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Parlarne tra amici by Sally Rooney

165 reviews

thebookesquire's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

update: 
Listen. When I first finished this book, I thought yeah this a 4/5. I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did and somehow I ended up loving it? Then a few weeks passed and I found myself thinking about it all the time. Going back to it constantly. I realized I was irrationally obsessed. I say irrationally because is it the best writing/plot/characters? No. But Rooney found a way to carve herself right into my little heart.

original:
Sally Rooney is incredibly skilled. Her writing is extremely intimate, almost to the point of discomfort. Her observations on the mundane daily life of her characters, their gestures, and the environment surrounding them is profound. She always leaves me craving more and I finish each of her novels disturbed yet seeing the world around me in a vastly different perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Rape, Infertility, and Toxic friendship

bookhoarder93's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

As with any Sally Rooney book, the main characters feel real and the stories surrounding them seem plausible. I enjoyed the ever changing dynamics and relationships between each of the main characters. The ending felt complete while not being final. It masterfully captures the complicated nature of relationships, speaks to love and how love manifests, and what contemporary dating can be like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, Sexual content, Infidelity, Chronic illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Alcoholism and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

katejackson's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Infertility

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

maddalenacesco's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

3.5

she just like me fr

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Infertility, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Alcohol, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Biphobia

crawforl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.5

I feel like I didn’t process this book well enough to write a proper review. I did find that I related to Frances in that I also struggle with identity/personality and wanting  to be liked/seem interesting. 
However, she seems to create like 99% of the conflict in the book by being withholding for no apparent reason, so. I don’t know if that’s supposed to be the point? Like she doesn’t reveal anything about herself as a means of seeming more interesting, but ultimately hurts the people who are already interested in her by doing so? Also for a book called conversations with friends she seems spend a lot of time avoiding conversations… with her friends.  
I will say I had to google a chapter by chapter synopsis of everything that happened because I found it all blended together by the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Self harm

Minor: Miscarriage and Infertility

anneroza's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Infidelity, Addiction, Chronic illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Vomit, Mental illness, and Infertility

Minor: Biphobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Miscarriage

juliamakena's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Self harm, Chronic illness, and Infertility

Moderate: Blood, Miscarriage, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

avocadotoastbee's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

I love Sally Rooney's writing style, but having first read Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You there is undeniably a pattern to her stories and characters. Although this is probably due to her own experiences and life, it makes her stories repetitive. Unfortunately, I even have to roll my eyes or put the book down every time one of her female characters asks to be hit by her partner for pleasure, when she is an English major at Trinity and a writer, or when she describes being a communist while coming from a wealthy family.
Viewing Conversations with Friends as a stand-alone novel, without considering Sally Rooney's other novels, I enjoyed the plot and found many of the characters' thoughts relatable. The way she describes all the unique relationships between the main character Frances, her ex-girlfriend Bobbi, and the married couple Nick and Melissa is exhilarating. All of them are flawed and have their own motives. As Frances narrates the story, it's hard to find any of the characters completely likable. But I found myself rooting for different characters at different times in the novel.
As the story progresses, Frances continues to develop as a person, grow up, and figure out more and more what she wants, who she is, and what she is capable of. It was fulfilling to see Frances come to conclusions at the end that I, as a reader, an outsider, had made from the beginning.
While I like Sally Rooney's novels, I have to say that this time I was  in part only able to empathize with the main character and find her transformation interesting because I am the same age (21) as her. I had higher hopes for Conversations With Friends and have to admit that I was a little disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Infertility, and Mental illness

hjhannah_4's review against another edition

DBF at 230 pages. I really tried you guys. Not even Taylor Swift could help get me through this book. Unfortunately it is not possible to give a zero star rating. Seriously, save yourself the headache, the time, and the braincells.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Medical content, and Fatphobia

mxbluet18's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

0.25

I really struggled with this one. I didn't have to put it down and walk away, but I found myself not really wanting to read it a few times.
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Similarly to Normal People it also covers some heavy topic material and has a number of trigger warnings. 
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Realistically, I can't really say I enjoyed it, I mostly feel neutral about it. There really wasn't anything I liked or specifically didn't like about it. It was just a book. One comment I had was how focused on sex it was, which for me is something I just don't enjoy reading in a book. For other people I'm sure that's not a real problem, but for me it was.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Eating disorder

Minor: Self harm