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kegifford's review against another edition
dark
funny
informative
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Fantastic read. Janet Malcolm tells the story of grown men fighting like children over the fate of Freud’s letters, and does it with the suspense and pacing of a spy novel.
terribly's review against another edition
4.0
Three fascinating, intelligent personalities involved in a tawdry squabble over Freud's legacy makes for a short but engaging intellectual read.
franklekens's review against another edition
5.0
Stunning.
Pity that the e-book hasn't been proofread a little bit better, there's still quite a few OCR-errors in the text. Though none Freudian that I could see, unless you read that into the statement in the very last chapter that Masson's projected edition of the Freud-Fliess letters were scheduled for publication by a publisher 'for the fall of 1084'.
Pity that the e-book hasn't been proofread a little bit better, there's still quite a few OCR-errors in the text. Though none Freudian that I could see, unless you read that into the statement in the very last chapter that Masson's projected edition of the Freud-Fliess letters were scheduled for publication by a publisher 'for the fall of 1084'.
lilysgross's review against another edition
5.0
written as its own delightfully unraveling analysis (my rationale for why it's impossible to keep track of the dates/secondary characters).
Malcom > Didion
Malcom > Didion
liat_'s review against another edition
3.5
gets a little inside baseball, def preferred the impossible profession, but some killer bits in here
awzitcer's review against another edition
4.0
Not as strong as journalist and murderer, but useful for picturing how petty your analyst acts when you are not in the room
tildahlia's review against another edition
3.0
Janet Malcolm could make a write up of anything interesting. She is a true journalist in understanding how to create tension, draw the reader in only to surprise them with the unexpected and how to delicately balance telling the reader as opposed to letting them form their own conclusions. Enjoyed her writing immensely, but the subject matter of this book was less captivating. Learnt a bit about Freud and the social politics of the psychoanalysis world but really, it is just about male egos and dick swinging and to that extent, it didn’t surprise me as much as I thought. A solid short read though.