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Lanny by Max Porter

18 reviews

sunn_bleach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Cursing

Moderate: Hate crime, Confinement, Bullying, and Animal death

Minor: Classism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Death

erishti's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

Painfully beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Sexual content, Cursing, and Animal death

Moderate: Gore, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide, Trafficking, Rape, Alcohol, Excrement, and Murder

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Animal death, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Cursing

zarap's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

What a bright and heartbreaking and well-crafted book. I'm sure I'll have more thoughts in daylight but I don't always remember to come back to write a review. Just. Chef's kiss. I'm a bit sorry I waited so long to read it but I also think it was the perfect time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

joseph_nevnev's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

A small animal is killed in a very brutal and quite graphic way

spookybookylonnie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

This is the first book in a while I've had to stop at the end, sit in silence and really digest.

I am in love with the way Max Porter wrote this. The words literally jumped around the page to reflect Dead Papa Toothwort's inner thoughts and listenings. You may know him as The Green Man.

This book was disgusting, bizarre, wonderful, magical, insane and I loved every second. It centres around a young boy called Lanny who is fantastic and weird, his life full of the whimsy he invents through art, nature and curiosity.

I won't say much more, it's a hard one to explain without giving too much away, but I absolutely loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Racism

savvylit's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Lanny is a beautiful book that's equal parts dark folktale and character study. Lanny and the adults in his life all figure heavily in this novel. Lanny's mother and his art mentor, Pete, nurture and encourage Lanny's unique creativity. Lanny's father loves him but doesn't know how to nurture his son. Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythological character that is the mischievous soul of the village, recognizes Lanny's quiet brilliance. The village, as heard by Toothwort, is also a character in itself vis a vis overheard snippets of gossip. These snippets are interwoven throughout the novel until it becomes clear that they represent the ways that outsiders can taint beauty with their presumptions.

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping

michael_richter's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Confinement

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Homophobia

koplomps's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Bullying, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

louisegraveyard's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, and Gore

Moderate: Death