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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

48 reviews

hanaem's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

ocean's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying and Violence

li_reading's review against another edition

4.0

It was very good, and absolutely wretched

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Alcohol, Death, Infidelity, and Homophobia

Moderate: Classism, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Confinement, and Alcoholism

maxjohn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

i am now heartbroken. that’s all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

hot_water's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Violence

Minor: Excrement

dingmc's review against another edition

challenging 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

This book is like an injury you get when you’re in you’re late teens and then find out when you’re like 40 the injury is still causing problems. You reflect on the wound as what you did when you were younger, how stupid and cruel you were. But we are/were all like that and that is what connects us. Wounds that will never go away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia and Violence

Minor: Death and Sexism

annabella's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic relationship

fightingmarc's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Giovanni's Room has a similar feeling to the book I had just finished reading before, Yukio Mishima's Forbidden Colours, however the emotional payoff here has much more impact. Most queer people who read Giovanni's Room can see themselves in some way with the struggle of Giovanni, David and even Hella. Baldwin's writing is beautiful, and the last fifty pages of the story were weaved so intricately that the climax of the story, which you are warned about early on in the book, still manages a suckerpunch. This is a classic queer tragedy, and one that struck me with an intensity I haven't felt in a while.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence