Reviews tagging 'Murder'

McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh

25 reviews

emsxrenee's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Homophobia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

bonnie_xx's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Murder

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Addiction, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Blood, Child death, Classism, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

lxshre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Murder

rin_dawg's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Murder

channamason's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I did not really like this book. I felt it hard to understand and keep up with— which feel purposeful as McGlue goes in and out of drunk states and nightmares and memories, haunted by ghosts that appear to him. McGlue is a classic unreliable narrator which made me have a hard time with the book. it’s so short yet I never felt swept away by the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Murder

kclark's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The first 40% of this book or so was extremely disorienting which makes sense given the plot of the novel. I appreciate a story that does something I don't expect, but I also see why people might bounce off of it, but I liked it. 

The book deals a lot with memory and it's ephemeral nature of memory, constructions of masculinity and how that intersects with friendships and sexuality, and how class distorts how our culture views guilt and innocence, among much else. 

The protagonist reminded me of other Moshveigh protagonists: lonely outsiders struggling to connect to society but this time in the mold of a drunken sailor. That sort of archetypical writing is understandable given this is Moshveigh's first published work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Excrement, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Murder

reginahafner_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

this one is for the hannibal gays

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Blood, Murder, and Homophobia

gracetrimper's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Excrement, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Alcohol, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Violence, Body horror, Sexual content, Murder, Gore, Child death, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Confinement, and Addiction

toffishay's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I really just struggled to follow this story. It is very stream of consciousness from an inebriated and unreliable narrator. It definitely could have gone over my head or just wasn't for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Violence and Alcoholism

Minor: Murder