Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

L'uomo che metteva in ordine il mondo by Anna Airoldi, Fredrik Backman

186 reviews

karkei's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense slow-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

4.5

Ove is as old-school as they come. Despite the great reviews I’ve heard about this book, I was quite skeptical. When the story started out, Ove was grumpy and complaining. I wondered if he was one of those characters you’re just not supposed to like. 

While there are still things I disagree with him on, there were so many things that I grew to love about him too - mostly his love for Sonja. What an incredibly heartbreaking, yet equally heartwarming tale. 

In spite of his tough exterior, Ove was a marshmallow inside. People back then were just not taught to express themselves quite emotionally. What a tough bunch of people the boomers were. 

These were just an outstanding bunch of characters. Ove was such a simple man but yet so complex. His characterization was so intricately woven - I want to applaud Backman. Ove reminded me of other characters I like - partly that old man in Pixar’s “Up” and partly Richard Gilmore from Gilmore Girls. They must be cut from the same cloth. I also absolutely loved Sonja - she’s such a strong and loveable woman. Apart from that, the diversity that was written into this story certainly didn’t go unnoticed. 

Sonja summed Ove up best when she said he was the oddest kind of superhero. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia, Miscarriage, and Car accident

Minor: Body shaming

emklem's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-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: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia and Miscarriage

Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

bridge_enginerd's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

molliesampson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

wept and laughed (out loud!) all the way through this one

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

hkveit's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Car accident

reminiscences's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

froggoz13's review against another edition

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

2.5

The writing style and the story just aren't for me. The story got better in the second half of the book, but the plot and jokes and characters are too repetitive and satirical. 

Also why are Jimmy and Mirsad together????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

eliya's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

Really sweet, heart warming book. 

Sobbed through the first half. Made me think of my dad. 

There’s something to be said about people from this age group who either never were able, or were never taught or demonstrated how to forgive, how to move on. What your sphere of influence is and others around you

This book is about a man who has good intentions and is sweet on the inside, a nutcracker kind of guy, who is mad for valid reasons and then he finds out life is worth living, okay, and then he’s nice to those around him because they see the soft on the inside of all that hardness. 

I don’t find his meanness charming, I don’t excuse him for the way he talks about his neighbors. I empathize with him. The book was sweet, I cried like a hole in a waterpipe, but I did not like ove and I felt bad for the people around him. 

There’s this weird phenomena of this generation or men, idk what it is, where;
1. what’s happened to you is the worst thing to happen to anyone ever and you can’t move past yourself to acknowledge the suffering that is living, and, 
2. to almost expect your community or the people who you care about to see through your nastiness and show that you’re good. There’s this brand of people who believe that if you do good actions that’ll show you’re good, and you don’t have to show basic human kindness to anyone! Pithy excuse for emotional immaturity that I’m exhausted by and made me angry to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

satanstan's review against another edition

funny reflective 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? Yes

3.0

Cute and unexpectedly funny, an empathetic look into the life of a possibly autistic or at least severely emotionally unavailable boomer l. I did get metaphor fatigue by the end and I felt there were a lot of unnecessary quips about fat people. It was a pleasant enough read but not something I’d necessarily recommend to friends 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Bullying

allydee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail