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A review by booktrotter_bxl
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
4.0
Cause this bad boy is filled with sublime writing and poetry-like extracts. Before buying this book, I saw it marked as a "tiktok book", which made me a little cringe inside cause i know I don't like majority of the books recommended by tiktok.
But it exceeded my expectations and I liked this book.
Like I said, it was especially the writing which I liked: grown up, very poetic an breathtaking metaphors (table, monkey and monarch of butterflies...). BUT I didn't like the structure and the build up. It was at some point very chaotic to me, especially when Vuong suddenly shifts to poetry halfway the book. This is partly personal preference ofc. Glad I read this, though.
But it exceeded my expectations and I liked this book.
Like I said, it was especially the writing which I liked: grown up, very poetic an breathtaking metaphors (table, monkey and monarch of butterflies...). BUT I didn't like the structure and the build up. It was at some point very chaotic to me, especially when Vuong suddenly shifts to poetry halfway the book. This is partly personal preference ofc. Glad I read this, though.