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Nausea
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I put a longer review of this book / a journal entry that I wrote while I was reading it in "my writing" since it was too long for this page.
6.9.07
Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to. It is sickening and dark and so terribly everyday that it gets inside you if you let it. Sartre writes beautifully and describes the physical world in such incredible detail, that if you are a reader, and even more if you are a writer, you want to keep going and never put it down, but if you are not emotionally stable enough to handle the fact that you might have done nothing but existing, don't read this book. If you are jaded by love don't read this book. If you almost lost your self in desire, don't read this book. Probably nobody should read this book. Then again, if you are like me and obsessed with words and the art that comes from darkness and the study of lonliness, then this is a work of genius. Its beautifully written, terrifying and intense. So go ahead, but at your own risk, and when you freak the hell out, don't tell anyone that it was me who recommended that you mess with Sartre.
6.9.07
Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to. It is sickening and dark and so terribly everyday that it gets inside you if you let it. Sartre writes beautifully and describes the physical world in such incredible detail, that if you are a reader, and even more if you are a writer, you want to keep going and never put it down, but if you are not emotionally stable enough to handle the fact that you might have done nothing but existing, don't read this book. If you are jaded by love don't read this book. If you almost lost your self in desire, don't read this book. Probably nobody should read this book. Then again, if you are like me and obsessed with words and the art that comes from darkness and the study of lonliness, then this is a work of genius. Its beautifully written, terrifying and intense. So go ahead, but at your own risk, and when you freak the hell out, don't tell anyone that it was me who recommended that you mess with Sartre.
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May 28, 2007
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May 18, 2011 11:39AM
That...was...awesome.
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Love this review! I have this one on my nightstand. You make it sound so irresistible.
I couldn't have said it better myself, perfect.
Well said, and I think you and I have a very similar obsession with regards to our love words and the beauty of sometimes disturbing elements of truth. I love the existential genre in literature and two of my all time favourites are Notes from Underground and Sorrows of Young Werther, but I'm having difficulty finding books that are able to succinctly articulate the existential condition. I recently read Fighter by Craig Davidson which I found to contain gems in this genre but any other suggestions anyone could make would be greatly appreciated.
You said it so damn perfectly, man. We are clearly floating in the same boat.....of existentialism.
I would be more intrested if i had red the book 10,15 Years ago..
My problem with this book is it just seemed like roquentin was severely psychologically unwell rather than necessarily revealing the truth of existence. I don't know the vast majority of it was just so gloomy and I tend to view the existential condition as one of joy, which I suppose roquentin begins to find at the end.
exactly! you had the words to say what i'd been thinking about nausea. people ask how to wrap their heads around the book and i just don't understand how they can not do it. i couldn't put it down despite the existential discontent it brought me.
A good companion to Vertigo by A. Hitchcock
oh,well,yes, I may as well
This review sums up exactly how I felt about this god-forsaken book. Don’t read if you’re fresh out of a breakup like me.
"Nausea is not a good thing to have as the only thing that belongs to you, and even worse as the only thing that you belong to." Awesome, right into the point!
wow thx i needed that because i personally love philosophy but i start having anxiety when it gets to deep.
Nausea is the best thing to have, because it is the only thing that belongs to you and makes you understand that you "have" nothing and must think about "becoming" instead of thinking about "having".
I think that what turns it so into us, is that we felt like this in so many moments of our lifes, and the first time that I could really know and understand it, was when he put that on worlds, before that everything was so puzzled to me
You absolutely hit the nail on the head and have described exactly my feelings toward the book. Great review!
dang this makes me wanna to read it
*wanna read it OOF I should sleep
The review reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe’s Alone poem. Dark but painfully beautiful
It needs to say that on the back leaf, "Probably nobody should read this book."
I am adding this to my tbr just because of this review.
