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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dnf :( typically adore moshfeghs writing, and im usually ok with her edge-lord sensibilities (to an extent) but even this was too much for me. liberal use of the r slur, heaps of anti-fatness, weird casual racism in ways that didnt really advance the stories. besides these uncomfortable moments, i was mildly bored with a lot of the stories here. some that i read stood out to me, but nothing spectacular enough to make me continue.
Otessa’s characters feel like a whole different breed of people, with a different sort of worldbuilding… they act like us, and they live supposedly in our planet, but they are more absurd. Their universal moral doesn’t work the same. But as different as they seem, they are at the same time exactly like us.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
tbh, interesting read but i don’t get the hype? maybe i need to read more of this author’s work to understand the praise she gets. i will note that i was not the biggest fan of the slurs and fatphobia in this book, but i think it was intentional?? idk???
dark
funny
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i love how listless moshfegh’s writing is. also u have to be a particular kind of insane to enjoy this & thankfully i am that
DN at 46%. I enjoyed Ottessa's book "Eileen", but this book was definitely not for me. The compilation of short stories was intriguing to me at first, before I realized that every chapter would be about a character who was ableist, racist, fatphobic, etc.. Her extremely frequent use of slurs held no significance to the stories. I know Ottessa usually writes in a way that makes people uncomfortable, but this was just way too far and felt extremely distasteful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced