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Title: The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading by Geoffrey O'Brien ISBN: 1-58243-056-X Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: To each his own...
Comment: Let,s face it ,books about books are boring and more than a little snooby.This is one.
I enjoy books about books,readers,writers,collectors and book people in general;but this left me cold.The author takes a bookish approach to some excellent basic ideas and ends up writing to a very small audience,who may very well be enthralled by it.
To me, the best part of the book was the cover.
Did her lover give her "The Browser's Estacy" to read while he immersed himself in "The Poetics of Meaning" or "The Master of the Day of Judgement"? Or did he ask her what she thought of this book. "Great!put me to sleep in no time at all".
No doubt, some will really like this book,but my preference is more towards "Passion for Books" by Rabinowitz & Kaplan or"The Anatomy of Bibliomania" by Holbrook Jackson.For me, these are exceptions to my opening remark.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essays about being absorbed by the written word
Comment: The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation On Reading by Geoffrey O'Brien is a simply fascinating selection of thoughtful and thought-provoking essays about being absorbed by the written word, as well as the wonder and the pleasure of being transported by and through books to times, places, and thoughts heretofore unknowable to the solitary reader. An inspirational and welcome reflection on the pastime that marked the dawn of recorded human history down to the present day and into the forseeable future, The Browser's Ecstasy is enthusiastically recommended reading for anyone who has ever had a book transport them through journeys of the mind into lives, places, people, and events far from their own native habitat.
Rating: 2
Summary: pretentious, silly, and sometimes offensive
Comment: I really can't imagine what might have encouraged those reviews above. I found it exhausting to get through this--not particularly because the anecdotes O'Brien tells are boring but instead because O'Brien's tone itself is so off-putting, so agonizingly pretentious, that it actually ends up ruining what I think could be a very fascinating read. I can't recommend this book. Sorry.
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Title: Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life by Geoffrey O'Brien ISBN: 1582431922 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien ISBN: 0393312968 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Essential Cinema by Jonathan Rosenbaum ISBN: 0801878403 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Oracle Night : A Novel by Paul Auster ISBN: 0805073205 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Early Stories : 1953-1975 by JOHN UPDIKE ISBN: 1400040728 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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