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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, this book is mental, and proves Laughing Leonard not just to be the Grocer of Despair as his detractors may have unkindly phrased it, but capable of impressive rudeness and high humour. And then you get exquisite prose poems like the following, which the great Buffy Sainte-Marie extracted and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6762511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh Leonard, how I love you, but do not so-much love this book.  Again, I am letting myself be lazy and file it away to finish in another era, but from what I have read so far, I need to be  in more of a sitting-on-a-dirty-rooftop-in-the-rain-drinking-whiskey-and-smoking-cigarettes -sort-of-mood befo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8772634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's finally over. I'll admit something about this story of a unnamed narrator, his suicided wife, their mutual friend and lover F. and the long dead but revered in the nameless narrator's memory Kateri Tekakwitha (an actual historical figure) kept me hooked and, at times, moved. But I'll also admit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79789471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decadently filthy, obtuse and unrelenting, Beautiful Losers is characteristically unlike the Leonard Cohen of the early 1960s. Rather than the rhythmic, dulcet poetry and lyrics, the novel is of dense prose that more resembles the beat poetry of Kesey or Ginsberg, encapsulating the loose spirit and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55016434">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I promised a review of this book. Usually when I read this kind of book I become so intune with the language and cadence of the writing I tend to just ape the writer and leave content for book reporters with more focus than myself. This book makes me want to rant. So off I go…passionately for abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72127960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!<br/><br/>Cunts are a forest of pricks where saints and seekers exchange dirty luminescent fluids in microscopes of madhouses stitched together, and shattered, and stitched together again by tidal sways in the eternal machinery of the ever-loving Mothers.<br/><br/>Inspire...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72897158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm shy, so I won't go into the details of this book. Lots of beautiful/funny/grotesque imagery coming from an exhausting amount of pornographic material. The funny moments really are funny, and sometimes sarcastic. I appreciate this book not for the sum of its parts, but for its parts? yeah. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4664397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>I &quot;borrowed&quot; an old edition from a bookshelf in the hall of my college's English department. Graduated. Still hadn't finished reading it. </p><br/><br/><p>This spring, I finished it on the subway and immediately turned back to the beginning. The second time around, I wrote down all the page num...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57682176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in 8th grade for some reason. This book is one part Sartre's &quot;No Exit&quot; and three parts gin purchased at a gas station. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen often makes me cry.  I sat on the floor of a bookstore with my hair streaming rain and collecting the smells of coffee and ink and read his book of poetry, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158010.Stranger_Music_Selected_Poems_and_Songs" title="Stranger Music  Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen">Stranger Music</a>, almost cover to cover, mostly in tears.  I heard his words in my head long before I remembered he sometimes sang t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39369365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jumbled ecstasy. Saint shagging cited as solution to sacred V profane.<br/><br/>*dusts off silver platter* ;)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 Losers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31286704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I read this in college, at about the same time as I first gave &quot;Songs Of Love and Hate&quot; a spin.<br/><br/>!?!<br/><br/>It's sort of strange to think of it now, having these two bizarre (not a word I take lightly) and manaical texts as my introduction to Sad-Eyed-Lenny of the Lowla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26185027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what the hell to say about this book. So I'll talk about the feelings. Sometimes, I had to shut it because it was too nauseating. Sometimes I thought it was delicious, and disgusting. Sometimes my thoughts ran in parallel with it. At one point I declared that it was the best book in all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20537239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You'd think this would be fucking devestating, but it's not.  I love Leonard Cohen.  Who doesn't?  Maybe if he read this to me it would be different, because that deep voice really adds so much to his songs, but I just couldn't get into this save a few passages that were excellent.  <br/><br/>Are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7003928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that Cohen should stick to music where he is indeed the master. Although this book was considered a breakout in Canadian fiction, it did not hold me as a reader, the writing was too jarring and jerky (considered by others as artsy, perhaps) - I strained through the entire book, just because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41947354">more...</a>]]></body>
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