Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

45 reviews

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

The ending leaves a lot to be desired, especially with the character of Bobbi, but it is still an incredible novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Medical content, Sexual content, Cursing, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Outing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Blood, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Bullying, and Sexism

There are explicit details about endometriosis and I found Bobbi to be an awful friend who exploits Frances, but does not take accountability for her own shitty actions.

coopergrace's review against another edition

emotional medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

karlabasson's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Self harm

Moderate: Chronic illness

hannahrogers's review against another edition

dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Cursing, Self harm, Infidelity, and Chronic illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

visnisme's review

inspiring relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Alcohol, Abandonment, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

darbylane's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Blood, Chronic illness, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Self harm

Moderate: Gaslighting, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abandonment, Police brutality, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

thesawyerbean's review

challenging emotional 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

3.25

I’m not sure I get on with Sally Rooney’s style very much. Her character writing is frankly weird - they all seem to moulded with a kind of uncanny realism, where enough very specific details are included to make the characters seem normal and quirky, but in actual fact are bizarre and kind of alien to normal human behaviour. 

Some of the dialogue felt pretty unnatural and weird, and every single character was deplorable and insufferable. 

The actual reading experience was average, not overly excited to continue reading but not hating every moment. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough social commentary for me to save it, unlike with Normal People. Speaking of, the amount of parallels and identical moments between Conversations with Friends and Normal People was kind of wild. It was quite a weird moment of déjà vu reading this so soon after finishing Normal People.

I wish this lived up to the hype but for me it didn’t! Maybe others would enjoy it more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Addiction, Mental illness, Self harm, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Cursing

barb_christensen's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Self harm, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Alcohol

Minor: Classism, Cursing, and Infertility

northernlitreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

the most interesting character i’ve read in a while. you know when you’re younger and want to be like the main character in a book? i found myself wanting to be like Frances which is strange because I don’t want to be cold or sleep with a married man but the way she thought about things - she’s very apathetic but also calculated? I found it really intriguing and wonder how other people would see me if I was less emotionally invested in everything. I know people complained about the emails in this - i liked it, it gave a sense of gravity to the discussions within them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Cursing, Self harm, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Blood, Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Infidelity

emilymbrown's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

why did it take me this long to read this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Hate crime, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Self harm, Biphobia, Blood, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Infertility