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Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra by Ocean Vuong, Claudia Durastanti

133 reviews

heuteschongekurtet's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Rape, Racism, and Homophobia

miyothecat's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, War, Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Addiction, and Abortion

Moderate: Racism

saskiahill's review against another edition

I couldn't keep up with the intertwining paragraphs focusing on different stories, and then there was a scene involving some pretty gruesome treatment of an animal that just put me off altogether. I think if I was in a different mood I'd have persisted because I've heard good things, but I'm reading other books at the moment that held my interest more easily

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol

miller8d's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

4.0

I read this book a few months ago, so it isn’t super fresh in my mind, but my memory of it entails gorgeous poetic language, brilliantly detailed storytelling, and incredible nonfictional world-building.
Note: I vaguely pictured Edvin Ryding as Trevor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Homophobia, Violence, Car accident, Grief, Torture, War, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Animal death

oliviapincin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Xenophobia, Abortion, War, Homophobia, Mental illness, Death, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse and Classism

roouija's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Pregnancy, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, War, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

floki56's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? No

5.0

Modern classic.

I was expecting a very specific book when I picked this up but Ocean really delivered in a different way. Internal conflicts and interpersonal dynamics are a main focus, and he weaves so many areas of little dog’s life into a satisfying synthesis. He also loves metaphor, goes on for pages and pages explaining new revelations in little dog, sometimes using extremely explicit descriptions (

quite a lot about feces and it’s relation to the soul and shame, multiple sex scenes

) Extraordinarily written book. Take your time through it; Vuong’s prose unsurprisingly reads a bit like poetry (in the best way possible).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, War, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Hate crime, Death, Addiction, Blood, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Gore, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Racism, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Violence, Death of parent, and Cancer

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

This book is DENSE. I had to really turn my brain on to read it, which was not a bad thing, but it did make me take much longer to read it than I expected. Like in his poetry, Vuong's descriptions are vibrant and original. My favorite aspect of his writing is I can see exactly what he is describing, even though his manner of description is unique. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Racism, War, Abortion, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Blood, Animal death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Classism, Drug use, Excrement, and Sexual content

Moderate: Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Medical content, Cancer, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Minor: Gun violence, Cursing, Vomit, and Abandonment

Uses of slurs against LGBTQ+ folks

ephemeralzen's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Child abuse, Addiction, Xenophobia, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Mental illness, and Alcohol

naddl0r's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racism, Colonisation, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cancer, Hate crime, Alcohol, Self harm, War, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail