Reviews tagging 'War'

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

62 reviews

theinfinitebookcase's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Death of parent, War, Sexual assault, and Violence

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, Death, and Homophobia

Minor: Drug use

whosjessanyway's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

Even if this wasn't my favourite work by Vuong, I still devoured this collection. His words pack a punch like no other's. Emotional, raw and human.

& so what - if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel
this fully, this
entire, the way snow
touches bare skin - & is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

firmino_g's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and War

taysa_gzd's review against another edition

emotional

5.0

I mean i knew his writing was impactful but damn, it is strange to read someone who experience life so similarly to me yet so unique. I admire the openess of the author and the masterfull way to manipulate language. 

I'll admit i dont understand all the poems, some are a bit obscure, and i felt like on some pages the formating was unnecessary, but i greatly enjoyed reading this collection! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and War

soswiin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

2.0

i'm sure these are beautiful poems but i just couldn't understand 95% of them. i understood the themes behind this collection but i couldn't apply them to the words on the page all that well

ok but "the most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world" and "maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we're this close to the devil."? COME ON

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, and Domestic abuse

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

Ocean Vuong has a beautiful way of twisting horrible things into beautiful words and making the horrible things seem not so horrible and making the beautiful things not so beautiful. I think I’ll have to sit with this one for a while and revisit to really delve into it, but a soulful read for the time being. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Homophobia

ibadlyneedaread's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

evakonic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

I think the poetry was well-written but some of the topic matter wasn’t really for me. I went in thinking this was more of a series of poems tying into family struggles and grief but I found a lot of it lewd and about other things. That’s fine but just not what I expected.

I wish I read this after On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous instead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse