Reviews

De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor by Raymond Carver

uprightsleepy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

The book is a poignant reflection on how humans deal with and receive love. It’s a wonderful read that will leave you feeling a wide range of emotions for each passing character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death

delpoop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

this is my favorite book in the entire world. i cannot tell you how many times that i have read it. i truly feel everyone should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Infidelity, and Rape

belford4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

cherubssong's review against another edition

1.0

no i keep coming back to this book in the WRONG WAY i hate it and i hate raymond carver a big fuck you to carver

trin's review against another edition

3.0

Stylistically incredible if relentlessly depressing short stories. I read this because [a:Haruki Murakami|819789|J.D. Salinger|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1189260887p2/819789.jpg] counts Carver as an influence, and I can see that: they share a certain spare clarity of prose, and an occasional touch of beautiful oddness (though Murakami takes the latter much farther than Carver does). But while Murakami is often quite funny, Carver is just bleak—read too many of these stories in a row and you’ll want to throw yourself off the roof. Read in sequence like that, they also start to feel a bit samey. I definitely appreciated Carver’s writing, however, even if I didn’t necessarily enjoy it; I think in future I will just limit my intake. An occasional nibble—great. A heavy meal, though—uh-oh, now you’re gonna need to lie down.

mandu02's review against another edition

emotional inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

sktxaryaw's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

audgpodg's review against another edition

4.0

"booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it"

some of these short stories were just so bizarre at first glance and yet you see yourself in each of the characters he creates. with simple conversations between characters you read the themes of loss, memories, regret, conflict, paralysis, awareness and disconnection...the list goes on. these stories make you think and once you start thinking, they sure do make you think even more.

krabinovitz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

manoushp109's review against another edition

3.0

loved the cover and the title - much sadder than i was expecting 
:( i wanted rly lovely sweet short stories but it was very much like what love has become and all the fucked up versions of it. not memorable