Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - Rejection

You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

100 reviews

skahlenb's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

a_fox's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

magg_nifique's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

carojust's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I can't even properly talk about this book. You just need to read it.

It's funny in a way where you hesitate to recommend it to someone. It exposes too much and philosophically gamifies an entire generation's self-loathing in excruciating detail and accuracy.

Content Warnings

rachyrachael's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is a great example of the shortcomings of star ratings. It was very good, and I was often miserable while reading it. At times I only continued because every time I tried to stop it haunted me--same sort of feeling that compelled me to finish my first King in high school.

If star ratings are meant to influence whether or not someone who cares about my opinion should read this book, then to my mom I give it 1 star, to Sanjana I give it 5.

Content Warnings

hallebit's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“Tulathimutte’s characters are shoe gazers. They’re snails that have been emotionally salted.” -NYT, Dwight Garner

“a lot” is a phrase I’ve used to describe recent reading. This book is the most “a lot” so far and that’s saying… a lot. So let me say more.

The visceral quality of these stories makes them more uncomfortable than the provocative list in my recent review of The World According to Garp. I don’t want even write it out. Writing it would require pulling back the curtain on why exactly it was “a year of damp feet.” It would demand spending a paragraph or more to convey how un-dope DöpeSauce truly is. Nope. Nuh uh.

Rejection is arm’s length feelings at your fingertips. It is one of those looonnnnggg aita posts that you read despite knowing from the first sentence that the answer is yes. It is a “solo debate club” consisting of one lone devil’s advocate.

Ultimately, it is terribly dark, smart, and funny; definitely up there as one of my best reads this year so far. That said, I wish that recommending the book, talking, or thinking about it felt less like condemning myself to it. I get the sense that adopting its perspective wholesale is a conflict of interest. As if doing so could co-sign my acceptance of living in the world Tulathimutte describes. And yet, it’s his brand of pessimism that has me asking “do I even have the choice?”

Content Warnings

bookarino's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

katjuschae's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

library_ephemera's review against another edition

3.0

Content Warnings

dizzzybrook's review against another edition

2.0

dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

One of those short story collections where every story was so obnoxious and watered down by its own self awareness that it becomes boring and repetitive. The first two stories were honestly quite good but the rest felt like reading a bad reddit thread. The fact that these stories, though fictional, likely do actually exist in reality to some capacity is deeply depressing. The audiobook was entertaining but will likely never cross my mind again.

Content Warnings

More...