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Let's just get this out of the way right now. The only two acceptable covers of this song are by kd lang and Rufus Wainwright (although it's really a cover of the Cale version), John Cale if you must.
The book was OK. Much of the time it feels too much like a litany of people who have covered the song, although I suppose it is unavoidable for this sort of discussion. It felt really padded-out, the way one uses excessive quotations to up the length of a thing that doesn't have enough substance (not that I would know anything about that). I would have liked to have seen more in-depth discussion about the way the song has gotten away from its origins and has become different things to different people.
Unless you literally know nothing about Leonard Cohen (in which case I would point you to the Simmons biography anyways), save your time and read the conference paper Michael Barthel did in 2007 about the ubiquity to the point of inappropriateness of the song.
The book was OK. Much of the time it feels too much like a litany of people who have covered the song, although I suppose it is unavoidable for this sort of discussion. It felt really padded-out, the way one uses excessive quotations to up the length of a thing that doesn't have enough substance (not that I would know anything about that). I would have liked to have seen more in-depth discussion about the way the song has gotten away from its origins and has become different things to different people.
Unless you literally know nothing about Leonard Cohen (in which case I would point you to the Simmons biography anyways), save your time and read the conference paper Michael Barthel did in 2007 about the ubiquity to the point of inappropriateness of the song.