Reviews

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

moonchild1102's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

3.5

Sie ist bisschen zu sehr wie ich🙃

bannerheldhigh's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

1.25

I wanted to really like this book and had hoped to learn something or find some insight and while I can absolutely respect someone allowing themselves to be vulnerable, all I found was a person who seemed frankly horrible to people around her. 

Her self obsession and need for superiority were difficult to read and the therapist interviews, being only excerpts lacked any kind of depth so you could form a decent understanding of what was going on in this person's life. Mostly what we learned was how she'd slept between sessions, how her medications were affecting her and that she had some new social situation she had hyper-fixated on in the intervening weeks. 

The epilogues were bizarre; mentioning people, events and feelings not brought up elsewhere in the book and just felt cliched. 

Perhaps something was lost in the translation and I appreciate I don't know a great deal about Korean culture to perhaps understand some of the social conventions but still, highly disappointing.

atlastheninth's review

reflective slow-paced

2.5

smellanie_reads's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

2.0

farosh's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

It was interesting to get insight into the structure of a korean therapy session, especially as an aspiring psychologist myself. What I wished to see more of was first first person descriptions of the authors thoughts throughout the sessions.

sinna_aurora's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

cappog's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.25

bucket_filler's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

morchels's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

2.0

I had a difficult time connecting to the author/character. It's a short book but felt like a slog to me. Also the layout was strange, it's mostly transcripts of therapy sessions interspersed with mini essays and the last quarter of the book is just essays, which I felt were more effective than the rest of the book. It's an interesting take on depression and therapy, but it ultimately just wasn't for me. 

songjiwon's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.25