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this might be my favorite book.
The 1 star review is not a reflection on Rilke, but the editor and his "considerations," Mr. John Mood. If you're thinking of reading Rilke, please try Letters to a Young Poet instead. Mr. Mood is quite clear from the get go that this collection is the way he sees Rilke and his hope is to remedy the state of affairs in which Rilke is praised for the spirituality of his works, instead of the sex. I was skeptical - it's not like our culture is so spirituality based to begin with. But the real kicker for me is when he takes Rilke's famous passage about living the questions and being unable to live the answers and Mr. Mood launches into an essay about how this is solely about sex. Really? There are no other questions to ponder? At that point, I decided I could learn more and gain more from Rilke's work without Mr. Mood's help - and also wished I could exchange this for a different collection of Rilke's work.
Love the first two books of the Three Muskateer saga, but this book and the one that came before it really slowed the whole thing down and made it much more of a soap opera. Plowed through the previous book into this one only because the books before were so much fun, but had enough when I was in the middle of this and didn't finish.