Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

11 reviews

chriscarvell17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

sunn_bleach's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

My favorite thing about this book is it shows how messy grief is. Grief is not a neat package of sadness -> anger -> acceptance, or however many stages there might be. Grief is disgusting, indulgent, and (occasionally) violent. This book shows that - from the cursing to the despondency to the piss and shit. And it's interwoven with absolutely heartrending statements on what it is to lose someone and the mess they leave behind. As stated early on in the book, it's an apartment of "no-longer hers", and it doesn't have the care that comes with slow illness.

Now what? I'm just supposed to go on with my day? Crow would laugh at that but also agree - both in literal and in intent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Gore and Sexual content

sandwiiche's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.75

i don't think i've ever read anything quite like this. this was a very strange book indeed. the pacing was frantic and tumultuous, much like the upswings and downswings of grief. it was interesting, and i appreciated what this book was trying to convey, but i don't think i connected with this style of writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Grief, and Death of parent

imogenlj's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

I reached 12 pages in and said ‘this book is special’. What a reading experience! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

carlytenille's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, and Death

quinn_07's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cursing, Grief, and Death

Minor: Alcohol

_rowan_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, and Violence

foxwish's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

1.0

A few moments were genuinely touching, but the majority of the book is indecipherable due to the unique writing style and the overuse of crass language was almost offensive given the subject matter. It was very difficult to emotionally invest in the characters of the story and it felt like very little actually happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

bookleafcrow's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

I read this book in one sitting upon recommendation of a friend, and it more than lived up to my few expectations. This book is a quick, easy read on the surface, but the content makes it a bit tougher to digest, as well as the chaotic style. Whilst I wouldn't say this book is for everyone, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and believe it to have one of the best depictions of children coping with parental bereavement in anything I've read. Very crass and abstract at times, but very sincere to the concept of sudden bereavement and single parenthood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Alcoholism and Sexual content

Minor: Violence and Vomit

lonelamplighter's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

A beautiful, moving body of feathery prose crammed into a slim and poignant volume. A meditation on grief, an exploration of family, and a reflection on the nature of poetry, Grief is the Thing with Feathers is all at once hopeful and terrible, full of light and heavyhearted, and deeply, deeply quiet in all the right places.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Terminal illness, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Cancer, Alcoholism, and Alcohol