Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

845 reviews

desireeahn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

i hate giving 5 stars out but holy shit.
people told me they disliked this book because the metaphors and language were overly convoluted, but i just think they didn't put enough effort into reading it. vuong is a poet and is so raw yet deliberate with his words- it breaks my heart that people are so critical of his work without truly trying to understand it. it takes some time to get through, but it was so worth it to me. maybe i'm biased as a gay first gen immigrant asian with a rocky relationship with my mother and relate too much to the content to be a reliable reference, but it's a must-read in my book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, and War

Minor: Bullying

raelong12's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Classism

montgomery1's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Xenophobia

samvgass's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and War

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.75

Beautiful, this book reads like poetry. Extremely introspective, it somehow gives a limited view into a life but every memory seems tinged with meaning. It's hard to sum this book up and I read somewhere that there is a movie planned and idk how that will work out bc this book exist mainly in it's prose

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

kitslibrary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

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

Minor: Mental illness

devinaaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Homophobia

emma_ekb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.5

this book was beautifully written and i was certainly struck by the prose but at times it seemed to lag and go over my silly little head 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia

mmiirrpp's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

• 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 is one of my favourite books of all time. Reading this book felt like I was being gripped by the shoulders and forced to look at my life up close through Ocean Vuong's poetic musings on his own. 

While this book did touch me deeply I would warn people, particularly survivors of abuse and POC, that this book can be painful to read at times and to check the content warnings left by other reviewers. I couldn't finish it the first time around, nor could the majority of my queer Asian friends that I recommended it to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Outing, Colonisation, and War

pearsupply's review against another edition

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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, and War