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A review by bookwarmm
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
3.0
2.75 stars
Not really sure how I feel about this book.
It actually left me feeling disappointed. A book with such a beautiful title and such a beautiful cover and with so many people praising about it I did have high expectations.
A lot of the times while reading I truly thought it was beautiful... other times it left me feeling weirdly untouched by whatever was happening (good or bad). The whole of the book is carried by language I would say. Definitely a language driven book with some plot to it, which is usually my favorite type of prose. However On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous although its lyricism, did not move me at all for the most part. Especially the middle of it was hard to get through while towards the end I was more gripped by it. Still the ending did not feel satisfying and all I did was read the words without really feeling anything.
Reading about the daily struggles of Vietnamese immigrants living in the US was interesting and very informative and it is always important to find out more about racism still creeping its way through everyday life!
The supposedly beautiful language quite often felt hollow, blurry with no reason behind it though I am sure that Ocean Vuong has reason behind it and maybe the blurriness of the events and language was exactly what Vuong was trying to get across.
So yeah thats my white female view on this book... I might give it another try another time...
Not really sure how I feel about this book.
It actually left me feeling disappointed. A book with such a beautiful title and such a beautiful cover and with so many people praising about it I did have high expectations.
A lot of the times while reading I truly thought it was beautiful... other times it left me feeling weirdly untouched by whatever was happening (good or bad). The whole of the book is carried by language I would say. Definitely a language driven book with some plot to it, which is usually my favorite type of prose. However On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous although its lyricism, did not move me at all for the most part. Especially the middle of it was hard to get through while towards the end I was more gripped by it. Still the ending did not feel satisfying and all I did was read the words without really feeling anything.
Reading about the daily struggles of Vietnamese immigrants living in the US was interesting and very informative and it is always important to find out more about racism still creeping its way through everyday life!
The supposedly beautiful language quite often felt hollow, blurry with no reason behind it though I am sure that Ocean Vuong has reason behind it and maybe the blurriness of the events and language was exactly what Vuong was trying to get across.
So yeah thats my white female view on this book... I might give it another try another time...