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Unlike some others, I definitely enjoy Gertrude Stein's writing style, which is bare, modern, and minimal in terms of punctuation. It reads like hearing someone speak, or a stream of consciousness diary. It took some getting used to but I really grew to enjoy it after a while.
This little memoir/autobiography had many interesting moments - Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas lead an interesting life in Paris before and after WWI. But overall, the constant name-dropping just bored me. The stories o ...more
This little memoir/autobiography had many interesting moments - Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas lead an interesting life in Paris before and after WWI. But overall, the constant name-dropping just bored me. The stories o ...more
Good beach reading although I prickled sometimes at Gertrude Stein's hubris.
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I like the pictures
If you like to read banal namedropping of artists and authors then this is the book for you.
If you like to read banal namedropping of artists and authors then this is the book for you.
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