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Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

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hmnborczon's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

emilyhastings's review against another edition

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2.0

2 ⭐️⭐️

I love Ottessa Mosfegh’s prose but besides that the only thing I even remotely enjoyed about this book was closing it for the final time after a week of being mildly grossed out and disappointed that there wasn’t some kind of cult subplot.

pixylprincess's review against another edition

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Really boring and my eyes started glazing over the words at some point. Second book I’ve DNFed from Otessa, I guess she isn’t for me.

cd777's review against another edition

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3.0

This is my joker

bananahs's review against another edition

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3.0

It was fine? I used this as my "can't sleep during the middle of the night" book. It was a look at the imperfect nature of humanity and there are no true protagonists in real life. The "gross" scenes were mildly off-putting at best, but maybe I am just desensitized having grown up through the dawn of the internet and those years where parents didn't know they should monitor your activity to keep you off of questionable sites.

This was my first Ottessa Moshfegh book, and apparently their most controversial in terms of liked/disliked, so I guess it's time to check out their other works.

dalhausen's review against another edition

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3.0

I was surprised by the comic elements of this story (in a good way), fascinated by the fantastical threads that run through it, and impressed as always by anyone's ability to name more than 5 types of birds or herbs in a single sentence. That kind of knowledge seems to be employed often in poetry, and just as then, it dazzles me to imagine that kind of versedness with nature. Moshfegh's richness of voice grows and grows.

Overall undecided on how I feel about it, but as always, she's pushed me as a reader to wonder why so few authors press up against the disturbing as a fact of life and a source of wonder.