tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post1271969697495730517..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: "No doubt this Giacomo Casanova was a most worthless and profligate scoundrel," Or, Casanova's History of My Life, "one of the great cryptograms of literatureLevi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-51586041928067527302011-09-08T22:22:08.356-05:002011-09-08T22:22:08.356-05:00I actually read the whole of the memoirs back in t...I actually read the whole of the memoirs back in the summer of 1999, in one long rush. They're too long, they're disorientingly full of characters, places, and incidents, but they're hard to put down. <br /><br />It's the sort of book I find myself turning back to briefly every once in a while--to read a section more or less at random--and expect that I'll read en toto again at some point in my life.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-19084300593696864812011-09-08T19:24:03.350-05:002011-09-08T19:24:03.350-05:00Any aspiratiopns yourself for tackling the memoirs...Any aspiratiopns yourself for tackling the memoirs?jon faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04375593165985428533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-33307296946441370412011-09-08T03:55:47.113-05:002011-09-08T03:55:47.113-05:00I LOVE Casanova's Memoirs: even though he may,...I LOVE Casanova's Memoirs: even though he may, on his own evidence, have even been a rapist (the only one of his crimes I ought not be able to forgive), he's so incredibly likeable. And that edition is a delight, with the spine image.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com