Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

38 reviews

mindybrown's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

szymek_w_rodawski's review

emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Racism and War

grapefruitjuice's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, and Classism

lonelylooper's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Blood, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

piprigsby's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

definitely read trigger warnings before reading it, but I loved it so much oh my gosh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

I don't care for books where the author keeps telling me how to perceive things and his way is the way. All these people are unbearable and I don't give a frick about their struggles. What you gonna do about that, Backman?

Giving it 2.5 bc for 65% of the book, I wasn't too aggravated by the writing style and it was even compulsively readable with all the hostage situation and who is the bank robber mystery going on–even if I was finding the characters grating and not relatable at all, which isn't usually a complaint I have towards characters but relatability, empathy seemed to be a pertinent factor for this book. But then, it kept beating the point over and over and over and over the head I got so incensed! I finished the book out of spite bc I'd already spent so many days on it, might as well see how this man wrapped this story up. It's so bad though. Fourth rate Dickens stuff. Oh, and the humor is intolerably bad, too.

Sincerely, an anxious person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia

scmiller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Lesbophobia

fantaiil's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Fredrik Bakmann is and will always be my favourite author. And this is his best one yet (in my opinion).
I love his words, his characters and how he makes me cry while talking about humans and their inability of saying, what they want to say.

This book is about love, despair, kids, dumb choices, pizza, love, marriage, kids and their parents, money, capitalism, love and a bridge. It's about the connection between people and the irrational things we do, when we feel emotions that are to big to describe.

Backman is a magician. A magician of words and sentences and making one feel and cry and laugh and feel once again.

I wish, I could buy this book a thousand times and gift it to everyone I know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

epen's review

hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

I found this book entertaining at times, but most often I found it dragging on. I dreaded much of the dialogue, which I found trite and unrealistic, and in my opinion, the characters were nearly all poorly illustrated caricatures. The book’s messaging was heavy-handed and too much for me. This book is feel-good, I suppose, and I’ve certainly read worse, but it was not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Suicide

Minor: Racism

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol