Seize the Day

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• Saul Bellow: Seize the Day

  For the second leg of my attempt to read Saul Bellow’s novels – or, as I’ve read several already, should I say to enjoy Saul Bellow’s novels – in fact, as I’m not that ambitious, make that to get Saul Bellow’s novels – I thought I would go for one th ... (read full critics)

  theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  Have you ever seized the day? Have you ever desired to have the guts to do it? How many times have you thought of what could have been? Single spots of your life, when you just stayed still, watching, doing the wrong thing. Past failures are roots for present tragedies. Chained to the past, that's w ... (continue)

  Have you ever seized the day? Have you ever desired to have the guts to do it? How many times have you thought of what could have been? Single spots of your life, when you just stayed still, watching, doing the wrong thing. Past failures are roots for present tragedies. Chained to the past, that's what we are, according to Saul Bellow. And the past is the only thing we'll got, at the end.

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  The plot was winding and the descriptions came suddenly from nowhere like to just fill in the space. There are many authors who are better in descriptive writing. It should give you an image to your head but this time everything was in fragments. Not necessarily waste of time but wasn't at all impre ... (continue)

  The plot was winding and the descriptions came suddenly from nowhere like to just fill in the space. There are many authors who are better in descriptive writing. It should give you an image to your head but this time everything was in fragments. Not necessarily waste of time but wasn't at all impressed. I hope other works by Bellow are different.

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  s u v i said on Mar 25, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 144 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 014118485X
• ISBN-13: 9780141184852
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Apr 26, 2001
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Others

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