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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
2.0

Reading Leaves of Grass is like being stuck next to the drunk philosophy student in a bar that's super enlightened, and he is going to tell you about, in a lot of repetitive yet somehow incoherent words. This is a bloated, narcissistic work, that I found rather boring. There are a few golden poems in here, and then there are the 99 in between that are just exhausting.... and did I say repetitive yet? Seriously. It could be titled "Whitman's 1,001 poems about ships on the sea".

I'm not saying I don't recommend Whitman. I'm just saying I would recommend the "Best of Collection" rather than this self-published tome of blaaaaaaah.

The whole thing makes me feel like Jebediah Atkinson from SNL

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