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lennofspades's review
2.0
I don't know what to feel about this book. It's sad, yes. But I don't think it's a poem book at all.
amarrymeinbostonacademic's review
3.0
I feel like poetry is hard to rate because you can feel vastly different from poem to poem (writing and reading poetry). There were points where the author had me and then lost me and had me and lost me again. The ex girlfriend obsession was a bit much and probably one of my least favorite parts of the poetry collection.
I can sympathize with having to cope with mental illness personally or loving someone who does. I'm bipolar myself and I think that the author of this book is too though his experience with his disorder is not similar to what I've experienced (so it's possible I took the title far too literally). It's a case by case situation for each person because everyone's lives are so different which is probably why I wasn't able to agree with everything he said.
I agree with some of the other readers that it seemed that this book was written as a therapeutic release for the author. He had some really good lines but some of the poems fell a little flat for me. I was hoping for more.
I can sympathize with having to cope with mental illness personally or loving someone who does. I'm bipolar myself and I think that the author of this book is too though his experience with his disorder is not similar to what I've experienced (so it's possible I took the title far too literally). It's a case by case situation for each person because everyone's lives are so different which is probably why I wasn't able to agree with everything he said.
I agree with some of the other readers that it seemed that this book was written as a therapeutic release for the author. He had some really good lines but some of the poems fell a little flat for me. I was hoping for more.
pamalalala_'s review against another edition
2.0
I understand, I've been through this phase of my life where writing poetry is the only thing that keeps me afloat. It's therapeutic and it helps a lot. But I am rating this based on the poems and the effect of them to me which is to say, nothing. It didn't give me any feelings at all. Maybe we need to be there to know the feeling.
salmaamr's review against another edition
1.0
Wow. I’ve really jinxed myself when I said that the poetry books of which I came across are good. This was terrible and a true waste of my time. I don’t want to be mean but this book seems like it was written by a child. I’ve read better poems by children. I’m sorry to the author but this truly is not a good poetry book at all.
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