins with a quest for the meaning of his life; vacillating in a existential worm hole, Vincent initially makes himself believe that it is God who resides at its vortex and only through His work, he can fill in the meaningless void of his life. Striving for meaning, Vincent sets on the gravelled path of evangelical service upon which he stumbles, falls, gets bruised, and finally gives in to his helplessness and gives up his God and once again finds himself in an existential abyss. It is in these dark moments, Vincent inadvertently picks up a tattered and yellowed letter and a piece of charcoal and thus, what followed was a light so strong that it still illuminates innumerable artists putting their heart and soul in their canvases.

Stone has jaded “Lust For Life” with several gems in the form of inception and the backstory of a number of Van Gogh’s canvases. Stone adeptly imitates Van Gogh’s masterpieces through his words and does justice to the underlying philosophy and rawness of human nature which constitute the soul of a Van Gogh art work. For an art amateur like myself, who doesn’t possess a fastidious eye of an art critic, Stone caters to the heart the striking aliveness of lifeless canvases.

Overall, “Lust for Life” is a page-turner for both—the connoisseurs and the novices in quest for an artistic vision. It’s a book of passion, hope, survival, and love and would definitely impel you to Google Van Gogh’s (and several of his contemporaries) dateless artworks. ...more

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Oct 01, 2010 Sharon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: all-things-france, historical-fiction

Written with a passion reminiscent of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, Irving Stone's "Lust for Life" is a fictionalized biography of the famed post-Impressionist painter.

Stone starts his story during Van Gogh's teenaged years, living with his strict Calvinist parents (his father was a predikant, a Dutch Calvinist minister), somewhat struggling against the strictures of his life. He himself becomes a Calvinist evangelist and receives a less-than-desirable assignment to a Belgian coal-mining town.

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Jul 24, 2013 Bionic Jean rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: auto-and-biography, read-authors-q-t, art

Irving Stone has been criticised for being populist, but I really enjoyed this imaginative retelling of Van Gogh's life story. It inspired me to search out his paintings in London's galleries, and you can't want for more than that in a biography of an artist. ...more

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Aug 04, 2007 Suvi rated it did not like it

Shelves: art, 1900-1939, _europe-western, novels, _north-america, historical

I did not like this. At all. Years ago I liked Pierre la Mure's biographical novel Moulin Rouge (1950), which is about the struggles of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, another favorite artist of mine. I still don't understand the point of biographical novels though, because I would rather read a proper objective biography. My problem is the same with historical novels: how can you trust that the author hasn't distorted the events, but has actually done thorough research? Must you have blind faith, th I did not like this. At all. Years ago I liked Pierre la Mure's biographical novel Moulin Rouge (1950), which is about the struggles of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, another favorite artist of mine. I still don't understand the point of biographical novels though, because I would rather read a proper objective biography. My problem is the same with historical novels: how can you trust that the author hasn't distorted the events, but has actually done thorough research? Must you have blind faith, that you're not accidentally learning all the wrong stuff? Maybe I should just learn to read novels as they are: fiction.

What was wrong about this then? I think that Stone's story slipped stylistically too much on the biography side. Even though a novel was based in real events or a real person, I would still expect something from the prose. Not colorless and overly simplistic style, but a proper novel with vivid characters. After all, van Gogh's life was incredibly fascinating and tragic, so you would think that there's a lot you can do about that.

The biggest problem was, that I was constantly aware I was reading mere words, because there were no emotion behind them. Even the parts where a burning passion toward painting was described were bland and uninspiring. It would have been more fruitful if more had been said, other than van Gogh worked a lot and painted blue skies and stuff. Occasionally Stone uses three periods really annoyingly, like he wants to emphasize an important or shocking scene. The characters were paper thin and boring, and the descriptions of appearance were horribly clumsy. The kind of interesting conversations about art didn't fit into the dialogue, but seemed like they were cut out of a textbook.

All in all I am a bit annoyed that I wasted my time on this and actually finished the whole thing. Still, this served as a decent vacuum on August nights, when I was just eager to empty my brain from everything else before going to sleep. I just didn't feel like reading anything else when I was too busy selecting my courses and thinking about the lectures that were just around the corner. Sometimes it's like this: you just have to finish a book, even though it annoys you more and more every second. ...more

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Mar 15, 2012 Solor rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Masterpiece !! Stone narrative is masterful, impressive, compulsive.
Certainly, the fact that the exceptional protagonist of the story is one of the most suffering artist ever existed, makes the flight of imagination to dramatize the Artist life an astounding feat of thorough research, sensibility and empathy.
Seemingly, Stone account isn't totally faithful to the facts and the troubled psychology of the man: it is evident the author effort to paint out the Artist as a Jesus Christ figure, pure a ...more

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Jun 29, 2015 Beverley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I could hardly put this book down. Van Gogh was such an intense man and cared so much for others. He was kind, passionate, talented, and so misunderstood and reviled by so many. When I finished the book, I grieved, for a lost friend.....

