Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous

76 reviews

abookbitch's review against another edition

4.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Alcohol

umarshahzad's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 22%

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It was really disturbing of how a person would think of hurting girls like that. As Jack Edwards said “it wants to be like Lolita so bad”. It fails to explore the women in another way other than them being commodities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment

swinevenus's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent

mack_urdaddy's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Addiction

brandiereadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content

jayismit's review against another edition

3.25

dark sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault

connie_08's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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the main character of the book was so insurable, however i do think that was very intentional. well
written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol

hue's review against another edition

1.0

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

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Just had to know what it was about, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol

redsunnbby's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The main character is a piece of trash on fire. He’s a narcissist, alcoholic, and toxic. He is a sick person and is really just looking out just for himself. The character is supposed to be unlikable and is set in his ways through the whole book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Blood

I liked this book despite the character. It reminded me of some people who I’ve always wondered how they navigated through life being this way and it gave me an insight as to how they think. I’ve read better books but this isn’t worst!

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

2.75

dark funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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lots of potential, average execution.

i picked this up because i saw a youtube short that basically said something along the lines of "i'm halfway through this book and i feel sick" backdropped by a picture of the first page, adorned with the very eye-catching first sentence:
 

i liked hurting girls. 

i was intrigued, because i'm a fan of all things dark, disgusting, disturbing, mental.

and the first third was quite good, actually - funny (the narrator taking the "pith" out of someone's "lithsp" was probably the funniest thing i've read in a book ever) and cynical; the reader absolutely appalled by the narrator and yet being met with smart and relatable quotes, self-aware, realistic observations about life and the relationships we choose to fill it with.

but all of that sort of got lost as the story progressed: the narrator becoming an emblem in AA (alcoholics anonymous), getting a good job, fretting about the future, describing his boring and mid-life-crisis way of living, and tiring everyday life.
halfway through, this turned into some sort of self-pitying self-help book written by a touch-deprived middle-aged man.

and the thing with aisling, right...
the thing we've been waiting for since page one.

it was just silly. i didn't pity the narrator and i also didn't understand what her strategy was supposed to be. it didn't have any impact, wasn't surprising, wasn't brutal at all (which is what i'd desperately hoped for).

it was nothing.

infuriating, considering i read 140 slow and excruciating pages to get to this point just to be disappointed like every girl the narrator fooled back in his prime time. (ironic, if you think about it.)

yeah, i just expected something a little different. i wanted disgusting, unhinged. i wanted another humbert humbert (shame on whoever it was who compared this book to lolita in the synopsis).
i wanted so much more than this.

but alas.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Alcohol

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent