Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

738 reviews

cnealerogers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

bythebooklin's review against another edition

emotional reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

The book deals with life and its complexities in a very beautiful way.

I think there’s something very profound that lies in the simplicity of the book; a man writing a letter to his mother. However, this letter is extremely nuanced. After each page we learn more about Little Dog through the author’s lyrical prose.

Oh, Ocean Vuong you owe me nothing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, and War

zerohearo's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I’ve read poems by Ocean Vuong and seen his photography at Toledo Museum of Art. This book is a longer form of his excellent writing. It’s so sensory! I continue to be awed by the mastery he displays in expressing so many ideas at once. His interviews are just as fascinating and beautiful as his work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Sexual content

Moderate: Excrement and Grief

Minor: War

xmoondustx's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolutely magnificent, breath- and heartbreaking but oh so very gorgeous. Everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

annaarbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, and War

elainetodd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Exquisitely written ,intimate,raw,violent yet relatable and emotional 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, and Racism

fixesofia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Dementia, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, and Abortion

omarhabib's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Excrement, Grief, and Abortion

anawolken's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Devastatingly beautiful, this book will break your heart while simultaneously healing it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, and War

martasshelf's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I enjoyed this book a lot. I feel like it took me a little to get into it at the start, but it slowly grew on me and broke my heart in a million pieces, just like I like it.
Vuong delivers exactly what he promises at the start: this book is a letter and it's perfectly shaped as one. From the memories not always in cronological order and with different levels of depth to the contemplation and reflections made along the way. 
A beautiful love letter to a mother ho can't read, it reflects on family, war trauma, e/imigration and identity, homosexuality and homofobia, drugs, language and politics. 
It is beautifuly writen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Homophobia

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Violence, and War