Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

169 reviews

quirkko24's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, Cannibalism, Excrement, Violence, Murder, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Infertility, Gore, Child death, Blood, Suicide, Incest, Religious bigotry, Body horror, and Animal death

Minor: Vomit, Pedophilia, and Torture

marino_sln's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Vomit, Gore, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Suicide, Murder, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, and Cannibalism

alainral's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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: Ableism, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Rape, and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Classism, Pregnancy, Excrement, and Death

Minor: Incest

sassafrasreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

So gross and strange but a really good read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Gore, Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Ableism, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Violence, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Excrement, Child death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Incest, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Self harm

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

wwvan3ssa's review against another edition

I love the commentary on religion and class. However, this book also comments on things that most books don’t acknowledge and it gets gross. I simply didn’t have the stomach for it, which is not to say that this book is bad. For me it’s a definite 4 stars, but, the open talk of poop, semen, spit, and breast milk..i couldn’t eat and read this. 

SPOILERS!!! 

I pushed through but i skipped the grape scene because i felt nauseous, and then I made it to Ina eating spiders and later eating another human. I just couldn’t do it 😭. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Body horror, Pedophilia, Gore, Excrement, Child abuse, and Death

niamhhurley27's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

i will never look at grapes again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Incest, Kidnapping, Gore, Death, Child abuse, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Excrement, Abortion, Body horror, Grief, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, and Rape

autumngrace08's review against another edition

Bad and disgusting. It’s as if the author thought that writing all known atrocities made them a good writer. It doesn’t.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Vomit, Child abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, Body horror, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Rape, Incest, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

bloupibloupreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Imagine having top quality ingredients and yet still baking a disastrous cake because you can’t follow the recipe correctly. This was my opinion on Ottessa Moshfegh’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”. This opinion still stands with her latest book, Lapnova. 

The intrigue picked my curiosity, the idea in itself is great but the way Moshfegh worked around with it was just not it. It’s always tell, never shown, the book is trying to be “something” deep in a way but completely fails because there is no substance, there’s nothing concrete in this story. 

For My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh just scratched  the top of an amazing idea with her fingernail and never tried to go deeper, here she sprinkles a semblance of deeper knowledge onto a great idea, she works around it never on it. She adds stuff here and there, left and right to the story that just makes everything feel a little bit too much. The book just comes off as trying too hard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Rape, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide, Murder, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

rubyhosh's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Violence, Self harm, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Excrement

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Incest, Murder, Cannibalism, and Death

Moderate: Excrement, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Abortion, and Animal death

Minor: Pedophilia