Reviews

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

magnetic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

jkwriting24's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-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

4.75

kto2459's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

rachelkollar's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

grandpaweatherwax's review

4.0

Pretty good, short and lovely story

akane_shio's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Sexism, Vomit, and Misogyny

kevinweitzel44's review

4.0

This short story was AMAZING. The dialogue, the writing style, ugh it was perfect. And the movie was adapted SO well. I'm thoroughly impressed that 50 pages could captivate and move me that much.
Full review to be up soon on www.betweenmypages.com

aizataffendi's review

4.0

This was a half-hour read, I never knew that the book is this short! A forbidden love between two men with internalized homophobia, as they "straighten" themselves in the public eyes and repeat their "I am not queer" affirmations. A duped but dutiful wife, who kept her mouth shut and raised her kids to the best of her abilities whilst her philandering husband mucks around. Children, basically growing up without father figures. The reality painted here may sound far-fetched but reading the news (especially here in Malaysia) lately, I feel that this is one reality which is becoming more prevalent in our communities as closeted men feel the need to conform to the conventional definition of love between two people of opposing sexes. I feel for the cowboys, their wives, but most of all.. their children who must have had childhood traumas growing up with emotionally-distant fathers and who in their adulthood may as well suffer another trauma when they uncover the illicit affair of their fathers.

gie's review

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

rikeh's review

4.0

brisk. dually tender and brute. painful.