Can you share a short review of your favorite book?

Have you read "On the heights of despair"?

@Augusta: Yes i have, i wish his Transfiguration of Romania would be available though.

@DreamTinker: That was the most disturbing book I ever read, you know, he died old, a reporter once asked him, why didn't you killed yourself if you preach suicide?
The book is not translated?

@Augusta: It's very rare, i got 11 of his books, only 2 from the Romanian period. I believe he was deep down a happy man that strangely felt extremely depressing thoughts as cathartic. See the Better than food review on The Temptation to Exist on youtube, that reviewer nailed it when he mentions his lighter side, also in the preface to a book based on his Transfiguration An Infamous Past it is retold how a picture of him laughing was taken, and he commented - That must be destroyed, no one must know that i laugh:)

The suicide thing dates from a thing his mom said -she said "if i would have known how you'd be, i would have aborted you", he took great pleasure from that in the long run, as far as i could gather from my learning at least.

@DreamTinker: He was a man of his time also, hateful of women and jews.I think I lost my respect towards him when I read about his views on jews and women(on women you can find it in his books).In a way, I was lucky, I read his work in the language he wrote it. Hah, keeping that image...I think you would also like Mircea Eliade.

@Augusta: I don't see him as anti-semitic, quite the contrary, even in his Romanian period... but especially after that his thoughts on the Jews is quite good in Temptation to Exist, it's just not a black and white thing for him. Ludwig Klages though, a guy that inspired him early on, now he was really anti -semitic, and yet he was great friends with some Jewish folk and was even a literary editor for one after they died. Of the times for sure, when people were just basically more intelligent:)