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phonecharm's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book like nothing else. I carried it with my everywhere for weeks after finishing it, I even wrote notes in the book (a sin by my standards) but I did it because I loved this work so much. I read it at work, I read it before sleeping and I read it over and over.
As always Leonard Cohen has a type of poetic music that is in all of his words. Not a word seems out of place or wasted. Each page flows into the next with such ease. Shout out to that 1990 Christian Slater film for introducing me to Cohen when I was 14.
As always Leonard Cohen has a type of poetic music that is in all of his words. Not a word seems out of place or wasted. Each page flows into the next with such ease. Shout out to that 1990 Christian Slater film for introducing me to Cohen when I was 14.
gabsimoneau's review against another edition
5.0
I’ve always loved Leonard Cohen’s music. I love his love for montreal and for beauty.
This book is exquisite. I has drawing and thoughts and poems.
I finally understood why i have this strong bond to his music with the prince of asturias acceptance speech. Everything comes back to Spain.
I love this book with all of my heart. I plan to buy multiple copies and distribute them around me.
This book is exquisite. I has drawing and thoughts and poems.
I finally understood why i have this strong bond to his music with the prince of asturias acceptance speech. Everything comes back to Spain.
I love this book with all of my heart. I plan to buy multiple copies and distribute them around me.
literarytaurean's review against another edition
4.0
It breaks my heart to not give this 5 stars. Most of it is great like Leonard always is but because this was published after his death, not everything is necessarily up to his standards of publication which is clear
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
2.0
‘Leads me to the penthouse window tells me out his plan to counterfeit the moon’
‘If you have a wall, a bare wall, in your house, all the walls in my house are bare and i love bare walls, the only thing i would put up on one of my beloved bare walls, not beloved, it doesn’t need beloved, the wall is fine as it is’
‘Queen of lilac queen of blue who is moving on who is kidding who’
‘You want it darker, we kill the flame’
‘If you have a wall, a bare wall, in your house, all the walls in my house are bare and i love bare walls, the only thing i would put up on one of my beloved bare walls, not beloved, it doesn’t need beloved, the wall is fine as it is’
‘Queen of lilac queen of blue who is moving on who is kidding who’
‘You want it darker, we kill the flame’
catchingfire99's review against another edition
3.0
Disappointment is a word I could use for this one.
nooshin's review against another edition
4.0
I am the light of
my generation
and the radio
and the refrigerator
I loved the Prince of Asturias Award speech, the drawings, and some of the narrations (Michael Shannon is phenomenal); but I would be lying if I said this book was an addition of much importance to the published works of Leonard Cohen, as the proportion of genuinely unseen material it contained would hardly amass to 40% of the book.
claudiuo's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.25
kingorgan's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death