Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Overstory by Richard Powers

4 reviews

emmonsannae's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

2.0

This is one of those books that is objectively excellent but just didn’t work for me. I thought the craftsmanship of the novel was superb, and I really enjoyed R.W.’s style. I like that the book forces you to ask a lot of questions about its purpose and the way that purpose is accomplished. But when I finished the book, I realized that I didn’t especially enjoy reading it. I think there were some sub-themes that didn’t agree with me, which made it hard to buy in by the ending (which requires a lot from its readers). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Police brutality

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death, Grief, and Suicide attempt

pedanther's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Terminal illness, Infertility, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Dementia, Misogyny, Racism, Ableism, and Bullying

Minor: Drug use, Colonisation, Vomit, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Child death

aelunny's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

If I'm honest, I would've liked this book a lot more of I read it before I read Braiding Sweetgrass. I like the unique format of the book, and I understand it's charge, but I feel like my view on nature was already connected to the slow and deep way this book portrays it, and therefore I don't know if it hit as much as it did for all of the other people who are singing it's praises. Maybe I'm being harsh because it was really well written, but this is my review so it stands as is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault and Miscarriage

anouks_books's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-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

I already look forward to rereading this book in order to understand it better and take notes of all the little, beautiful passages. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Police brutality, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Infidelity, Sexual content, Drug use, and War