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unconditionallyjay 's review for:
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
by Misha Collins
uhh… i mean, it was definitely… a poetry book.
i feel bad criticizing it too much because it was clearly very personal work but i’m going to be honest, the poems ranged from awkward to unintentionally comical to depressingly monotone, and throughout listening to the audiobook i kept getting a weird sense of second hand embarrassment or at the very least feeling like i was intruding on someone’s therapy session or reading their diary. i kept thinking of that “this one should’ve stayed in the drafts” meme. not to mention, the quality of the writing was just… not good. i’m sorry but i found the poems to be very bland and lackluster, and some of them read like posts off the r/iam14andthisisdeep subreddit. i can’t even think of any particular poem that stuck out to me. after a while of listening, they just sort of started to blend together and made the book feel ten times longer than it actually was. by the time it was over, i kind of just exhaled in relief, much like an employee finally getting out of a boring and awkward conference meeting. i feel bad for being so harsh, because from what i know of misha collins he seems like a sweet person who’s done a lot of activism work which is definitely very admirable. sadly, i don’t think poetry is his forte (at least not at this point in time) but i enjoyed listening to him narrate his own audiobook because it made the poems feel more personal and heartfelt, and i think it enhanced the experience more than having read the physical book myself would have. i hope writing this book brought him some kind of closure and healing at least.
i feel bad criticizing it too much because it was clearly very personal work but i’m going to be honest, the poems ranged from awkward to unintentionally comical to depressingly monotone, and throughout listening to the audiobook i kept getting a weird sense of second hand embarrassment or at the very least feeling like i was intruding on someone’s therapy session or reading their diary. i kept thinking of that “this one should’ve stayed in the drafts” meme. not to mention, the quality of the writing was just… not good. i’m sorry but i found the poems to be very bland and lackluster, and some of them read like posts off the r/iam14andthisisdeep subreddit. i can’t even think of any particular poem that stuck out to me. after a while of listening, they just sort of started to blend together and made the book feel ten times longer than it actually was. by the time it was over, i kind of just exhaled in relief, much like an employee finally getting out of a boring and awkward conference meeting. i feel bad for being so harsh, because from what i know of misha collins he seems like a sweet person who’s done a lot of activism work which is definitely very admirable. sadly, i don’t think poetry is his forte (at least not at this point in time) but i enjoyed listening to him narrate his own audiobook because it made the poems feel more personal and heartfelt, and i think it enhanced the experience more than having read the physical book myself would have. i hope writing this book brought him some kind of closure and healing at least.