Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

5 reviews

easybakeoven's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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, Misogyny, and Classism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Violence, Vomit, and Blood

Minor: Animal death and Homophobia

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexism, Self harm, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

jennyshelby's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Body shaming, Cursing, Alcoholism, Racism, and Sexism

atiek's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

These stories were meh, but still new, just a tad bit overbearing like all of Moshfegh's characters are.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Drug use, and Sexism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Animal death, and Classism

readingotaku's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

1.0

This is my second time trying to read this book, and I couldn’t get past the second short story. The characters are so flawed they become annoying, and you lose interest in their lives and don’t really care what happens to them.

The descriptions were very intense, detailed which turned my off a bit. Everything was told in black and white while I appreciate a more philosophical approach to building up a story.

Honestly, I found it to be quite a boring attempt at being macabre. I feel like the intent of these stories was to show people are flawed, but the characters are way past being flawed and just seem to be sad incels trying to function in actual society.

Also, I felt the writing was quite racist and classist.

She mentioned how the main lady in the first story was getting hit on by skinny Indian men, and I found that to be so irrelevant. Why not just say skinny engineers? Then the description of the homeless person and following up if you couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman. Just say homeless person then! Not every little thought needs to be spelled out.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism and Classism