Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Il mio anno di riposo e oblio by Ottessa Moshfegh, Gioia Guerzoni

443 reviews

mia_stenbro's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

sunnytato's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.25

This book is an exaggeration of what I feel like many of us want to do sometimes. Have you ever wanted to just pause life or sleep through it all sometimes? That’s exactly what she does. The main character was awful and unlikeable at most times, but I still found myself relating to her with different things. I was sad to hear about Reva in the end as well; it was beautifully written and sad, but not surprising. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Vomit, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion and Suicide

radicaledwardiv's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Sexual content, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

joanaavilameneses's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, and Alcoholism

aoifehasnogoodname'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Drug abuse, Addiction, Abortion, Dysphoria, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

lady_oracle's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

“Sodium”: salt, white, clouds, gauze, silt, sand, sky, lark, string, kitten, claws, wound, iron, omega.
“Lauryl”: Shakespeare, Ophelia, Millais, pain, stained glass, rectory, butt plug, feelings, pigpen, snake eyes, hot poker.
“Sulfate”: Satan, acid, Lyme, dunes, dwellings, hunchbacks, hybrids, samurais, suffragettes, mazes.

quite possibly one of the literally coolest books available on planet earth. who doesn't just want to take a year off? and not die, necessarily, but sleep? ottessa nails this. really fascinating take on the hero's journey, where really all the protagonist does is pop pills and pass out, effectively falling deeper down the rabbit hole of drug abuse. a thoughtful perspective of grief and trauma - and my favourite, an unlikable, relatable bitch of a narrator.

the memories of her parents were so spectacularly done. the passage in particular about the week leading up to the day of her father passing made me a bit queasy, because that was nearly exactly the experience i had with my own. prose was poetic and tactile. also love-hated the doctor.

some questionable moments, but nothing i think too shocking for anyone who's familiar with this author. so glad this is what i've kicked off 2024 with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual assault, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Infidelity, Suicide, and Vomit

caroisreading's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-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

3.5

This book is framed as dark comedy, but I would say it's absurd realism, if that's even a thing. It's the most beautiful, perfect piece of writing about the most mundane, depressing plot and set of characters.

I can see how purposefully crafted our narrator is -- a blonde, waify model-type with endless funds, apathetic to her loveless family and relationship. She is the beautiful container of everything nasty and mean, addicted to cocktails of prescribed pills. She seethes with hatred any time she encounters her only friend.

This is a sweeping commentary on millennial absurdities, meaningless lives, isolation from society, sexism, pharmaceuticals and other synthetic relief. The desire to be seen, even in insanity. 

You'll like this is you want something trippy, dark, that takes you out of your own self-pity and hatred just by comparison.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Vomit, Confinement, Cancer, Abortion, Alcoholism, and Toxic friendship

yarakeijlard's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Racism

lulla_byyye's review against another edition

dark reflective relaxing 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

sestout's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Toxic friendship