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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

845 reviews

ceci_cc's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Beautifully written but I often have a hard time with literary books/poetry as I find them difficult to understand at times

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

unboxedjack's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, and War

honorablemmmention's review against another edition

dark 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

4.75

Vuong's book is much more of a meditative collection of poems than a story with a middle beginning or end, openly breaking the confines or genre. It goes nowhere, simply because it does not want to. Go into it expecting to read a letter, not an adventure, as it doesn't end with a conclusion, as much as a full stop.

No one wanted to like this book more than I, and I can't say I didn't, but be warned that there is so much animal cruelty, and in pretty graphic detail. Like it's a full-on motif.
I have never had so much fun underlining and annotating, but that's mainly where the fun begins and ends. The amount of breathtaking absolutely gorgeous lines in this is endless, and I weep at both the beauty, and for those who do not care for literature. Because they are missing out.

(It's been a few months now, and what I've noticed is how much I miss reading it. I miss the characters, the style, the story. The sum is definetly better than its parts.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

Minor: Car accident

fifi_'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Grief, and Abortion

jessedithgc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Car accident, Outing, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

whatvictoriaread's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Excrement, Grief, and War

sealbrecht's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

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

aegireads's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

sad autobio vignettes are my jam and i was ready to devour this in one sitting, but i had to put it down for a minute when the main character skyped with his grandfather (if you read it, you know).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Abortion, Death of parent, and War

graybat's review against another edition

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

4.5

i love the writing style 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

kennedybullen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and War