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mxcopmy's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
It was just a bit hard to follow at times. He sometimes described 2 different themes in 1 chapter which confused me. I also missed some depth in the story. Every time I caught myself waiting for when I was going to understand his history better, but it didn't come. So while it was an okay experience, I might have expected a bit more emotion from myself as these letters do touch on hugely emotion-laden themes.
Tip: read the book while listening to quiet classical music in the background. This brings the story much more to the fore than otherwise!
Moderate: Grief, War, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Drug use
melanieripple's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Addiction, Abortion, Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Sexual content
Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, War, Death, Grief, Racism, and Mental illness
Minor: Transphobia
pikkumarja's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, War, Homophobia, and Child abuse
Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, and Violence
bookforthought's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Car accident, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and War
etherealisnt's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
This was more of a tough read, at moments it was a lot, but the flow of the book made seamless transitions from paragraph to paragraph. It still left me confused at times, even lost. Not totally jarring, but took me out of the story a few times.
Definitely left some heavy feelings at some parts - it was very raw and organic. Quite strange to understand and not know.
In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, "Có nhớ mẹ không?" I flinch, thinking you meant, "Do you remember me?"
I miss you more than I remember you.
The ending had much more of that foreboding element, I suddenly felt on edge. That's when I started feeling like I had a literal rocks stuck inside my rib-cage, when they moved I suddenly felt sick. It was sad, but a better word would be painful. A painfully beautiful story of living, despite everything.
I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Death
Moderate: Mental illness, Child abuse, War, and Violence
Minor: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Cancer, Abortion, Homophobia, and Terminal illness
hsitbeenworthit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, Bullying, Car accident, Gun violence, Blood, Cancer, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Excrement
sarasreading's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
I didn't know much of what this was about before picking it up, only that it was beautifully written, but reader beware. Read the trigger warnings as there are many and some passages were hard to read.
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Excrement, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, War, and Sexual violence
carolinacortez's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
"what I left behind becomes exactly what I'm running toward -- like I'm part of a family."
Tengo que ser honesta, es un libro complicado de leer, no es una lectura que se lea en una sentada (aunque es cortito), es prácticamente poesía en forma de novela, entonces mi recomendación sería que se lea despacito, disfrutando cada palabra de Ocean.
"The wound is also the place where the skin reencounters itself, asking of each end, where have you been?
Where have we been, Ma?"
Cada párrafo, cada capítulo, cada oración, son hermosos, yo no podía dejar de decir 'no puede ser' de lo bello que está escrito y se ve el amor que hay detrás de cada palabra, que pensó la mejor manera de mostrar una parte de la vida de mucha gente.
"Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. Buy if you were god, you know it's a flood."
En cuanto a las relaciones (tanto con su mamá, abuela, como con Trevor) están súper marcadas las diferencias, como la personalidad de little dog se moldaba según con quién estaba, según lo que la otra persona necesitará de el (muy mirrorball de su parte)
"You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing"
En resumen es una novela preciosísima, solo hay que tener en cuenta que requiere su tiempo para digerirla bien.
Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use
Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Racial slurs, Medical content, Mental illness, Addiction, Blood, Cancer, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Drug use
Minor: Abortion and Death
archiveofrasa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I liked the route it took with the sexuality storyline. I think with these books of this type I expect a chain of boys the main character has been with but it's just one guy that has had a major impact on Little Dog and I appreciate that a lot. and of course, his relationship with his mother, oh God. I don't have anything to say, I just really love this.
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Physical abuse
Moderate: War, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia
Minor: Cancer and Racism
lillieb130's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
Graphic: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, War, Death, Domestic abuse, Cancer, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Blood, and Child abuse