Found a book which analyzes E & D's journals

It's called "A Teenage Philosophy of Awareness & Existense" by Mathijs Koenraadt and it's really good. I found it for free as a pdf. It's basically an academic analysis of their journals but in easy-to-read language instead of sequipedalian pedantic academic language.

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Sweet find, thanks for sharing. I'm always amazed at how you guys find this stuff.

Nice!

Very nice. I'll read it in the next few days or so, and add it to the "consice guide" post.

Read it, tis actually very short because most of the book is actually this guys version of the journal transcripts.

My own impression is that it feels more like some sort of college term paper rather than an more seriou study. Its written in a large font, lots of blank pages between chapters too, as well as a college-style simplistic bibliography at the end. Really feels liek someone's term paper.

As far as content goes, He imho is trying to dig too deep especially as far as Dylan goes, as far as stating that a longer life "might have made him a great American philosopher."

His comments on Eric's writings, are peppered with big words and references to Yuval Harari, Steve Jobs and Charlie cahplin of all people. However, while his interpretation of Eric is simple, its not relaly all that wrong. Its just pretty surface-level simple (despite the big words and references).

With dylan however he's going full circle batshit, making references to astrophysics and whatnot. I don't buy this at all. Guy certainly doesn't decode cryptic Dylan more than anyone else before him, but tries to pretend that he does in fact decode him.

So yeah... the part about Eric is mostly ok, no-nonsense, just short. The part about Dylan is just crazy and fails to connect. Overlal I'm not impressed with the book, although I commend the effort to actually look into the journals and try to write some sort of coherent interpretation.

Good share. thanks