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As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals And Notebooks, 1964-1980 (2012)

by Susan Sontag(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374100764 (ISBN13: 9780374100766)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

series

Journals of Susan Sontag

review 1: Ordinarily I like reading journals and diaries, and Sontag's journals lend themselves well to browsing. However, her own comments about "notebook thinking," and aphorisms apply here. I got the sense that even in her private journal, Sontag is alternately talking down to readers or expecting us to keep up in a sort of intellectual obstacle course. (I don't actually know if she intended these for publication, and if she didn't then it would obviously change my view of what she's written here.) But I marked dozens of passages for further thought and discussion. There's some good thinking here, even if you don't come to the same conclusions that she did.
review 2: I would say journal is not my favorite format. It is so unstructured that my thought gets lost quite e... moreasily and lists of movies she watched and her daily activities won't help either. From such a perspective, I find that the most attractive parts of the book are where she spells out her thoughts on philosophy and politics and describes her struggling of being a good lover, which can essentially be read as essays, but more personal since the journal is not intended for public eyes. less

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