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uniskorn's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
There’s really something about reading stream of consciousness while intoxicated. Would recommend.
pino_sabatelli's review against another edition
2.0
Pur avendo approcciato la lettura con tanta buona volontà, confesso che il mio giudizio finale su questo libro è rispettosamente, ma fermamente, negativo. Si fosse trattato di un romanzo coevo alla temperie della beat generation, avrebbe avuto almeno un valore documentale. Qui, però, stiamo parlando di un libro pubblicato nel 2019, in occasione del centesimo compleanno di Ferlinghetti: il discorso cambia e il giudizio pure.
La recensione completa su https://www.ifioridelpeggio.com/little-boy-di-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
La recensione completa su https://www.ifioridelpeggio.com/little-boy-di-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
crazy_mr_earl's review
3.0
Brilliant stream of consciousness pieces but sometimes edging into unreadable. And by brilliant, I mean brilliant. A writer caught in his dotage, tasked with the unforgiving task of making sense of it all.
wildgurl's review
4.0
Little Boy
by:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2019
Doubleday
4.0 / 5.0
This book was written and published when Ferlinghetti was 99 years old. His writing style, stream of consciousness, either endears him to you, or turns you off. I love his use of this style, and is a perfect representation of him as a person; constantly doing, thinking, learning, evolving. Its Ferlinghetti in words.
This is a fast and intense book. Autobiographical. Beat Rants. Philosophical. I enjoyed this quick one. What an amazing mind.
by:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2019
Doubleday
4.0 / 5.0
This book was written and published when Ferlinghetti was 99 years old. His writing style, stream of consciousness, either endears him to you, or turns you off. I love his use of this style, and is a perfect representation of him as a person; constantly doing, thinking, learning, evolving. Its Ferlinghetti in words.
This is a fast and intense book. Autobiographical. Beat Rants. Philosophical. I enjoyed this quick one. What an amazing mind.
paulataua's review against another edition
3.0
…, I was in the manger with an ass, I have seen the Laughing Woman in Luna Park outside the Fun House in a great rainstorm still laughing, I have heard the sound of revelry by night, I have wandered lonely as a crowd, I have engaged in silent exile and cunning, I flew too near the sun and my wax wings fell off, ….
Grew up in the period and was certainly influenced by Ferlinghetti, Corso, Kerouac, and that whole generation. I just had to take this trip and drift along with Ferlinghetti as he covered a century of thoughts and feelings expressed in one long meandering prose piece. I enjoyed the trip and the memories. It had its moments, but just too few to make it memorable.
bkish's review against another edition
5.0
I strongly believe that many people will not be able to comprehend or appreciate this book by Ferlinghetti (who I know). It is a stream of consciousness a format that was used brilliantly by James Joyce who wrote Ulysses. This book is not for the average Joe or Jane and it is the average Joe or Jane who Ferlinghetti is evaluating and dismissing as part of the despair he feels about our future
this is also a long poem and Ferlinghetti is a poet
Im very very very curious to know when he wrote this book that was recently released by his also aging agent. Ferlinghetti just lived to 100 and he is alive. There was a big celebration of him here in north beach SF mostly at his bookstore City Lights. As best I can figure out from Little Boy he was at least 95 when he wrote this cause he talks about the current Pope who became that in 2013.
this is his memoir and it is Honest and bold and raw
Lawrence is telling the story of his life from the viewpoint of a man in his 90s. And he is not an average man. This is a man who has shaped our history.
I talked yesterday to another local known Poet who is a good friend of Lawrence. He says he had been writing this for years and yes it is probably recent. He also said that Lawrence like many writers has been heavily influenced by James Joyce. After Jack and I talked he called Lawrence to tell him I read his book...
I will reread it in a few weeks...
Judy
this is also a long poem and Ferlinghetti is a poet
Im very very very curious to know when he wrote this book that was recently released by his also aging agent. Ferlinghetti just lived to 100 and he is alive. There was a big celebration of him here in north beach SF mostly at his bookstore City Lights. As best I can figure out from Little Boy he was at least 95 when he wrote this cause he talks about the current Pope who became that in 2013.
this is his memoir and it is Honest and bold and raw
Lawrence is telling the story of his life from the viewpoint of a man in his 90s. And he is not an average man. This is a man who has shaped our history.
I talked yesterday to another local known Poet who is a good friend of Lawrence. He says he had been writing this for years and yes it is probably recent. He also said that Lawrence like many writers has been heavily influenced by James Joyce. After Jack and I talked he called Lawrence to tell him I read his book...
I will reread it in a few weeks...
Judy
chloeeduffell's review against another edition
3.0
I'm leaving this title with a 3 star rating, not because I disliked it, but simply because if it hadn't have been for the audiobook I listened to simultaneously, I would have no idea how the lines were meant to be read.
The poetic tempo of this short memoir (with aid of the previously mentioned audiobook), joined with the disjointed, uncontrollable thoughts of Lawrence Ferlinghetti fascinating. Being described as an explosion of politics, personal experience, mixed with social concepts and own opinions, I was unsure how likely I would be to enjoy this read after purchasing out of impulse. However, I found myself captivated by the thoughts of another, going on a journey of the author's mind, learning their own life events.
This is a short and easy read, but like mentioned before, I highly recommend listening to the audiobook alongside in order to really benefit from the poetic lines and the tempo changes in the words, due to there being no clear definition of chapters within.
The poetic tempo of this short memoir (with aid of the previously mentioned audiobook), joined with the disjointed, uncontrollable thoughts of Lawrence Ferlinghetti fascinating. Being described as an explosion of politics, personal experience, mixed with social concepts and own opinions, I was unsure how likely I would be to enjoy this read after purchasing out of impulse. However, I found myself captivated by the thoughts of another, going on a journey of the author's mind, learning their own life events.
This is a short and easy read, but like mentioned before, I highly recommend listening to the audiobook alongside in order to really benefit from the poetic lines and the tempo changes in the words, due to there being no clear definition of chapters within.
lisagray68's review against another edition
2.0
I don’t think there was a single bit of punctuation in this entire book!
bobbo49's review against another edition
5.0
I spent two days reflecting on this unique book before putting these thoughts in writing, because this is one you will either love or hate; I loved it. The first few pages are a brief autobiography, providing some context for what follows. Then Ferlinghetti follows his own unique path through a hundred years, a free-flowing, unpunctuated reflection on his life (and ours), pulling quotes from the whole history of writing (and humanity) to make philosophical or literary points (or not). Of course he's not very happy with the technological morass and ecological disaster that we've created in his lifetime, and he sometimes drifts into sociological rants that show his age, but overall, his poetic soul shines through, and I found myself smiling with pure joy as I turned the pages.