Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

3 reviews

chloebowie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Well… it was good enough to keep turning the page but bad enough to where I couldn’t tell you what happened 😅 it was everything and nothing all at once. Nothing was ever really resolved. It’s just stopped. 

If this weren’t a buddy read I don’t think I would’ve finished it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Animal death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

tristemono's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual content, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Self harm

Minor: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

soapyporridge's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.5

 I am indefinitely biased towards this book as I did my dissertation on it so my rating is more of a consequence of personal opinion and attachment than based upon the craft. That being said I still find the ways this book pushes the boundaries of the media to be important. We view books to be isolated incidents when they are far more capable of stretching past the limits of their pages and binding than we can ever fully grasp.
 I know it has many shortcomings. I know that some of it will always just be out of reach of my understanding and some of it will make me angry and frustrate me but I am ok with that.

I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’thing has always been and always will be you.

I miss you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit