About this title: Drawn from her original, uncensored journals, this is an intimate account of Anais Nin's sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year--from 1931 to the end of 1932.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780156400572ISBN:015640057X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 281 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780156400572ISBN:015640057X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No marks or tears; near fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 281 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780156400572ISBN:015640057X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 281 p. Audience: General/trade. Light edgewear, appears unread, 101 read more
Description: Reader copy. This book has medium cover wear, light cover lift, light spine tilt, some creases on covers, light page edge wear, ~5 pages have underlining, some writting on inside back cover. I will ship this book out on the next business day! Each book individually hand cleaned. read more
Description: Fine. Almost in new condition. Book shows only very slight signs of use. Cover and binding are undamaged and pages show minimal use. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. This book has medium cover wear, light cover lift, spine creases, light spine tilt, light creases on covers, light page edge wear, light natural browning on covers-page edges. I will ship this book out on the next business day! Each book individually hand cleaned. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1990-10-29
ISBN-13:9780156400572ISBN:015640057X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1990-10-29
ISBN-13:9780156400572ISBN:015640057X
Description: Good. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
"Talk about packing an emotional punch. Reading Nin's diary was at times like reading my own thoughts on paper...except she managed to be far more eloquent. I will always be in awe of people who are able to corral their emotional chaos with pen and ink.
Keeping a diary is a self-involved indulgence. I keep a journal myself, so I should know. My point is that for every page I exclaimed over ("My god, that is so brilliant! Me too, Anais, me too!") there was another page in which I cringed ("Enough already, Anais, get over yourself). I imagine this book would be best digested in small bites, savoring her language and brutal honesty. I read it over the course of a single week and swallowing it so quickly led to literary indigestion."
"Reading Henry and June inspired my mind to wander back to all the great hours I shared with one of my favorite lovers. He was really good. In fact, thinking about it right now makes me feel...waaaarmmm.
I'd been trying to wean myself off a chemical dependency I'd acquired--from the smell of my lover's sex sweat. I wanted be attracted to other people who were more emotionally available. So it goes. But my god if Nin's memoir didn't have me writing love letters against my own (usually)better judgment. Shame on me.
Henry and June had me craving the good sex. The kind of sex that leaves you buzzing for weeks. After 12 hour session's sheets have dried from sweat, saliva; and everything else that goes beyond the emotional verge of just needing.
It had me craving the kind of sex that tricks you into thinking you could love someone unconditionally. After not knowing them that long. Even if you knew they might never want to see you again. After you let them do that really dirty thing with your goldfish, two wax candles and a portable corkscrew. In public.
It's about sharing passion. Being filled with electricity. Beauty from that shared passion. Sharing versus possessing. A sensual tingling heat. Mingling familiar bodies for affection. Love, lovers and love making. Kindred spirits exploring. Hot and romantic. Sex. All within a flowery, well-articulated diary.
Good stuff. Really.
Lovers like mine and Nin's can exist. They can come and go for everyone. As long as we let ourselves embrace passion as a facet of exploration. Versus the conventional taboo of clinical coupling--being the only way. I'm serious.
Sometimes it's a good risk to trust our wanting. Our heart. Smells. Aching. The potential to be vulnerable shouldn't feel so dangerous.
This is a big reason why the language of sex seems so exciting. So controversial. As opposed to the easy preference of avoiding the language, and judgment, by either treating sex as a clown car for whore orgies or some blessed union for baby making.
Sex is one of my favorite ways to get to know someone incredibly attractive or charming and funny. It is also a great way to have orgasms. As opposed to masturbation. Orgasms are great aren't they? Henry and June is filled with lovely people with imaginable accents having orgasms all over the place. In beds too.
There is also a lot of kissing and foreplay. Butter is mentioned a few times. And Henry Miller is sexual predator with a heart of gold trying to write a book. I want to have sex with someone just like Henry Miller. Soon. Or just before I'm 50, blown out and lose my edge. Either way I'm sure the sex would be really good."
"Anyone with a hint of voyeur within them would love to read journals from one of the great writers from the 1930s. Anais Nin was a writer's writer-she wrote copiously within her journals from a very young age and her writing is like a pearl found in the middle of the ocean. Her life and love affairs set against the backdrop of Paris make one long for jazz music, a nice glass of red, a skinny cigarette to smoke...and a new lover to share it with. I would highly recommend reading this unexpurgated journal, followed by anything that Anais wrote, followed by reading 'Tropic of Cancer' by Henry Miller."
"When I first started this book I loved it. The way she described being with her lovers was so beautiful and sensual. I could relate to the way that Anais felt the need to explore sexually and liberate herself. The more I read though, the more I began to see her as selfish. It took me so long to read because the more I read the more I was getting annoyed with what can only be described as her incessant whining. At first I thought her relationship with Henry was something beautiful and artistic; it was as if they needed each other in ways June and Hugo could not provide. But then she seems to develop that relationship with every man in the novel, and she somehow justifies each relationship. I think I was just disappointed because I expected some sort of change in her by the end. Overall, I gave it 3 stars because her writing really is beautiful, at times I found myself underlining almost everything. It's just her personality I dislike."
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