Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

30 reviews

skitson's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content

Fetishes and some strange sexual content

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review

funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

     I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I was hilarious and highly relatable. If you are a woman who is perimenopausal or older, especially if you have had mental health struggles, I think you’ll love this book. Even if you aren’t you will probably find it an enjoyable read. 

   The author is so honest about everything she’s struggled with that it’s raw but not sloppy. Also, her imposter syndrome is highly relatable to most people. Though I could have done without some of the “Sex and the City” recaps of changes the author would make it was still funny. 

Narrator Rating: 4.5 stars 

   The author’s voice takes a little while to get used to, at least it did for me. But in the end, the author did an amazing job narrating this book. Having the author narrate a memoir helps you understand more how they felt at the time they wrote the book and when they were experiencing the events. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

amachonis's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia and Death of parent

skyturtles's review against another edition

funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

2.0

Not my favorite work of Irby's. I would recommend her other 2 recent essay compilations over this one. It just had a lot of TV stuff that I didn't find interesting, and there was a lot of... excrement? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Excrement

Moderate: Death of parent and Pandemic/Epidemic

zombiezami's review

While I find Samantha Irby's delivery and comedic style to be endearing, the topics in this book weren't very interesting to me and seemed too much like Wow, No Thank You. At a certain point I was like, yeah yeah, I get the picture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

throwback682's review

funny medium-paced

3.0

Not a bad book at all, just not necessarily for me. My friends loved it. There were definitely many laugh out loud lines! And other times where I skipped most of an essay because it wasn’t grabbing me. The jokes are about  everything from dead parents to diarrhea. This wasn’t my favorite book but it might very well be yours. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, Death of parent, and Alcohol

kylieqrada's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

Anything that can make me laugh so hard I wake my baby up is worthy of a high rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lizzypunch's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Excrement

leweylibrary's review

dark funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

I went back and forth on the number of stars to give this one, but I'm settling on this because:

Yes, it was absolutely hilarious. That chapter about the allergic reaction was probably the funniest thing I have EVER read. 

I actually identified with a lot of the feelings, situations, etc. that Irby explored which is fun because we come from such very different backgrounds. A lot of the stuff we share in common revolves around anxiety so 😂

The Chicago rep obvi 🙌

I really could've done without the Sex in the City chapter. I know basically nothing about the show and truly do not care about it. Some parts were funny or relatable when she'd go off on a related but not SITC integral tangent, but I almost DNF'd at this point. I'm so glad I didn't, but still!

Early on in the book there is some like really graphic talk about sex and my asexual ass was so fucking uncomfortable lol. I'm sure others won't mind, but it was just too much for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Racism and Sexism

a_lyttle_book_blog's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

This book was absolutely hilarious. There were parts where I was laughing so hard that my husband would look at me like 🤨

I picked this book to fulfill the Q on my A to Z reading challenge and I'm so glad I did. I will definitely be recommending this to others because everyone should laugh this hard at a book. It's good for the soul

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Excrement, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content