Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra by Ocean Vuong, Claudia Durastanti

170 reviews

mel_muses's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

A beautiful novel full of nuance, grief, love, and ultimately self. This book is so vivid that I actually had to look up whether this was a memoir or novel. I may not have grasped everything, but I'm glad I read it and have this story to think back on. I know it'll stick with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Grief, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Excrement, and Death of parent

pastlifetragedy's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Abortion, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Confinement, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

earthsigil's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Abortion

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

thesoftestcowboy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Grief, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Excrement, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

whimpix's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Excrement, and War

baddgerose's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

Vuong’s story is as deep and captivating as his writing style. This was a beautiful and heartbreaking story that keeps you down allowing you to come up for only brief and humorous pockets of air. This story was real and vivid. The writing was very poetic and the imagery provided, drops the reader right into the scene in the best and worst ways. I personally disliked the amount of the gruesome and gory details (animal abuse and body horror) which of course added emotional value but also distracted from the rest of the page. I found my mind stuck on horrible images long after turning the page. This book is beautiful and fearlessly describes the gorgeous, and the terrible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and War

lucyatoz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is Ocean Vuong's debut novel, however it reads more like poetry or prose albeit one that runs to 242 pages. A long letter from son, Little Dog, to his mother with a really moving account of the family's relocation from war torn Vietnam in the mid 1970's ending up in the  US state of Connecticut.  Little Dog is trying to figure out who he is as a half Vietnamese and half American person, having a difficult childhood, experiencing discrimination and prejudice for the way he looks and discovering and exploring his sexuality as a gay man and grieving the death of his grandmother.  

I appreciated the intertwining of the life stories of grandmother, mother and son and the wonderful writing style of the author although at times it does makes a story harder to follow. It is a beautiful first novel which tackles some difficult themes with grace, that is deeply moving whilst also being incredibly hard hitting.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Excrement, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Cursing

mariavdl's review against another edition

emotional sad

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Abortion, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Homophobia and Vomit

luliloveslulo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

5.0

The tone of this book is so poetic, it can guide you to flow through even the most difficult passages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Excrement, Abandonment, and War

hsitbeenworthit's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Excrement, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War