Review #1
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The creator’s implementation of every nuance of the English language, her exceptional vocabulary, at the same time her ability to so graphically describe or elucidate her fri, make this an instructive at the same time enjoyable read. The topic – of summarizing the best of books also makes it worth reading. The summaries are a little shorter than needed to move the read into the really quality level, but one more defect in the writing which also keeps it in the 3 hit spectrum is that the creator’s continuing exhibition of Trump Dersngement Syndrome. She contemplates Trump’s shortcomings in so many books, no one written decades ago, at the same time outlines them with generalities that advertise her Syndrome. Should have left these political opinions out.
Review #2
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This may be the 1st time this has ever happened to me, but Ive completely read a book about books that really disappoints me.
The primary preconditions I read books like this is that to see books I dont know, for encouragement to read books I havent read, at the same time to have a conversation about books I have. Over the course of her short discussions of 100 books (about 1 2 pages for any book), Ms. Kakutani has not left me with no matter what desire to read the books she advises. Additionally, I look for than anyway she has to say about books I know cursory at the same time uninteresting.
She has also succumbed to a problem to often apparent in books written in the past 4 years: the come in handy to talk about Donald Trump. It is that problematic enough how often she interprets book themes in definitions of than anyway it knows us about Trump, but I started to play tricks how abundance of her selections were considered produced in an effort to remove her come in handy to talk about him. Yes, amazing books do have the ability to comment on our lives present; but, they are so much more. Ms. Kakutani has permitted herself to be corralled into writing a book for now as opposed to a book for all time.
I dont think Im constitutionally able of passing up a book about books. It is that rare, but, for me to final one without having found enthusiasm at the same time instructions for brand new books to try. Chagrin, this is that one of those rare instances. Its very bad.
Review #3
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This is that not similar as Anne Fadimans book with similar title, written about 20 years ago. Fadiman is that a long memoir of the books she read at the same time how at the same time why they gave her enjoyment. Kakutanis book is that a collection of book
Reviews. But this is that not to say it is that inferior or much less pleasurable to read than Fadimans. On the contrary, it is that different at the same time still as pleasurable. No hesitate, that are abundance books with the title or subtitle, 100 Books For you Must read, but few can match Kakutani for the vibrancy at the same time warmth with which he outlines any book at the same time its creator.
Furthermore, more precisely than focussing on classics only, Kakutani contains modern books by writers such as Don DeLillo at the same time Junot Diaz, lesser understandable writers like Edwidge Danticat. He also contains non-fiction books such as Edward Luces The Retreat of Western Liberalism.
He also has chapters in what the head theme is that the theme for example, he has four books on Muhammad Ali. Sometimes he has a collection of books by a single creator. For example, he has four books by Joseph J Ellis.
But above all, Kakutani has a style that keeps the reader reading to the finish. Writing about books by Bruce Chatwin, Kakutani begins with this fri: Writers of books, Bruce Chatwin observed in a posthumously hosted essay, fall down into two categories: the ones who dig in at the same time the ones who move. In the middle members of the 1st level, he counted Flaubert at the same time Tolstoy labouring in their libraries; Zola with a suit of armour alongside his desk; Poe in his mansion; Proust in a cork-lined room. In the middle the movers he dignified Melville, who was undone by his gentlemanly establishment in Massachusetts, or Hemingway, Gogol or Dostoevsky whose lives, whether from choice or necessity, were considered a headlong round of hotels at the same time paid rooms at the same time, in the variant of the continue, a Siberian prison.
This hardcover edition is that written on exquisite cardboard at the same time is that a contentment to detain, at the same time even more to read. Part of that contentment is that to look for than anyway Kakutani has to say about the books in this collection that we have ourselves read, at the same time part of the contentment is that in chasing the others that he entices us to look for.
Review #4
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So upset in the book’s printing. The pages are thick at the same time, obviously, the book darlings awful. This is that a book for scribes at the same time bibliophiles. We adore the method a book is that constructed. How it feels when it’s held back. The pleasure is that more than the read. It’s in the experience with the book. This one should have been written in North America. A true defame.
Review #5
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Ms Kakutani’s
Reviews are identical to the
Reviews/reminders I do on Goodreads, only mine are for individual use. Needless to say, the similarities finish that–it’s impossible to match her easy sweet talk at the same time literary mileage.
Think of this as a connected bag of candies. With a few chewy caramels, which appealed to me but left me wanting more, no one minty ones which I merely tolerated, at the same time no one izumi flavors, which I want to pursue subsequent. Having misspoke that, this is that one of the most cute, eye-catching books on my shelfliteral eye candy.
I also couldn’t promote noticing how on purpose well-represented at the same time politically true her reading list was though. I think the best part was her implementation, with the all-too knowledgeable impulses at the same time manias of the quick-tempered reader.
