Review of Confessions of a Manaholic
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Review of Confessions of a Manaholic
[Following is a volunteer review of "Confessions of a Manaholic" by P. Pierre.]
People say that drugs are the most addictive things on earth and nothing can measure up to it. Well, those who have been in love would disagree. They will ask you if you have ever loved someone to the extent that you find yourself, will, and needs, orbiting around them, their will, and needs. They will ask you if you have ever loved so hard that you begin to fear that if you do not slow things down in your heart and head, you may be lost forever. This is the story of the woman who fell in love and became overly infatuated with the subject of her love in Confessions of a Manaholic. This woman tells the story of how she became addicted to this high that loving the man she calls her ‘bird’ caused and how she got her heart broken in the long run. P. Pierre records the confessions of this woman in a collection of poems in the Confessions of a Manaholic.
Even though the poems in this book fit the cliché bill of having rhymes at a steady interval, they can be said to have been written in a semi-prose style. This means that the words were straightforward and easy to understand. There were not many flowery words or overuse of a plethora of figures of speech that you would normally see in your classic poems out there. This is one reason that I liked this collection very much.
However, what I liked best is the simple drawings placed at the end of some poems in the book. Some of these were drawings of birds, branches, and birds on branches. They communicated the picture of love that infatuation that P. Pierre sought to pass across in the telling of the manaholic’s gleam and almost disturbing love story.
I enjoyed reading the confessions of the woman that could have easily gone crazy with love and I am glad that the poems showed us how dangerous loving without reins can be to us. However, I did not find this book to be totally perfect. There are two things that I was not okay with. The first, which is the very thing that I liked least in this collection is how the pages were laid out. They were laid out in twos on a single screen page. That is to say that pages 1 and 2 laid side by side and so on. I had a hard time reading this book because of that. The constant scrolling from left to right and then down to get to the next screen page was tiring. It would have been better if the layout was edited like most other books (if it was a one-page or print layout). I do not know if this layout is the same on all forms that the book can be downloaded, but that is the case in the PDF file I got.
The second and less serious dislike is the single word on the last page of the book. To be honest, this is more of a confusing thing for me than a real dislike. Now, in the center of the last page, the author simply wrote the word “Proof” in large font. I do not know what that is supposed to mean or what message was being passed across. I wonder if that meant nothing and was just an oversight on the part of the author. Maybe the editors were meant to remove that but forgot to. That is just me speculating, but I have been unable to get that out of my mind.
Three out of four stars is the rating that I have decided to give P. Pierre’s Confession of a Manaholic. Even though I enjoyed looking into the minds of an infatuated woman and was told what made her love the way she did (which was really unhealthy) and I believe that this book was exceptionally edited, I will not give it four stars. The reason for this is because I did not like the page layout one bit. To be honest, I almost stopped reading the poem even before I was halfway through with it because the constant scrolling in every direction was gnawing at my nerves. I am glad I did not though.
Since Confessions of a Manaholic is a poem about love gained, loved lost, and the destructive effects of it, I would recommend it to poetry enthusiasts interested in such a topic. The way the manaholic describes her love for her ‘bird’ (man) and the things she was willing to do for love would have you smiling and screaming (inwardly) at the same time.
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Confessions of a Manaholic
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People say that drugs are the most addictive things on earth and nothing can measure up to it. Well, those who have been in love would disagree. They will ask you if you have ever loved someone to the extent that you find yourself, will, and needs, orbiting around them, their will, and needs. They will ask you if you have ever loved so hard that you begin to fear that if you do not slow things down in your heart and head, you may be lost forever. This is the story of the woman who fell in love and became overly infatuated with the subject of her love in Confessions of a Manaholic. This woman tells the story of how she became addicted to this high that loving the man she calls her ‘bird’ caused and how she got her heart broken in the long run. P. Pierre records the confessions of this woman in a collection of poems in the Confessions of a Manaholic.
Even though the poems in this book fit the cliché bill of having rhymes at a steady interval, they can be said to have been written in a semi-prose style. This means that the words were straightforward and easy to understand. There were not many flowery words or overuse of a plethora of figures of speech that you would normally see in your classic poems out there. This is one reason that I liked this collection very much.
However, what I liked best is the simple drawings placed at the end of some poems in the book. Some of these were drawings of birds, branches, and birds on branches. They communicated the picture of love that infatuation that P. Pierre sought to pass across in the telling of the manaholic’s gleam and almost disturbing love story.
I enjoyed reading the confessions of the woman that could have easily gone crazy with love and I am glad that the poems showed us how dangerous loving without reins can be to us. However, I did not find this book to be totally perfect. There are two things that I was not okay with. The first, which is the very thing that I liked least in this collection is how the pages were laid out. They were laid out in twos on a single screen page. That is to say that pages 1 and 2 laid side by side and so on. I had a hard time reading this book because of that. The constant scrolling from left to right and then down to get to the next screen page was tiring. It would have been better if the layout was edited like most other books (if it was a one-page or print layout). I do not know if this layout is the same on all forms that the book can be downloaded, but that is the case in the PDF file I got.
The second and less serious dislike is the single word on the last page of the book. To be honest, this is more of a confusing thing for me than a real dislike. Now, in the center of the last page, the author simply wrote the word “Proof” in large font. I do not know what that is supposed to mean or what message was being passed across. I wonder if that meant nothing and was just an oversight on the part of the author. Maybe the editors were meant to remove that but forgot to. That is just me speculating, but I have been unable to get that out of my mind.
Three out of four stars is the rating that I have decided to give P. Pierre’s Confession of a Manaholic. Even though I enjoyed looking into the minds of an infatuated woman and was told what made her love the way she did (which was really unhealthy) and I believe that this book was exceptionally edited, I will not give it four stars. The reason for this is because I did not like the page layout one bit. To be honest, I almost stopped reading the poem even before I was halfway through with it because the constant scrolling in every direction was gnawing at my nerves. I am glad I did not though.
Since Confessions of a Manaholic is a poem about love gained, loved lost, and the destructive effects of it, I would recommend it to poetry enthusiasts interested in such a topic. The way the manaholic describes her love for her ‘bird’ (man) and the things she was willing to do for love would have you smiling and screaming (inwardly) at the same time.
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Confessions of a Manaholic
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
Latest Review: Confessions of a Manaholic by P. Pierre
