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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

44 reviews

sandramarinis's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Dysphoria

kafkatattoo's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism

ra22ouille's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

The structure was uninspiring and didnt motivate me to continue reading, so I got through this book in a lot of little tiny reading moments. The topic was interesting and fleshed out, and I appreciate that the author explored mental health from such a personal, vulnerable perspective. However I didn't care very much about the content. Maybe I've had enough therapy that it was a chore to read someone else's therapy sessions. I just didn't connect with the transcripts and I thought various chunks of the text were redundant or superfluous.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

icarusandthesun's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

since this is a memoir/self-help book, how much i enjoyed it was directly proportional to how much i related to the author and her struggles.
so note that my rating conveys just that - how much i identified with the author - and not necessarily how good the book was from a literary or objective point of view.

for me, this was a very insightful read.
while i couldn't relate to every single thing the author struggles with (obviously), i did find quite a few of my own problems and struggles represented. 
the therapist's answers and reflections weren't life-changing in and of themselves, but the combination between them and the author's ("the patient's") conclusions made for very thought-provoking chapters and situations. 

inspiring if you dare to apply all of this to your life and actually try to 'self-help'.

i do need to mention though that some aspects of the book were a little repetitive, which makes sense, obviously, because one can only have so many struggles to mention and those don't go away once you check them off of your imaginery checklist, but just wanna mention it for the sake of your reading experience.
however, since the book is only around 200 pages long, i think you should be more than fine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

watermelonquokka's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

1.25

For what it's worth, it's a rare thing for a Korean person to talk, let alone publish a book about mental health problems.
But i still can't help but be disappointed. It may be my experience with excellent therapists that just make it difficult to read what the psychiatrist says. 
But even then I feel like this is not the way to go about starting the conversation about mental health and depression. It just leaves way too many things uncommented which I find problematic. Sure, it is autobiographical, the author is still in the process of figuring their mental health out. But especially then I find it irresponsible to simply put it out into the world like that. Just as a transcript of therapy sessions. 

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I can't help but feel the need to share. This really wasn't it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Eating disorder

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

issyd23's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

I thought this would be funny but it was just sad 2⚰️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, Abandonment, Classism, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

dlsmk's review

reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

3.5 stars

Better than I thought. I read it in about one day!

I really related to Se-hee at times and it is always nice to feel seen. What I really liked was this just bringing back memories of sessions with my own therapist.

I didn't like how the front had the mix of essays and transcripts but then it abruptly stopped and only had essays at the end. I wish it was more evenly spaced out. I am not sure if all the essays at the end were added in the translated version or later releases. I would like to know.

If you like memoirs and have been a 20-something year old woman with low self esteem you may like this. To be honest I find Se-hee including parts about herself that I didn't really like made the book feel more honest. Not like we have to fully like someone to like their book. Kinda the whole point and weird if you feel like you have to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Classism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder and Racism

myeonmae's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Bullying, and Racism