Beautiful Losers, (Paperback)

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I love Leonard Cohen's music, I adore his poetry BUT, this novel did nothing for me. It is too concerned with being clever and not sufficiently with creating character and story. I need to play some of Cohen's music and read some of his poetry now to set the man back on his rightful plinth.

from charlie68

Well what to say about this book. One of the dirtiest books I've read in a long time. Some pearls of writing to be found, but to have wade through all the crap and other human fluids. M. Cohen should perhaps stick to song writing.

from blanderson

A novel of beautiful passages and long, quasi-interesting metaphysical mumbo-jumbo befitting an experimental novel from the late-60s. A lot of Cohen's most famous scenes of love, betrayal, cuckoldry, desperation and sexuality appear here in various degrees of perfection. All the passages about em...

from yogipoet

always been a cohenite, read this one long ago. it's a jumble of fragments, or was that the other novel? cohenites will read, others will pass him by perhaps.

from kirstiecat

Leonard Cohen walks a precarious tightrope balancing the sacred and the profane and, because he is *the* Leonard Cohen, doesn't fall from his great height. At the same time, it is very disjointed and a little unclear. It's an exploration of sexuality but way more than that. Though Beautiful Loser...