Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

28 reviews

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

alondere's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The format can be confusing at first as Ocean tends to spice it up, but you'll get used to it quickly. Has such a creative use for symbolism and analogy that just guts you in at times. 

The novel title of his second book can be found here 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Racism, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Terminal illness, and Homophobia

Minor: Racial slurs and Violence

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

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

Ocean Vuong has a beautiful way of twisting horrible things into beautiful words and making the horrible things seem not so horrible and making the beautiful things not so beautiful. I think I’ll have to sit with this one for a while and revisit to really delve into it, but a soulful read for the time being. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Homophobia

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

I think the poetry was well-written but some of the topic matter wasn’t really for me. I went in thinking this was more of a series of poems tying into family struggles and grief but I found a lot of it lewd and about other things. That’s fine but just not what I expected.

I wish I read this after On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous instead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse

josiee123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Explores many themes from his novel but in different formats and layouts and styles, such as stream of consciousness or writing in a letter format. Really masterful and engaging, will reread and lend to a friend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Homophobia, War, and Sexual violence

frankieclc's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, and Gun violence