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sunn_bleach'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Grief and Cursing
Moderate: Hate crime, Confinement, Bullying, and Animal death
Minor: Classism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Death
kaywhiteley's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Minor: Rape and Homophobia
savvylit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Overall, this book is difficult to describe beyond just a list of words/vibes so that's how I'll leave it.
Lanny is
enchanting
empathetic
heartbreaking
triumphant
& artful.
Graphic: Homophobia, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Kidnapping
michael_richter'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
3.5
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Confinement
Moderate: Pedophilia
Minor: Homophobia
bronzeageholly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Violence and Bullying
Minor: Ableism and Homophobia
miles's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Lanny is a wonderful, mesmerising, folktale-y story about an enchanting and curious child. Lanny seems not quite like a human child, even to his parents and Dead Papa Toothwort - a sort of tree god, if you will, who has been in the small English village the story takes place in since the very beginning - has taken a liking to this strange, wonderful child. Why would DPT see Lanny as his favourite if there wasn't something truly otherworldly about him? Everything we learn about Lanny just screams 'changeling' to me and I love it. Anyway, I digress. I love this book too much.
The writing is absolutely brilliant, Porter captures me like no one else has in a very long time. Reading and re-reading Lanny fills me with a sort of creative juice that I haven't felt in a long time. It makes me feel alive. It makes me feel like I can take on the world. I don't know what it is, I can't explain it but my god do I love Max Porter's writing and stories and ideas. I love books that play around with fonts and boldness and font size and other funky formatting stuff that makes a text almost three-dimensional and that much more real. I struggle a lot with being able to visualise character actions and appearances in stories, but Porter's writing speaks to me on a bone-deep level. I know all of this sounds weird and over-the-top but it's all I have to describe it. It's a feeling that I can't put into words very well. There's obviously still a lot of stuff in Lanny that I'm not able to fully follow visually because it's so weird and fucked-up (in the best way), but it doesn't make me feel unimaginative or confused like other novels do and for that I fucking love it.
TL;DR I went a bit off-topic and just raved about Max Porter, but anyway Lanny is a masterpiece and you definitely NEED TO READ IT RIGHT NOW and then recommend it to everyone you see.
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Homophobia, and Pedophilia
marjoleinvanderspoel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death and Confinement
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Excrement and Vomit
mapscitiesandsongs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Homophobia, and Pedophilia
gladiolus17's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Moderate: Homophobia and Racial slurs
Minor: Child abuse
tina94's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Grief, and Homophobia