Books by Geoff Dyer
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review 1: This one stumps me a bit. I failed to follow all of the Mann engagement while reading; without the knowledge of that gloss, the text suffers. Now that i see it i am more favorably disposed. Prose is very crisp, but a bit thin in places; I'm tempted to say tossed off. This quality...
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review 1: Geoff Dyer chose to be a writer as a way of not having a career, Geoff Dyer holds being a single child as a major factor on his personality, Geoff Dyer hopped countries while living on the dole. Geoff Dyer divided his collection of essays into different categories: Visuals, Verba...
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review 1: Can one loathe a writer just from reading his or her work? Such revulsion for another human based on mental processes and attitudes, as revealed by his or her writing, happened to me reading GREAT DAY. This is, I admit, a character flaw on my part for which I apologize, but ther...
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review 1: Curioso libro, el autor nos cuenta la película Stalker, de Tarkovski, plano a plano.Pese a lo que pueda parecer no es solo eso, entre descripción y descripción de lo que podemos ver en la pantalla, Dyer nos cuenta sus impresiones sobre la película, su mas que rendida admiración p...
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review 1: This...was good. It's the kind of book I wish I read for a class, because then I would appreciate just how smart it is. Instead, I was sucked in by the wit and the plot of the first half, and confused and bored by the second half. Probably party because I'm not interested in spir...
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review 1: Ok... this got very close to a five star rating. So why not...? I got the last section of the book - the "autobiographical" essays, and they let the book down... well, really, that are a tad self indulgent, Mr Dyer! Not that I can't relate to the excesses of the 1980's, I was ...