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get_wrecked_mate's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Edit: just found out this is matty healy's favorite book and the math is mathing
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Racism, Addiction, and Pedophilia
ethanethan's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism
Minor: Addiction and Alcohol
jazz_themortal's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Stalking, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, and Cursing
Minor: Slavery, Pedophilia, and Body shaming
caseylovett's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual assault
versmonesprit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Burroughs does that.
In this very fast paced book, everything is told, but it works. His pen’s simplicity is in its ease with its mastery with words, because he can sketch entirely developed characters in a single paragraph. Reading Queer is like a whiplash, and not like reading at all: it sucks you in, and you’re taken on a journey. It’s the sort of book that you feel a concrete connection to.
This is the book that made me fall for Burroughs’s works, and for many good reasons. I can’t lie that one of them is how a guy is treated very much like a manic pixie dream girl, which is both refreshing and almost hilarious because who knew Burroughs drew the blueprint! (lol)
Sorry for not having been able to formulate a structured opinion, this was a whiplash of a book and I still cannot collect my thoughts!
Minor: Addiction
marianneiriss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Xenophobia, Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Ableism, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Police brutality
rhii_reading's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Addiction and Drug use
Moderate: Racism and Pedophilia
a_p_n's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Pedophilia, Cursing, Racial slurs, and Addiction
shauna1406's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Cursing
Minor: Cursing and Pedophilia