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Summary: Miracle Entertainment
Review: Great book! It's being made into a movie by MiracleEntertainment(mvee). I'm really looking forward to it! (...)
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Summary: This Book has nothing to do with Friedrich Nietzsche
Review: Ok, now this is a good book in style but the fictitious representation of F. Nietzsche is totally rubbish. This can be considered as a good psychological book about life,weaknesses,loneliness etc.. F. Nietzche was not your average human being at all so it is very unfair for Yalom to re-create another Nietzsche from his own mind. Its just a made up Nietzsche far too a weak and poor man that is irrevelant. The Nietzche in this novel is not what Nietzsche is all about so it's very very wrong to try putting him in just a fictional characters' shoes. As a matter of fact Yalom is a good psychotheraphist and he is not a bad writer.The book is allright in general if you only take the names out.
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Summary: So-so intellectual novel
Review: Yalom, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford, has written a decent tale of the encounters between Friedrich Nietzsche (on the brink of authoring _Also Sprach Zarathustra_) and Joseph Breuer, a physician and mentor of Freud, in late 1882. Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome have walk-on roles. Nietzsche has been going from one physician to another for his migraine headaches and other physical ailments. Lou Salome maneuvers him unknowingly toward Breuer, who effects a proto-psychoanalytic cure through the ruse of having Nietzsche treat HIM ... although the treatment of the doctor by the patient becomes something real in the course of the story. The dialogue is not entirely convincing. Yalom obviously knows his Nietzsche as well as his psychology and medicine, and one can sense him slipping his own clinical insights into Breuer's ruminations and projections of the future of "mind healing" (must they always be right on the money?). Nietzsche and Breuer come across more convincingly in their letters and notes -- perhaps because we readers are more used to encountering 19th century luminaries through their written words. The denouement is a little too pat. A stimulating crisis and possible catastrophe seem to develop, and then are jerked from our hands. Perhaps Yalom should not have tried so assiduously to keep his plot within the bounds of historical possibility and instead played more freely with his characters. Still, it is nice to see someone attempt this sort of thing with such substantial and intimidating historic figures.
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Summary: Now I know
Review: Now I know Nietzsche is an human too.. He has feelings..like all of us.. He had his own style... Yalom did a good work..and made the things clear..for the ones whom misunderstands Nietzsche..
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Summary: The Talking Cure
Review: With commendable accuracy Irvin Yalom explores the intriguing historical hypothetical: what if the emerging philosophies of Nietzsche and the theories and practices of Freud had crossed paths? Creative minds incubating ideas to be born of the same time and place naturally share similar cultural influences. Foremost in this instance are the scientific developments in Europe, the emerging philosophic ideas, and the political and social scene in Vienna at the end of the 19th century. The author's speculative plot and characterizations of Nietzsche and Bruer, Lou Salome and Freud engage a reader's imagination to muse on the multiplicity of human experiences that might have influenced these very human creative minds. The author's subtitle, "A Novel of Obsession." would seem to draw fast attention to Dr. Bruer's romantic obsession with his patient, Anna O. It is Bruer's quick insight and diagnositc genius that reveals tht Nietzsche, who seeks Bruer's medical care, may experience a similar, even more devastating obsession--with the beguiling Lou Salome. Both men make attempts to assuage these passionate interruptions by sublimating their feelings. Nietzsche isolates himself to philosophize about life and indulges in compulsive habits; he becomes physically exhausted. Bruer embarks on an exhausting daily routine that does not quiet his fantasies but only widens the emotional distance between him and his loving wife. This misdirection of passion by both men becomes a common bond. Yalom employs an inventive role reversal of doctor and patient that lends greater insight to both characters. (In employing this approach to the plot, Yalom in no way historically discredits Freud as being the inventor of "the talking cure" and the "Father of Psychotherapy.") For Nietzsche and for Bruer, the "cure" is wrought by trust and truth. We see the "magic" of friendship unfold. Only with the most daring emotional honesty can each man attain a new level of self-awareness . . . Nietzsche wept.
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Summary: How much can you stand to reality?
Review: If you're interested in this question, this book is right for you. I think, the novelist Dr. Yalom is very intelligent, because I take your attention that, you have to know and have certain ideas about a subject to write it. So, the book is heavy, but it's all about 'real'life, the 'heavy' and mysterious life. And, because it's a very good novel on this heavy subject, the novelist must be eminent.
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Summary: Not Great Literature
Review: We read this book for our book club. It made me appreciate the artistry that true writers infuse into their books. Yalom is a psychology professor -- not a novelist. His dialogue is extremely heavy handed and awkward. The book does have value to the extent it does make more accessible certain of N's ideas and the origins of psychology. But my advice is stay clear of this book.
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Summary: Midlife Crisis in 1882
Review: I heard that 1st Miracle Group (MVEE), which soon may become Miracle Entertainment, bought the theatrical rights to When Nietzsche Wept. So, I decided to read the book. As I opened the book I thought to myself... who is this Nietzsche person that I should care that he wept? The first chapter did a very good job of answering that question. As I read more of the book, I was impressed with the power that was packed into very succinct phrases to deliver Nietzsche's philosophical message. However, I was not impressed with Nietzsche's philosophy. About 90% of what was shared in the book were thoughts that I have had since I was a teenager. Another 5% came to me in the last two or three years. And the only philosophy that I read is in the Holy Bible. So, I could not help but see Nietzsche as nothing more than an average person just like me who has thoughts that very few people are interested in talking about and some are even afraid to think about. And if I cry, who cares? So, why should I be moved by the tears of another "average person?" Nietzsche is not Jesus. Further, the title of the book takes much away from what I suspect was supposed to be a powerful ending. After about 280 pages, I started to ask myself... when is the man going to start crying? Damn it! Cry already! When he finally did start crying I said to myself... is that it? Please, don't misunderstand me. The book was as good or better than most that I have read. But I hope that the company (above) that makes this book into a movie... no... a film will choose a different title... a title that does not spoil the ending. I also hope that the screenwriter eliminates much of the redundancy that Yalom created by writing about Nietzsche's and Josef's conversations. Between telling us what they talked about he also told us what they were thinking while talking. Then as if we still couldn't comprehend what was going on, he includes each of their journals right after each conversation. Not only was that redundant, it was insulting to this reader's intelligence. At the very least it was very irritating. As I read the book I thought to myself... why do I like this book? Well, I enjoyed psychology as a student in college. I am fascinated by Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. I was also impressed by the way Nietzsche or Yalom made my secret thoughts seem so interesting. The story has interesting, well-developed characters. Except for the redundancy, mentioned above, the story is very well written. However, I believe the company (above) that makes this book into a movie faces a great challenge in making this movie appeal to the masses. If on the other hand, the company's goal is to make a great film that few people watch instead of a movie that is attended by many, they will be successful. After all, they have a good story to work with and the writing is the foundation of any great film. I believe this movie will get the kind of audience that goes to watch movies like Much Ado About Nothing, and Othello. The audience attended those movies more so for the big name stars and not so much for the story. It will take big name stars to attract a similarly sized audience to a film about midlife crisis hidden between conversations about philosophy and examples of psychoanalysis.
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Summary: A magnificent novel!
Review: Nothing more to say! All of us have to be ready to cry when we face our own lifes.
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Summary: Haven't read it yet, but it's gonna be a movie now.
Review: 1st Miracle group (Ticker MVEE) has rights to make a movie from this book. Should be interesting.
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