On The Pleasure of Hating
by William Hazlitt | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0141018925 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0141018925 Global Overview for this book
Registered by rem_STP-921375 on 5/3/2005
6 journalers for this copy...
From Penguin's beautifully-designed Great Ideas series.
Arrived safely today, many thanks PW :o) Will read and pass on!
Journal Entry 4 by AngelChild at Great Expectations, London Road in Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 17, 2006
RELEASE NOTES:
Since studying Philosophy with the OU i've come to realise that i'm never gunna understand it lol.... So hence, all my philosophy books are going out into the big bad world.....
I'm taking this one to the Reading Meet with me :o)
Since studying Philosophy with the OU i've come to realise that i'm never gunna understand it lol.... So hence, all my philosophy books are going out into the big bad world.....
I'm taking this one to the Reading Meet with me :o)
Journal Entry 5 by SwanOfKennet from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Interesting chap, Hazlitt. Got himself into a but of a mess with a young girl he was obsessed with.
I'l no doubt dip in and out of this.
I'l no doubt dip in and out of this.
Arrived in my NSSSS parcel. This was a good pick as I really like books like this. Thank you!
I got this book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Thanks!
I've been attempting to read these essays, and indeed did read The Fight and The Indian Jugglers in the full. I almost managed to finish On the Spirit of Monarchy, but then gave up.
Hazlitt was indeed an interesting chap (see Wikipedia), but it seems painfully obvious that at some point he must have been paid by the word. He repeats himself constantly, and I tend to admire a more compact and elegant essay-writing style.
I did enjoy the setting of The Fight, but the description of the fight itself disgusted me to no end. I am indeed one of these faint and fussy ladies who can't abide a bout of good healthy English fun. Urgh.
An interesting little collection, and I sort of wish I had the patience to wade it though, but there are better essays in the world - I'll read those instead.
And the book continues on its travels!
Hazlitt was indeed an interesting chap (see Wikipedia), but it seems painfully obvious that at some point he must have been paid by the word. He repeats himself constantly, and I tend to admire a more compact and elegant essay-writing style.
I did enjoy the setting of The Fight, but the description of the fight itself disgusted me to no end. I am indeed one of these faint and fussy ladies who can't abide a bout of good healthy English fun. Urgh.
An interesting little collection, and I sort of wish I had the patience to wade it though, but there are better essays in the world - I'll read those instead.
And the book continues on its travels!
Journal Entry 9 by harmaja at - Irgendwo in Herford in Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (9/25/2009 UTC) at - Irgendwo in Herford in Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Will be released somewhere in Herford during 25.-27.9. Happy reading!
Will be released somewhere in Herford during 25.-27.9. Happy reading!
Well, I found On the Pleasure of Hating in my bookshelf again! Apparently Erinne grabbed it before I could release it, and eventually he even read the book through. Good for him - I never made it past the third essay. Erinne says he enjoyed the pugilism stuff, but the rest of it was a bit dull.
Now I'll see if I can release this book for real!
Now I'll see if I can release this book for real!
I brought this book to the BC meet-up tonight!
Caught at Edinburgh meetup. Thank you.
