Customer Reviews
More Than A Feeling - By: Racheblue, 04 Nov 2004 
This book takes literaryness to a whole new level. It surpasses impressionism, even expressionism at it's best. It is a whirlwind of emotions. Rather than a mere book to be read, think of it as an experience to be savoured, a black-hole of emotion in which to hurl yourself - enjoy the ride!
beautiful - By: rhian_eve, 12 Jun 2004 About once a year I sit down & read this book. Partly because I think you need to read it more than once to fully understand Smart's prose & partly because her style of writing & her use of words take my breath away. She tells her story in such a unique way that it is sometimes hard to grasp exactly what is being said but the feeling behind the words is unmistakeable. Reading this book is like reading pure emotion. When you come to the end of the novel you're left knowing the pain of love & the depth with which it hits the heroine. She conducts an affair with a married man & knowing how closely the story relates to the history of Elizabeth Smart & George Barker always makes it feel like I'm reading the author's thoughts. It seems that through the pain she lives for love & exists for it completely for as long as it lasts.
If you like depth in a book I recommend this one. If you like By Grand Central Station I sat Down & Wept then Smart's The Assumption of Rogues & Rascals is just as beatiful.
Classic. Unmissable - By: John MacArthur, 12 Oct 2003 Quite a marvellous, evocative piece of writing. The subtext is delightful in subtlety & the interweaved plot lines elegant & deeply poignant. Visionaries, poets & dreamers will love it. We catch glimpses of her soul.
Unintelligible - By: , 28 Jul 2003 
I never read such pretentious rubbish. It pains me that people are paying good money for an unintelligible string of dislocated words that add up to nothing & mean nothing. I did, on the recommendation of these reviews. A story should be easy to read, accessible. This patently is not. Thank God it is only short. It is the literary equivalent of posing, but very, very inelegantly.
essential melodramatic prose, a true true classic - By: , 02 Dec 1999 this is *the* best longform prose work ever written. it's a smalll book, but each word takes time to read as it's thick & rich with meaning. it details elizabeth smart's love affair with english poet george barker (who i might add was already married, while seeing the canadian-born smart). from meeting to closure, it holds the reader in a sustained literary climax. each new line presenting a different diamond in the rough. i would recommend this to anyone who enjoys rimbaud-esque works.
