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The Sorrows of Young Werther: The Definitive Translation
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

John Zelazny (Goodreads Author),

Jonathan Ashleigh (Goodreads Author) (Translator)

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I wanted to love this book all the way to the end but I lost interest after the question we are waiting to be answered was revealed...
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This book jumped around time and relationships in a beautiful way, it's relationship to music caught a nerve with me and I would recommend it to most people. ...more
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Jonathan Ashleigh and 3 other people liked Corey's review of The Sorrows of Young Mike: "What does it mean to love someone? The Sorrows of Young Mike is a startlingly human story of a young man's decision to travel around the world - leaving behind his high school sweetheart. Young Mike hones in on the dichotomy of the lies we tell ourselv" Read more of this review »
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“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would like to remember. Maybe I’m not ready to forget, and maybe you’re not ready to remember. This is what I recall; I’m sorry if it is a little spotty. I suppose it is what I have the strength to forget…”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

tags: goethe, reading, story-telling, writing

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“However confused I become, I will always hold close the notion that I could find freedom. I could leave this prison if I liked, if I wanted to … or if I didn’t see any other way. And if I did, I would not give you the satisfaction of burying me under a priest.”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

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“This is another one of those creatures whom, like the pelican, I have fed with the blood of my own heart... There were special circumstances close at hand, urgent, troubling me, and they resulted in the state of mind that produced Werther. I had lived, loved, and suffered much... That's what it was.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I just want a soft creature with shiny eyes to lay with in the dark, the glint of her eyes reflected back at mine, a last few whispers, a kiss goodnight, to calm me down but most of all … to make me feel alive when morning shines.”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

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“I can feel it in the rotten air tonight/ In the tips of my fingers, in the skin on my face/ In the weak last gasp of the evening's dying light/ In the way those eyes I've always loved illuminate this place/ Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell/ Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell/ I will walk down to the end with you/ If you will come all the way down with me”
― John Darnielle

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