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alyssapusateri's review against another edition
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting
Minor: Mental illness and Sexual content
oliviareese's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Child abuse
12dejamoo's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
This collection was so weird.
There was something very disingenuous in saying 'you think I'm rich and I am but not how you think' and 'my thoughts are not for sale' when you are rich and I literally paid for this poetry collection. But other than that I felt a lot of the poems had a lot of value. Some were that classic moody vibe you expect from Lana Del Rey and sort of is a reflection of the mood you feel when you're all in your feelings and selfish and you want to, like, write sad quotes in a diary that you don't keep idk. But then some I actually really liked, which hit me somewhere in my heart and I would return to. I think my favourite was SportsCruiser.
Some of the poems to me read as closer to song lyrics, but most managed to read as poems. I did find it weird all the references to her as a poet or relying on poetry or whatever, just because it's not something she is known for. She says that the title poem is the first she ever wrote so it seems weird to brand herself entirely as a poet throughout the book, but then again if I didn't know who she was outside of the poetry I wouldn't think that was weird so that's just a kind of irrelevant context thing.
If you want happy poetry, this is not the collection for you. I mean, there were a handful about escaping abusive situations which I liked and had a more hopeful side, but none which were explicitly happy (even the one called 'happy' which felt a bit bittersweet - this is also the one where she says she's not rich so eh).
There was something very disingenuous in saying 'you think I'm rich and I am but not how you think' and 'my thoughts are not for sale' when you are rich and I literally paid for this poetry collection. But other than that I felt a lot of the poems had a lot of value. Some were that classic moody vibe you expect from Lana Del Rey and sort of is a reflection of the mood you feel when you're all in your feelings and selfish and you want to, like, write sad quotes in a diary that you don't keep idk. But then some I actually really liked, which hit me somewhere in my heart and I would return to. I think my favourite was SportsCruiser.
Some of the poems to me read as closer to song lyrics, but most managed to read as poems. I did find it weird all the references to her as a poet or relying on poetry or whatever, just because it's not something she is known for. She says that the title poem is the first she ever wrote so it seems weird to brand herself entirely as a poet throughout the book, but then again if I didn't know who she was outside of the poetry I wouldn't think that was weird so that's just a kind of irrelevant context thing.
If you want happy poetry, this is not the collection for you. I mean, there were a handful about escaping abusive situations which I liked and had a more hopeful side, but none which were explicitly happy (even the one called 'happy' which felt a bit bittersweet - this is also the one where she says she's not rich so eh).
Graphic: Emotional abuse
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Mental illness
Minor: Forced institutionalization and Alcoholism
sugarpal's review against another edition
1.0
- the worst published poetry i've ever read
- how did anyone like this??
- read like the diary entries of a 14 year old girl on christmas vacation in the bahamas who just has too many first world problems
- there was potential to some of del rey's ideas, really! but the poems felt so unedited, like she just scribbled whatever came into her head for an hour a day and then sent the pages off to the publisher without bothering to revise. poetry should be tight, every line and word intentional, creating a clear meaning or feeling. this was not that
- at least it was short
- some of the pictures were ok
- the "haiku" at the end were a joke
- so were many lines of her 'poetry': highlights include "i'm the crying crustacean," "SoulCycle you to death," and more
- 1 star i lost brain cells
- how did anyone like this??
- read like the diary entries of a 14 year old girl on christmas vacation in the bahamas who just has too many first world problems
- there was potential to some of del rey's ideas, really! but the poems felt so unedited, like she just scribbled whatever came into her head for an hour a day and then sent the pages off to the publisher without bothering to revise. poetry should be tight, every line and word intentional, creating a clear meaning or feeling. this was not that
- at least it was short
- some of the pictures were ok
- the "haiku" at the end were a joke
- so were many lines of her 'poetry': highlights include "i'm the crying crustacean," "SoulCycle you to death," and more
- 1 star i lost brain cells
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcohol
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