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Aug 03, 2020 Jovana Autumn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”

The famous biography of Van Gogh was some time on my to-read list.
I love the paintings of Van Gogh, they have always awoken emotion in me, the coloring, the people nature, everything is full of emotion.

There isn’t a way to write a review for this book without spoiling it, so I’ll just say that my initial impression was that Stone doesn’t really know how to wri ...more

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Sep 09, 2020 Sahar Frb rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you." ...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Alvi Harahap rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. Reading fiction is one thing but reading a biography calls for loads of patience. Unwittingly I started reading this book which goes by the name Lust for Life by Irving Stone.

And yet Lust for Life is a devastatingly sad chronicle of the life and paintings of Vincent. It struck me like a bolt of lightning that not a single canvas that Vincent produced ever went on sale. Vincent could be called ...more

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Jul 01, 2008 Kressel Housman rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: aspiring artists of all kinds

Shelves: historical-fiction, fiction, biography

You don't need a strong art history background to appreciate this, the novelized biography of Vincent Van Gogh. Even if you can only remember the names of a few French impressionists and can picture only a painting or two, that's plenty. The more knowledge, the better, but that's all I had, and I found this book both educational and enjoyable. Frum readers should be warned that Van Gogh's relationships with women, including prostitutes, figure into this book. Those scenes are not as explicit as ...more

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May 25, 2016 Theresa Alan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I loved this book because of all the things I got to learn about this artist. For example, I didn't know Van Gogh had worked as a preacher in a mining town and gave away absolutely everything to the starving families around him before he became a (unsuccessful during his lifetime) painter. I also recommend The Agony and the Ecstasy by the same author about Michelangelo for the same reason--learning about these amazing artists and what they endured to have artwork that connects so many from such ...more

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Mar 07, 2012 Dish Wanderer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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‘No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.’- Doctor Gachet (pg.412) This sentence spoken by Doctor Gachet best sum up the brilliant genius that was Vincent Van Gogh. What an amazing painter and individual, driven by the ‘lust for life’, his passion for art, just takes your breath away! What a lonely man, driven by a need for love and comfort but finding none save in his beloved brother Theo and his paintings.
This is a poignant, wonderful, inspiring and yet heart breaking story of V ...more

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Apr 01, 2020 Indrė rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Like reading a biography that is wrapped in a form of a novel. Can't really tell how much of this was fiction, but it's kind of mindblowing to me, to know that the author actually talked to people who knew Vincent in person.
My god that man suffered. He chose to. Pain was his art, he knew no other way. He was laughed at, mocked, being called "Le Fou Roux" - the red fool, being rejected by women he loved, he was an embarrassment to his family. His teachers and fellow painters didn't look at him s ...more

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Aug 04, 2018 Fidan Selim-Zade rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The book's name - Lust for Life - perfectly describes the biography of well-known painter Vincent Van Gogh. You live the utter dedication and passion, sore quest, denial, devastation, solitude and camaraderie, elaboration of talent, strong will to address the silent misery and internal beauty, anowal, brother's love.. The life and art to be remembered, the souls of two brothers so pure, that the ending of their paths cannot leave anyone indifferent. My heart is now with Theo Van Gogh and his phe ...more

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Nov 09, 2012 Mikey B. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This was a surprisingly good book, as I was leery of a novelistic approach to a biography. Sure there are some leaps and liberties taken, but for the most part it seems authentic.

The beginning is rather tedious with Van Gogh’s unreciprocated love for Ursula. This is strained and not particularly interesting. It has little to do with Van Gogh’s creation of art. After this episode the story picks up pace and is fast moving. The author does not dwell long on any particular topic. The chapters are ...more

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Feb 22, 2018 owilkumowa rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Mr Irving Stone, you deserve a punch in the face for destroying my passion for The Starry Night.

I find biographical novels... questionable. Having the picture heavily distorted by author's vivid imagination is what has kept me back from the genre. For Vincent, I took a chance, as with a story so moving, I was certain there was little that could have gone wrong. Ahem.

Titular passion was nowhere to be found. Clunky dialogue and oversimplified style made me think that Lust for Life should actually ...more

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Sep 03, 2017 Moriah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Irving Stone wrote this fictional biography of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the greatest impressionist painters of all time, using the fragments of his life. with an immense instructive potential, Stone gives us eight parts devided by places Vincent tried to build a life in, and ends it with his tragic death.

Although I was interested in reading this book, when I got right down to it I kind of expected it to be dry or tedious. It was not. I flew through it. This was one of the most beautiful books I' ...more

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Feb 24, 2020 Harsha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I am short of words to express how i feel after reading this. This was an intense, passionate, gripping tale of a man who created a path breaking work in the world of painting, despite the deteriorating conditions of his flesh and mind . I felt as if I had gained some priceless asset after completing it. It's been quite a time that i felt completely absorbed in a book. It came to me at the right time and it made a profound impact on the way i see life ...more

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In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1960s, Stone received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern California, where he had previously earned a Masters Degree from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

When at home, Stone relied upon the research facilities and expertise made available to him by Esther Euler ...more