Review by codalion - The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

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The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light

2.0

Interesting topic, but should've been a long magazine feature on Cohen, Cale, Buckley and maybe Wainwright - did not need to be a book dragging over various X Factor contestants' versions. Also Light is kind of a shallow and mediocre art journalist when it comes to textual reading - Cohen lyrics deserve someone with a better appreciation. The book only really came alive talking about Buckley.