If you have had someone in your life who has stayed in your thick and thin.Van Gogh’s spirit my help, rekindle your spirit. Van Gogh went through this pretty much all his life but his sheer love to paint rescued him till the end. If you are going through a bad phase or you are consumed by a feeling that people are unfair, that life is unfair and that you are under-appreciated.Writers, designers, dancers, film makers will relate a lot. Every artist must read it, even if they are not painters. Vincent Van Gogh, common! That sheer fact, and the excellence and innovativeness of his paintings should make you want to read it, and know how did this person come to be such a big artist. Peasant Woman by Van Gogh Five Reasons why you should read Lust for Life (not an exhaustive list of reasons): This book has the power to emotionally break you and then transform you to a different (better) person. I read some light hearted humor or didn’t read anything else at all. I kept taking breaks in the middle of the reading. If you saw someone, even a stranger, take a blade and cut themselves slowly right in front of you, how would it feel? Some junctures of his life (as mentioned in the book) are too intense to handle. It is said that he had gone crazy towards the end, and was even admitted to a mental asylum.

Van Gogh’s paintings were called ‘ugly, imperfect, unusual’ paintings, all through the 850 paintings, until he committed suicide in 1853, at the age of 37. Hard work doesn’t guarantee appreciation. And how in spite of trying your best and sometimes, even more, you’d go unnoticed or even criticized.

After reading this book you’d know what it takes to achieve excellence to achieve one’s passion. Before this book, you’d know that Vincent Van Gogh was an amazing painter. Lust for Life shall always remain the most detailed and closer to reality, a historical novel of Van Gogh’s life. Image Courtesy: įor starters, this book is by Irving Stone who wrote extremely well-researched biographies, all his life. That’s perhaps how I read books a little quicker than most people do. I don’t believe in ‘Book Fidelity’ (read one book at a time, and finish from start to end), I read multiple books in the same period of time, and very much naturally. I finished it just at the beginning of March, which is really a long period of time for me. Lust for Life by Irving Stone (Vincent Van Gogh’s biography) came into my life early this year, somewhere in mid-January 2016, recommended by a dear friend. Also, most classic books have plenty of book reviews already so why one more? Umm, because everyone feels differently and pens differently.

Complicated because a person can only give their opinion or how they felt about a book, generalizations generally don’t serve the purpose. They are simple because you just have to say how it felt. Book reviews can be really complicated or the simplest of all.

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