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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

845 reviews

_bailey_reads_'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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is the most well written book I have ever read. It is powerful and beautiful and gut wrenching. I am in love with Ocean Vuong’s master ability to write and articulate what it means to be human and to suffer and feel pain and loss. This is masterful! My favorite book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and War

iirreeaadd's review against another edition

challenging 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

Just a stunning and beautiful book. Each line is poetry in motion. It's sad and moving but in a way that is just honest, not draining. It's certainly intense at points. It's prose is deliciously thick in a chocolate cake sort of way where you want to reread what you just read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Abortion, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

Minor: Racial slurs, Excrement, and Pregnancy

oliviapincin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Abortion, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Domestic abuse and Classism

c_serpent's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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

5.0

This book has explicit sex scenes, graphic depictions of animal cruelty, and a lot of excrement. I did not enjoy every minute of it. But it is a novel that is a poem that is a song, and it is expertly, expertly crafted.

Five stars for Ocean Vuong. For how we see one another in the light of them, those bright dead things, and call one another good.

Total score: 5/5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Excrement, Grief, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Violence

roouija's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

floki56's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? No

5.0

Modern classic.

I was expecting a very specific book when I picked this up but Ocean really delivered in a different way. Internal conflicts and interpersonal dynamics are a main focus, and he weaves so many areas of little dog’s life into a satisfying synthesis. He also loves metaphor, goes on for pages and pages explaining new revelations in little dog, sometimes using extremely explicit descriptions (

quite a lot about feces and it’s relation to the soul and shame, multiple sex scenes

) Extraordinarily written book. Take your time through it; Vuong’s prose unsurprisingly reads a bit like poetry (in the best way possible).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Excrement, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

yilliun's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Vuong is such a lyrical and talented writer. He knows how to hit you right in the feels. A beautiful story I think everyone needs to read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and War

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

mosswood's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

This book is a marvel in emotional intelligence , the feelings that envelope me are in full display, given rise to complex intricate thought. It is truly a gift a book of connection, and feelings so full the only way to react to them is be in amongst the words. The emotional intelligence and capability to convey such in writing of the author is unmatched in anything else I’ve read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Abortion, and War

brekker_by_brekker's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

damn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and War

may_lol's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War