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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A commonplace book is a collection of memorable words, phrases and sentences the collector has gathered over a lifetime of reading, listening, and just being there. Dwight Garner has published his as Garner’s Quotations. It has its moments, but it is of necessity a reflection of his tastes, which are not often mine, and might or might not be yours. The book is simply an unbroken listing of these lines and their authors. They are grouped around a word or a theme, which might go one for four or five quotes, and then another takes over. There is no progression or division. On the internet, it would be another endless scroll. There are witticisms, opening lines, offhand remarks, song titles, and carefully constructed ad libs. Mostly, there is a lot of sex, but not as much as the four letter words that describe it as well as modifying everything else in life and the universe. As usual in books like this, some quotes are repeated, as the work that goes into volumes like this is nothing like the work that goes into a real book with chapters and a beginning, middle and end. I could find eight I would paste into my own commonplace book, if I had one: Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us. (Ryan Scott) Nothing risqué, nothing gained. (Alexander Woollcott) Ducking for apples – there but for a typographical error is the story of my life. (Dorothy Parker) When someone boasted they were writing a novel, Peter Cook replied “Neither am I.” My life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw (Thomas McGuane) If this is tea, please bring me some coffee, but if it is coffee, please bring me some tea. (Abraham Lincoln) I did not fully understand the dreadful term “terminal illness” until I saw Heathrow for myself. (Dennis Potter) Feminism hasn’t failed, it’s just never been tried. (Hilary Mantel) David Wineberg sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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I'm reasonable sure that the only reason this book was published is that compiler Dwight Garner is a book critic for the New York Times.
I also suspect that the only people who are going to truly enjoy this book are Garner's family, friends, and fans - because the only thing unique about it is that it is a reflection of his psyche. If, like me, you don't know or care about him, or are not a book snob, there is no reason to prefer this volume over any other collection of quotes to be found in other books or just browsing the internet.
Yes, there are jewels here. I highlighted a dozen or more quotations to steal for my own collection. And there was craft involved in ordering them in topics areas which flow from one to the next. But overall. . . I pushed through to the end, but almost didn't bother.
If you are a quote collector you might want to buy it. But you also might prefer to borrow this from the library or find a used paperback version somewhere. ( )