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Summary: a great poet with heart and soul
Review: After falling in love with Sylvia Plath's works back in my high school days, I have read everything I can find on her or her work. She is inspiring and deep... keeping the imagery alive in every word she has written. I recommend Sylvia VERY highly, even her works for children are not to be missed.
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Summary: a great poet with heart and soul
Review: After falling in love with Sylvia Plath's works back in my high school days, I have read everything I can find on her or her work. She is inspiring and deep... keeping the imagery alive in every word she has written. I recommend Sylvia VERY highly, even her works for children are not to be missed.
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Summary: Published for the sake of publication
Review: I imagine that it's fairly hard to make a diary interesting and most of the diary excerpts found in this book seem to be published just for the sake of publication rather than for the actually content. I've read other diary entries by Plath outside of this book that were very interesting, so keep looking if you want to know about Plath (Wagner-Martin wrote a wonderful biography, however). The stories weren't interesting. I couldn't get into any of them.
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Summary: only for the way obsessed
Review: I love Sylvia Plath. I think she was a brilliant, insightful writer with an incredible sense of craft. I adore The Bell Jar, her poetry is amazing, and I have read biographies on her as well as her letters home, and I am now reading her unabridged journals.BUT... I found Johnny Panic to be tedious. The stories seemed to be lacking Plath's biting humor, and the journal excerpts were edited, and felt stilted read out of context. I was dissappointed.
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Summary: Not Her Poetry / Not The Bell Jar
Review: I wasn't disappointed, per se, as much as surprised that this collection didn't live up to the standards I had set for her after reading the collected poems and The Bell Jar. This fault, I assume, lies more with me than Plath's work here. I consider myself a true fan, but I would suggest this only to those of you firmly interested in taking "all" her work into account. For most readers, though, the collected poems and The Bell Jar should suffice.
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Summary: Boring and dull- but some good essays
Review: Plath was clearly a better poet. Her stories are turgid and forced, and the characters are dull. The Bell Jar is a terrible formulaic book too, that people like to overlook as being bad because Plath is the author. "Oceans 1212W" is an insightful essay, as is "Context" - about poetry vs. prose. A handful of the essays are worth reading, but the short stories are boring and the journals are maudlin and self-pitying.
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Summary: All the loose ends
Review: This book is a collection of short stories, pieces of journals, with bits of poetry in there. Some of the stories are about her and some are just pure fiction, yet it shows the side of Sylvia that is seen in the "Bell Jar". Which means you read Sylvia in the form of stories, not poems. It's all the little things that she did all wrapped into one. However the one thing that's not in here is "The It Doesn't Matter Suit", which is a great little story, so check that out also.
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