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look, I'm only reading this because it's on my nighstand in my apartment in Crete, whilst I'm on vacation. don't judge me, I couldn't resist an unopened lonely book.

wow wow wow this book is an absolute beauty.

absolutely wayyyyyy to excited for this book. and I have an exam tomorrow. worst timing ever.

finished book #1. like it a lot, Covenant turns out to be an interesting character. very much anti-hero. the thing with the ring keeps throwing me back to Tolkien, but it's still decent fantasy.

Applebaum is amongst the most thorough historians I know, and this history of the Gulag is just a show to enjoy

this is some of the most beautiful writing I have read in my entire life.

You know what's great? The diaries of a highly educated Jew during the pre-Holocaust period. The information from this book with regards to the social setting of the 30s in Germany is priceless.

Rabbit is a disgusting human being. The book is great. These two statements are interdependent.

like I always said, my love for Anais Nin is unending.

this will be a 5-star. there is no question about it.

I should've started with the Odyssey, and I knew that, but now I'm hooked and can't stop.

after the first 20 pages, I'm already considering burning my phone, laptop and any other technological device I have

the life every man wishes he had

this will definitely be a very difficult and slow book, but I'm loving the process so far

I cannot love this man more. I cannot be in more awe of his craftsmanship.

fascinating!

What I hate about exam season is not the work I have to do, it's the time that it takes away from my personal reading. :(

listening to his music, reading his poems and novels takes a whole new meaning after reading about his life in so much detail. there was so much feeling in this man, so much wisdom and, what most of us miss, so much talent to express it....

loving it!

I cried the whole morning. Cohen's words have been spreading inside me like some incurable disease for the past 5 years, and for the past two years he has been my favourite poet, the man who has somehow written about my life without having actually lived it. He is no more with us. But his words are. And they are his most beautiful, touching praise of life, love, eroticism, loneliness, death and everything in between.

this is a completely different Miller than in other works... much more difficult read, very dense