Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

751 reviews

bethmalena's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

The writing was really beautiful at times. Poetic. But it wasn’t my kind of memoir… some of the reflections and metaphors felt forced, and some of the stories felt too raw and graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Excrement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, War, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Racism, and Xenophobia

acorny's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Racism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, and Addiction

gillian_aftanas's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Abortion, Bullying, Cancer, Grief, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Mental illness, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, War, Homophobia, Death, and Sexual content

softbooknerd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Ocean Vuong has won poetry I guess. His writing style is extraordinarily beautiful and poetic. 
It gave me the urge to think the way he writes.

One tiny critique is that sometimes it was TOO poetic for me. It made it very difficult to understand what this or that sentence was supposed to express.

It also gave me like an idea of how growing up in a white world as a poc is (not to say like omg i know now how racism feels, I will never know how it feels)

This was a deeply touching and thought provoking experience!!
Tbh I don't know what else to say but his writing style truly inspired me!

Have you read anything by Ocean Vuong? I also recommend checking out "Night Sky With Exit Wounds" by him!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Drug use, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

faithreadss's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

pseudolain's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Abortion, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and War

Moderate: Terminal illness, Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Hate crime, and Misogyny

melis_salome's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: War, Homophobia, and Domestic abuse

naiu_cs's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: War, Violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Racism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Abortion, Death, Cancer, Child abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Child death, and Blood

ewwniamh's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-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

5.0

i want to bawl my eyes out after this not even kidding 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Death, and Drug use

Minor: Cancer

meghanelizabeth's review

dark emotional reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Car accident, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Minor: Car accident