Reviews tagging 'Death'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

42 reviews

michael_richter's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Rape

growintogardens's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

2.5

I don't think I was in the right headspace for this book, too much sex and violence for me today. I liked a few lines here and there, and I can see the literary merit to some of them, but yeah it's not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Grief

mikeybjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, and Violence

zackarinareads's review

dark emotional reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Colonisation, Gun violence, Racism, Death, and War

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Homophobia

lynxpardinus's review

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Racism, and War

Moderate: Police brutality, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism and Racial slurs

khakipantsofsex's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, Death, and Homophobia

Minor: Drug use

whosjessanyway's review

emotional fast-paced

4.0

Even if this wasn't my favourite work by Vuong, I still devoured this collection. His words pack a punch like no other's. Emotional, raw and human.

& so what - if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel
this fully, this
entire, the way snow
touches bare skin - & is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

taysa_gzd's review

emotional

5.0

I mean i knew his writing was impactful but damn, it is strange to read someone who experience life so similarly to me yet so unique. I admire the openess of the author and the masterfull way to manipulate language. 

I'll admit i dont understand all the poems, some are a bit obscure, and i felt like on some pages the formating was unnecessary, but i greatly enjoyed reading this collection! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and War

evakonic's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War