Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park

23 reviews

noahsingh's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Fatphobia, and Cancer

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

raitherabbit's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I read this hoping it would be a romance— it was and wasn’t. Dang Young Park and Anton Hur have such a way with words that I felt every single smidge of emotion in those pages. It felt almost invasive, reading about someone’s life like that. 

I didn’t expect for there to be so much packed in such a small package. 200 pages went by too quickly. I felt that a complete stranger could understand what I was feeling. 

The poetry of the writing cannot go unnoticed. Reading the last few chapters and watching them unfold was heart wrenching. That last paragraph will be something stuck in the back of my mind for the foreseeable future.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

sydneybedell's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fatphobia and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

fatfrog's review against another edition

sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, and Abortion

Moderate: Stalking and Sexual content

cheye13's review against another edition

funny hopeful medium-paced

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

2.0

I can appreciate that this book needed to be written, and I appreciate translations for broadening readers' scope of the world, but it remains that this is a book primarily written for Korean readers. As a translation to English, I wish it was a little more than a stream-of-consciousness, (mostly) low-stakes, fictional memoir. My favorite thing about this book is that Koreans can read a story like this in their native language. Americans (me), on the other hand, have plenty of these.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Abortion

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, and Sexual content

minor: experience being HIV positive

lidia7's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Medical content, Abortion, Outing, and Infidelity

Minor: Physical abuse, Blood, Vomit, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Classism

nenaveenstra'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

3.75

Ik vond het interessant om te zien hoe herkenbaar sommige aspecten van dit boek waren, terwijl andere dingen een totale cultuurshock vormden. Ook in de Nederlandse vertaling is het Zuid-Koreaanse gevoel gebleven, en ik had echt even het gevoel alsof ik ergens anders was. Ik vond het mooi en verdrietig om te zien hoe erg de hoofdpersoon worstelde met zijn eigen identiteit, en de liefde die hij niet van zijn ouders had gekregen leek te zoeken bij willekeurige mannen. Ik moest af en toe echt even het boek wegleggen om te reflecteren op mijn eigen leven.

Een minpuntje vind ik dat het boek is opgedeeld in vier verschillende delen, en dat die delen lijken geschreven voor een publiek dat de andere delen niet gelezen heeft. Daarmee bedoel ik dat er soms dingen overbodig worden uitgelegd, omdat je dat letterlijk tien bladzijden geleden nog gelezen hebt. Misschien zijn ze eerder in een ander format gepubliceerd?

Ook vind ik het taalgebruik soms wat simpel. Dat ligt niet aan de auteur, maar aan de vertaler - die heeft ongetwijfeld zijn best gedaan om zo trouw mogelijk te blijven aan het origineel, maar daardoor voelde het soms wat clunky. Ook stonden er heel veel referenties in naar dingen uit de Koreaanse popcultuur die niet werden toegelicht voor de lezer, dat vond ik jammer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content

himangi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Homophobia, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Blood, Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit and Stalking

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Cancer, Gaslighting, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abortion, Cursing, Child abuse, Vomit, Death, Classism, Outing, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Grief, Infidelity, and Blood

liv_txt's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, and Sexual content