Quiet, honest & sincere. - Rated 
This is a work that compels people to review it.. every graceful line, with every pause between lines, all seems as natural as breathing.
Every time this book is picked up & interacted with, something strange happens to people who read & are read by it...some-one who is adrift in their head wakes up hazily, and reminds the reading person that they are capable of so utterably similar thoughts, so incredibly empathic perceptions, that the persuasion of Pessoa is as easily absorbed as oxygen into blood.
Then one realises one has just said all this out loud, and a menagerie of people will be irritated and yet another prospective escapee will be intrigued. If you have to read something about humanity before you live, nothing comes closer than this to an honest attempt at a self.
Nothing else I've ever read comes close - Rated
This is not a great work of fiction, so look elsewhere if that's what you want. What this book is is quite simply the most honest description of the human condition I've ever read - ever page has something so profoundly true on it that it literally takes one's breath away.
Incredible.
A necessary poison - Rated
For me, to write is self-deprecating, and yet I can't quit doing it. Writing is like a drug I abhor and keep taking, the addiction I despise and depend on. There are necessary poisons, and some are extremely subtle, composed of ingredients from the soul, herbs collected from among the ruins of dreams, black poppies found next to the graves of our intentions, the long leaves of obscene trees whose branches sway on the echoing banks of the soul's infernal rivers. To write is to lose myself, yes, but everyone loses himself, because everything gets lost. I, however, lose myself without any joy - not like the river flowing into the sea for which it was secretly born, but like the puddle left on the beach by the hide tide, its stranded water never returning to the ocean but merely sinking in the sand..
Random selection page 137 / found in a box in the rain in feb 2007 haven't been able to put it down since. Every page is absorbing. Long live Pessoa.
palimpsest of the soul - Rated
When I found this book, totally by chance, this was the book I'd been waiting for. This is the book I'd take if the house was burning down. This would be the book I'd want on a desert island. This is clear eyed, unbearably honest, pragmatic existensialism. It's Dylan's "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all" writ large. I've known it for some years now, and I cannot imagine life without it. The most human of documents for contemporary contemplation.
The Book of Disquiet - Rated
It's unbelievable to discover that Fernando Pessoa isn't better known after you read this masterpiece of world literature.
The book reminds us of how gratuitous our pursues in life are,when we read a gem like this with the power to both unbearably shock and excite through meaningful messages that some people understand to be too pessimistic when in fact they're just too realistic,it makes you reflect on life in a big way and that's got to be a good thing unless you are a vegetable.
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