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morregano's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Self harm, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Grief
Minor: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, Chronic illness, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Cursing
nooodledooodle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.25
Graphic: Medical content, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Addiction, Eating disorder, and Cancer
Moderate: Classism, Alcoholism, Drug use, Animal death, and Drug abuse
Minor: Abortion
acstar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Rape, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Medical content, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Suicide attempt
itsmaren's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Abortion, Cancer, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders
amyford's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Grief, Cancer, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Addiction, Medical content, Suicide, Bullying, Drug abuse, Vomit, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Excrement
allysm0llbean's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Death of parent, Cancer, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts
houseofjules's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Cancer, Sexual content, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Abortion, Death, Confinement, and Alcohol
amelianotthepilot's review against another edition
1.5
I guess you could say its a feminist book representing women in the worst way, women can be horrible too, women contain multitudes. I'm also pretty positive it doesn't pass the reverse Bechdel test (men are rarely mentioned and only in reference to sex). Which I guess is interesting... idk overall I thought it was terribly boring and depressing.
The main character is in her 20s, both her parents have passed away which she says she has come to terms with but clearly still deeply affects her. She has decided she wants to sleep her life away. She goes to a bad therapist complaining of sleep problems so she can get prescribed increasingly wild drugs. She then takes a cocktail of drugs in efforts to fully sleep through the rest of life to varying success. Her therapist is an extremely hippie unhinged bad therapist, her best friend is extremely vain and fake, her deceased mother was an alcoholic and uncaring. Overall every single character was unbearable and annoying and I don't feel like I particularly learned or gained anything from reading it.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Confinement, Eating disorder, Abortion, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Vomit, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, Dysphoria, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship
ercole's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I personaggi sono caratterizzati da una mancanza di empatia quasi assurda, e le relazioni non sono molto naturali. L’amicizia tra la protagonista e Reva è estremamente tossica, e nonostante ciò le due saranno amiche fino alla morte di quest’ultima che, conoscendo il periodo e il luogo in cui è ambientato il romanzo, diventa estremamente prevedibile quando Reva annuncia di essere stata trasferita a lavorare alle Torri Gemelle.
Il libro scorre bene. Lo stile è semplice e piacevole da leggere, e i riferimenti pop rendono il tutto ancora più interessante.
Tre stelle perché, per certi versi, i personaggi sono poco realistici per quanto sono assurdi.
Graphic: Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Addiction, Abortion, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Medical content
beatrizdizon_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
There’s so much to say about MYORAR. The social commentary it touches but it’s not in your face, so it doesn’t sound pretentious. The way our narrator adhered to the very things she criticized. How telling her toxic relationships are, especially with men, about her experiences.
So, I took my time considering if I liked that we readers can predict what will happen to Reva, and I settled on the notion that I do. Maybe it became predictable the moment she had that change, but what matters more is how the narrator reacted in the last chapter which arguably is not predictable. Reva is a star though. Something about her demise juxtaposed with MC’s plan b is poetic in a way.
Moshfegh makes me want to go all “you just don’t get it” type of insufferable. Now my friends and I can be miserable and insufferable together. As if we’re not already doing that.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, and Alcohol
Moderate: Vomit, Grief, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content
Minor: Blood, Classism, Confinement, Death, Pregnancy, Racism, Body shaming, Cancer, Abortion, and Self harm