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M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 7 years ago
I flirted long enough with this. Nothing instrumental found to enlighten me or add to my life. For the most part, a reading disappointment.
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 8 years ago
[a:Cory Taylor|4504374|Cory Taylor|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1463373744p2/4504374.jpg] first introduced me to Adam Phillips in her outstanding memoir titled [b:Dying: A Memoir|32898239|Dying A Memoir|Cory Taylor|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1478535180s/32898239.jpg|50269241]. Now h...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 8 years ago
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/159838938858/houdinis-box-by-adam-phillips…Real magic is the illusion that there is such a thing as real magic…Years ago Houdini became for me more than just a famous magician and escape artist. I felt I knew him. Back in grade school my mother provided me a book allo...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 8 years ago
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/156795068093/one-way-and-another-new-and-selected-essays-byAcclaimed author and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has written a marvelous book and one that could not have been discovered by me at a more opportune time. It comes to me as comfortingly rewarding to have several...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 8 years ago
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/154055211413/missing-out-in-praise-of-the-unlived-life-by-adam…In my version of strong reading , the strong reader is trying to rediscover what he hates, and he is looking for clues about how he can get out of it.The title alone is reason enough to read this interestin...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 8 years ago
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/153562222138/monogamy-by-adam-phillipsHaving read this book two times I still find it daunting to write a review about it. During both occasions I was excited and totally engaged in my reading. Twice, I recorded segments of aphorisms I found to be exacting and poignant...
Modern Reader
Modern Reader rated it 10 years ago
Freud only thinks about sex.
Mel's Book Blog
Mel's Book Blog rated it 12 years ago
This story finally wraps up with a very powerful, very intense ending... or more appropriately, a new beginning into the next phase of life. The story follows the friendship of Andy (Adam, as this is an autobiographical account) and his best friend, Matt, from the third grade up through young adult...
Mel's Book Blog
Mel's Book Blog rated it 12 years ago
This story finally wraps up with a very powerful, very intense ending... or more appropriately, a new beginning into the next phase of life. The story follows the friendship of Andy (Adam, as this is an autobiographical account) and his best friend, Matt, from the third grade up through young adult...
All the World's a Page
All the World's a Page rated it 12 years ago
Autobiography/memoir is a strange genre in the literary universe. It is at once a piece of fiction and non-fiction, a chronicle of one's memories, and a perversion of history in favor of art. In Proust, who blends the lines of autobiography, fiction, and essay in his À la recherche du temps perdu, a...
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