Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

42 reviews

ashleylynn's review against another edition

2.75

“Being perceived is excruciating. Especially if you can’t go person to person explaining why you look like that. I’d go to a lot more stuff if I knew I could take each person aside and explain to them why I look and dress the way I do.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Medical content, and Death of parent

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

readingpicnic's review against another edition

3.0

Honestly, the humor was not for me, and this is a book made up almost entirely of humorous essays. I enjoyed some of it, but reallyy had to embrace the cringe of millennial humor to power through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, and Death of parent

dimeryrene's review

emotional funny slow-paced

3.75

Another funny collection by Irby. This one ranges from her favorite porn to the death of her mother to how to interact with teens. Each essay brings something totally different. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

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

miaomoh's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Excrement, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent

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

adiajamille's review

slow-paced

3.0

This was my first Samantha Irby book. The self deprecation was just too nonstop for me. It made me feel like she actually hates herself but wants to mask it with jokes. There were disgusting (for me, I can’t deal with poo and there’s a lot), and occasionally funny, and to an extent very relatable. I’m not so concerned with the lack of continuity between essays, because that’s kind of the point of books filled with essays. That you share individual vignettes compiled in one place. I don’t know if I’m the audience, despite being a perimenopausal Black woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent