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is_book_loring's review
2.0
Not the most accessible writing, but it does contains some really good wisdom- if one could retain enough focus to mine them out from the elaborate prose and the author's contradictions, tolerance to shrug off the sexism and heavy mythicism, about reading, writing and creative work; basically the conditions of the life of study.
callmeevan's review
4.0
A good and practical guide, and overall pretty timeless (except when the author recommends a Paris printer by name and footnotes his shop's address), which is to say applicable, common-sensical. Encourages and gives guidance for the silence, time, recollectedness, and aims of worthy intellectual work. Neither too daunting nor facile.
Not 'mandatory,' I would say, but quite enjoyable and gave a sense of purpose and direction.
Not 'mandatory,' I would say, but quite enjoyable and gave a sense of purpose and direction.
veniasum's review
5.0
I've edited my rating from an irritated 2 stars (college Grace, who couldn't get past the early assumption that the intellectual would have a wife who wasn't also an intellectual) to a humbled 5 stars. I really should have paid better attention to this book when I was twenty.
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