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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

bailed

I can hardly believe I read 3/4 of this book and had to put it down. I could not tolerate any more of him. I kept thinking he might eventually improve as a person but he continued on and on with his terrible ways. His writing was what kept me going I guess. To me he was the epitome of self-derogatory and generally confused. I guess if one is interested in negative aspects of human nature this book would be enjoyable/

shawnmooney I applaud this bail! 😴🥱😴🥱 3y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Thanks @shawnmooney 3y

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This quote is hilarious given I only believe 30-40% of what he has shared so far. As an old man, he gives detailed accounts about events which occurred in his early childhood to adulthood. I am really enjoying the book though. Written in the first person, it really seems like he is having a private conversation with me.

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This dude seems so inept. But, he wrote a memoir that is deemed a classic and I am enjoying it. I think it‘s about the writing style and not the nature of his life.

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I enjoy him. Not sure why. #1001bookstoreadbeforeyoudie

SW-T Sometimes certain writers just move us for no particular reason. Always fun to find them! 🥰 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Indeed @SW-T 5y

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads

Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can‘t get enough of these first-person narratives. Maybe soon I will read a novel but real lives are just as good or better to me.

merelybookish Woolf's diaries!! I've read the first two. Hoping to read the rest this year! 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Loving them @merelybookish 5y

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Tamra

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have a migraine and this isn‘t helping. I‘m bored out of my skull with this already, maybe that accounts for the pain. 😖

Speaking of Paine, I was delightfully surprised and entertained this week by his caustic rhetoric in Age Of Reason. I had not been looking forward to it, but I ended up admiring his courageous skepticism. It was refreshing in light of all the “heathens be damned to hell” literature that came before. 😈

writerlibrarian I feel asleep reading Rousseau. Had to read him for a class many years ago. I almost questioned, almost staying in that class... then we had Diderot and he was so much better. 5y

Tamra @writerlibrarian 😴 Funny! It‘s not so much that I was bored reading his autobiography initially, but having to spend so much time with it in writing a paper is like a form of enslavement he despised so much. 5y

ravenlee I know I read this...but have absolutely no recollection of it. Must have been great! 😆 5y

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Tamra @ravenlee Do you remember the spanking???? 😳 5y

rwmg The translator should have just used her initial and surname 5y

ravenlee @rwmg 😆 @Tamra nooo....am I going to have to dig it out? Maybe I forgot it for a reason. 5y

Tamra @rwmg 😆👏🏾 good one! 5y

Tamra @ravenlee 😈 A little bit of masochism goes a long ways! 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads It was so awful 3y

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Tamra

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In reluctant acknowledgment of our snow and December temps, I pulled out my winter mug. Peppermint Twist tea.

My plans for today. 🤓 I haven‘t decided whether I like Rousseau as a writer or person yet.

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Tamra

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Assigned reading today and my expectations are not high. 😏

BarbaraBB I still need to read this one too and am not looking forward to it 😉 5y

Tamra @BarbaraBB this is one I wouldn‘t have read voluntarily. 😜 I would satisfy whatever curiosity I had with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. 5y

BarbaraBB I‘d do the same. But if I want to read those #1001books I must read this one too! 5y

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Tamra @BarbaraBB 👍🏾 5y

ravenlee I read this for my MA, and while I remember very little, I don‘t recall it being too bad to get through. Not as dense as Kant, for instance. Good luck! 5y

Reviewsbylola Mine wouldn‘t be either. 😆 5y

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Leftcoastzen

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happy Birthday to Rousseau! Born in (wow)1712.

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saresmoore

Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confession: I did not read this in 2006 when I purchased it. Nor have I read it, since. What‘s worse? There‘s a good chance I never will read it! Sorry, Dr. Borucki.

#24in48 #sharetheshame

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LeahBergen 😂😂😂 I have a few of these types of books myself. 7y

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GoneFishing

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts, but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject. I love to amuse myself with trifles, by beginning a hundred things and never finishing one of them, by going or coming as I take either into my head, by changing my project at every instant...

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