slow reader, so all books are long... but i loved this! captured the same loneliness as camus' the stranger, but much more tender and emphatic. adored the early meet-cute stuff as well :(((
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The way Baldwin writes really makes you feel it. I highly recommend if you like being messy or wonder what it would be like to be a bisexual man in 1950s paris.
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Short and enthralling, with prose that is both breezy and profound and a simple yet confounding story. Itās like a snapshot of someoneās heart. I think the scenery and emotion of this book brought about a natural and gorgeous visualization of the story, which is wonderful to experience.
Sep 20, 2024
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One of my all time favorite books and I would sell my kidneys to read it for the first time.
āDo you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last? since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, hĆ©las! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirtyāthey will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty; you can give each other something which will make both of you betterāforeverāif you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.ā He paused, watching me, and then looked down to his cognac. āYou play it safe long enough,ā he said, in a different tone, āand youāll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and foreverālike me.ā
I cried for 2 days straight after reading this.. TWO DAYS!!
My favorite excerpt from the entire book. James Baldwin is a genius and may his heavenly soul rest in peace.
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