Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen

264 pages • first pub 1966 (editions) user-added

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen' s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his r...

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Community Reviews

3.41
based on 648 reviews

Moods

challenging: 79%

dark: 58%

reflective: 55%

mysterious: 29%

emotional: 26%

tense: 26%

sad: 20%

funny: 17%

adventurous: 11%

inspiring: 5%

lighthearted: 2%

Pace

9% of readers chose fast
38% of readers chose medium
51% of readers chose slow
fast
medium
slow

Plot or character driven?

3% of readers chose Plot
10% of readers chose A mix
78% of readers chose Character
7% of readers chose N/A
Plot
A mix
Character
N/A

Strong character development?

3% of readers chose Yes
76% of readers chose Complicated
19% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Loveable characters?

29% of readers chose Complicated
70% of readers chose No
Complicated
No

Diverse cast of characters?

30% of readers chose Yes
39% of readers chose Complicated
26% of readers chose No
4% of readers chose N/A
Yes
Complicated
No
N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus?

88% of readers chose Yes
8% of readers chose Complicated
4% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

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