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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

43 reviews

fviryshelves's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, War, Drug use, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Transphobia, Drug abuse, and Death

lucy12345's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Addiction, Violence, Death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abortion, Excrement, Racism, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: War and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Gun violence and Transphobia

lexipassno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

4.5

heartbreaking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Grief, and Transphobia

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I don’t really read poetry but I have now put Vuong’s works on hold at the library. The writing of this is incredibly lyrical almost dreamlike (or nightmare?). 
I also don’t annotate books but I want a physical copy of this book to annotate because there are so many wonderful lines and quotes and more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Drug abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Vomit, Abandonment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Animal death

sarahrosea's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Sexual content, War, Animal cruelty, and Death

Moderate: Cancer, Colonisation, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Abortion, Blood, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Terminal illness

Minor: Transphobia and Murder

sometimes_samantha_reads's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Racial slurs, Abortion, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

akimakami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It was a privilege to be able to read this book, to exist at the same time as Ocean Vuong. Within the first twenty pages, I already knew this was my new favourite novel of all time. Each word was incredibly purposeful. I felt like my heartstrings were constantly being pulled by the words I was reading. Ocean Vuong- you are a soulful genius

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Homophobia, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Transphobia

emilia_digi's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Death, Cancer, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Addiction, War, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

margozaldivar's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Abandonment, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use

artemisg's review

challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I don’t know if I have the words to review this book properly. I am simultaneously numb and overwhelmed with feeling, and that feeling is both profound existential sadness and immense hope (?). This book was beautiful; every other page held lines I wanted tattooed into my brain.

This book is written as a letter from a son to a mother, telling the story of his life intertwined with his family history. As a family “born from war”, their history is turbulent and filled with tragedy. This tragedy made my heart hurt for quite literally everyone involved. But, the novel continued, diving into the beauty of loving and living, and the family became one “born from beauty”. The beauty they were born from has been directly transferred into the pages of this novel. I was somehow manipulated into loving and caring for seemingly unsympathetic characters because no one in this novel was truly unsympathetic.

Weirdly, it felt like a privilege to read this book. It was very intimate. I felt like I was crawling into Vuong’s brain and having a rummage through his memories. I loved how fractured some of the prose and ideas were; this made it feel like an actual stream of consciousness, a real letter to a real loved one.

Anyway, this review is borderline incoherent; all I can say is that this book is beautiful. Nice work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Transphobia