Reviews

Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda

mariagallego's review against another edition

4.0

Loved the last poem, just beofore the "Canción desesperada", so melancholic...

peter_j_reader's review against another edition

4.0

Favorites Poems: "The Queen", "Your Laughter", "Ode to the Dictionary", "Ode to a Village Movie Theater", "I ask for silence", "Do Not Ask Me", "The Word", "Solitude", The Art of Birds (collection), "Numbered", "Men IX", The Book of Questions (collection), and Selected Failings (collection).

notreallyricky's review against another edition

emotional inspiring slow-paced

4.0

sunnie_gi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

ic555y's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

 Neruda has a haunting ability to evoke emotion. 

dollykat's review against another edition

4.0

same as walt whitman, i'm gonna say that i read this even though i didn't finish... as a library book i had to return but loved the bits that i did read... i would like to buy a copy in the future to be able to savour in bits & pieces.

shadow_cat94's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

Prior to reading this book I only knew Pablo Neruda by his love poems. Now, I've gotten to read his odes to practically everything, political long form poetry (epics?), poetry about nature/Chile/revolution/love, etc.

Pablo Neruda's work was more diverse than I originally was exposed to and I'm glad I got to experience it through this book along with some of the poems still being shown Spanish before the translation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, and War

catnbooks's review against another edition

5.0

One of the best reasons to study in Chile?? It’s where Pablo found his words. Reading his words in Spanish or translated to English will blow you away all the and.

zhynxd's review against another edition

Today I learnt that romantic poetry was not for me. I think I'll probably like it more if I'm in a certain sort of situation that would make me resonate with the author, so maybe I'll pick this up again if I fall in love with a white woman sometime in the future. I don't know how to critique poetic writing because I think it's so subjective and varies according to a person's taste, but he does use beautiful words and nice descriptions? (Nice as in that's a critically good move but not something that I feel so strongly about).

P.S. I did only read around 5 poems before realising that I feel nothing about all of them and dnfed so maybe I made a rash decision and it's not so bad!! But for me if I don't vibe with poetry I don't want to push it, it's quite different from novels! Besides, it's 1040 pages long (rip). Sure, it's poetry!! But the page count is daunting nevertheless :(

nmussarrat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0