Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

8 reviews

lauralintunen's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Slavery, Xenophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

emelayaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia

brianna2811's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Medical content, Dementia, and Stalking

karol99's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, and Alcohol

luvkillzall's review against another edition

i genuinely cannot stand the way the boys talk about the girls, the male gaze in this book is just too gross for me to read rn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

beesbumblebooks's review against another edition

dark funny sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I really like the writing style of Jeffrey Eugenides. Even the translation to German worked well. I like how he wraps heavy topics in the banality of everyday life, and how the tragic story is hidden by the perception of the bystanders, who all tell stories from their angles, mixed with their view on the world and their boring problems. It ist very sensitive in some, and very cynical in other parts. Since the story gets lost all the time in the side stories of the other persons of the city, the book dragged a bit after a while. Mostly I was really entertained by the side story and thought it was a great way of building an atmosphere and showing the life of a small city, but it got draining for me personally in some parts, especially since it was between all the tragic parts that I couldn't take too well emotionally. 

I also had my problems with the language, nowadays being racist, fat-phobic, sexist in subtle ways, but it's never that subtle, is it? It's an older book which makes me understand it, but doesn't make me like it. 

I didn't like the ending, because it feels like after a whole book of feeling with the girls and seeing their struggles, it seriously blames them for not wanting to live anymore. It blames them for not caring for the people around them, who voyoristically participated in their suffering withour reaching out. Maybe I get that part wrong, but it felt that way and it really threw me of after the general tone of the book was so different.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Self harm, and Sexism

taylorttea's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

men need to stop writing women in such a way that makes me want to gouge my eyes out. its worse when its not even a good story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

katemolony's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, and Grief