Rating:  Summary: Give Us This Day Our Dali... Review: 'Diary of a Genius' is an honest and real study of the world's most acclaimed surrealist painter. Rich in imagery, Dali reveals the canvas of his life with candour, colour and masterful composition. Shadows of self-doubt are subtly juxtaposed beside his brilliant self-awareness, and his reflections are a fusion of form and feeling. Many of the entries are poignant, highlighting the painter's melancholic marriage to mortality towards the end of his life. In his final days, he sought neither separation nor divorce from it, accepting the inevitability that the brush strokes of his being would flourish for only a brief period more. Perhaps the most significant entry revealing Dali's resignation is that appearing on page 136:'Cordoba - June19 1986 Had lunch today in a fish café on the Plaza del Potro. Table for one. Told the waiter that I had a young man's vision clouded by an old man's eyes. He told me to get glasses. I told him to get stuffed olives. The fish tasted like horse. I was disappointed because it usually tasted like camel. When the bill arrived, I realised I had no money so in lieu of cash I presented a napkin sketch entitled 'Apparition of Ungarnished Paella Being Mocked by Pablo Casals on Beach'. The waiter gave me an inferior Picasso self-portrait on drink coaster in lieu of the change. I no longer feel at home with human beings so I think I'll move to New York.' This remarkable book is a work of genius about a genius' work
Rating:  Summary: Genius or Insane ? Find out yourself ! Review: A Book displaying Dali's none conventional way of looking at the world...His world! Weird,Bizzar,but intelligent and loaded with a Serious dose of confusing humour ! I don't know if Dali finds his book insane,but when I bought the book,I couldn't read it in public...simply because I found it too Hilarious and twisted ! Hehehehe
Rating:  Summary: Stimulateing, interresting, and all too insane Review: Dali is an insane being. However, if you like to be stimulated then this is the best book to do the job.I found Diary of a genius to be an "out-there" kinda book. I absoultely adored it. Between Dali's interrestings ideas he kept you laughing. A must read for the half insane.
Rating:  Summary: rhinoceros horns and elephant skulls Review: Egocentric, insightful, humorous, scatalogical, artistic, poetic, profound, intense,surreal, beautiful, philosophical insanity!
Rating:  Summary: Get to know Dali, a genious Review: If you like Dali paintings, you will love this book, it is ultra funny and crazy, it shows you Dali's toughts and every day life, a life that can be everything but common, it is written in a style that will make you finish reading it faster than any other book and craving for more of Dali's writings. GM
Rating:  Summary: Dali goes cinema Review: In the long history of the bizarre ideas of Salvador Dali, his craziest visions about movies are described in this diary. His plans include making a film about explosive ducks and another one in which one hundred Gypsies eat an elephant in the streets of Madrid. I higly recommend this book for anyone who needs a good laugh.
Rating:  Summary: Dali goes cinema Review: In the long history of the bizarre ideas of Salvador Dali, his craziest visions about movies are described in this diary. His plans include making a film about explosive ducks and another one in which one hundred Gypsies eat an elephant in the streets of Madrid. I higly recommend this book for anyone who needs a good laugh.
Rating:  Summary: Diary of a knob-stroker Review: Please, next time around, stick to the dribbly clocks and misshapen heads. Reading this is like watching a man with dirty hands operate on your elderly mother, while smoking a particularly foul-smelling pipe, and laughing at you.
Rating:  Summary: hilariously bizarro reflections of a self centered nut-case Review: the great dali offers a glimpse of the workings of his twisted mind with chapters dedicated to subjects such as: the universe as a four-buttock continum, over 100 uses for a whale bone and how he turned into a fish. a must read for pure laughter and looney inspiration.
Rating:  Summary: Salvador Dalà Review: Watch, Feel, Believe. Salvador DalÃ, the great master and his thoughts will live Forever. Amen.
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