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Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

29 reviews

maurits's review

emotional funny fast-paced

3.5

Very funny, while at times quite serious. Sometimes the stories are relatable, but most of the time you're just in awe at the absurdity of this author. 

Something that annoyed me was the weight of this book. It is really, uncomfortably heavy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Medical content and Suicide

Minor: Sexual harassment

mossgoblins's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Medical content

meecespieces's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, and Death

sarkenobi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Medical content, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Animal death, and Car accident

emilyd1123's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Ableism, and Car accident

Moderate: Drug use and Cancer

Minor: Suicide, Animal death, Grief, and Medical content

hkburke2's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

3.0

I like each vingette generally, but the randomness didn't connect for me, and I felt like I was missing the full arc for some of the memories (which is perhaps realistic but didn't keep me wanting to read more). Lots of emotions in this one, and some real poignancy. Interested to read the first one now. (Also may have been discouraged by how physically impossible this book was to hold/read... I don't recommend the hardcover!)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Animal death, Cancer, and Suicide

aardwyrm's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

Allie Brosh is the voice of my generation. That's maybe not great for us, but there's no one better suited.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Excrement, and Medical content

kayschwe's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Drug use, Cancer, Car accident, and Medical trauma

nmcannon's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

After witnessing the scrapped raw humor of Hyperbole and a Half, I was curious where Brosh would go with this sequel memoir. Also: a library shelf was left unattended in my vicinity. 

Like its predecessor, Solutions and Other Problems is a collection of comics. The memoir has no plot per se: only a journey. It took me a bit to figure out where Brosh was going. Hyperbole’s intense exposure and authorial vulnerability carries over this sequel. At first, these stories seemed like lone fragments with little connection. Then came the chapter where Brosh discusses her younger sister’s sudden, violent death and I went oh.

I have a brother. He is not dead. But, my God, I cannot imagine any greater, utter shattering of the self than the loss of him. I cannot imagine ever again feeling the earth’s spin the same way. Each of Brosh’s chapters were spokes on the crushing wheel of grief, and the central hub was the gaping wound of her sister’s absence. Stack that on top of Brosh’s own health problems, the pandemic, the 2016 USA Election, and damn. It’s a wonder Brosh can get out of bed. 

Solutions and Other Problems is funny—but the humor is bleak. Nihilism threads itself through each piece. Brosh’s “nothing matters, life’s not fair, and everything’s absurd, so we might as well have fun” philosophy seems to get her through the day, so kudos to her. Thankfully, the book ends on a hopeful note and urges the reader to befriend oneself in all one’s weird glory.

Overall, I’d recommend this comic to adults who need someone to be with them in a dark place. Check the content warnings, and best of luck out there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Chronic illness, Excrement, Stalking, Grief, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Vomit, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

The level and description of triggering content in Solutions and Other Problems is either similar or one notch above the previous memoir, Hyperbole and a Half.

for_esme_with_love's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

For lovers of Hyperbole and a Half,  all things funny, and a long cathartic cry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident and Death

Brosh talks about their grief processing the death of their sister