Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Letztendlich sind wir dem Universum egal by David Levithan

55 reviews

capyval's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

1.0

I never felt like burning a book before, until I read the Day 6025 of this book. It's the most fatphobic thing I ever read. Please, never give this book to an obese person, especially not a teenager, especially not if he's a boy.

Up until that moment I thought the book was a bit boring, and cheesy, I disliked the stalking for love thing, and in fact it didn't make much sense to me that the protagonist would fall that hard for Rhiannon (which doesn't have a likeable personality, in my opinion), but also I thought the book was alright. I was probably going to rate it 3.5 But no, that chapter was... Disgusting. Not because that day-life was disgusting, if not for the utter fatphobia. According to Levithan, obese people are: lazy, slow, they don't have an interesting mind, they look very ugly, they are a failure.

I guess this author needs to inform himself a bit more next time.

It's all a shame, because I liked other books by him, in fact I still have a few more unread books he wrote waiting in my bookcases, but... I don't feel like touching a book he wrote ever again. I'm disgusted at him. So much for diversity, huh?

Despite all, I finished the book, but I only saw myself rolling my eyes at all the cheesiness.

I'm giving this a 1 instead of a 0, because I only started to hate the book at about 85%

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Stalking

thedreammachine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Self harm, Violence, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Dysphoria

dreamerfreak's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

deestreet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

b0wt13s's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

i wanted it to have an easy ending where everything worked out, and of course it didn’t. i find it worked better that way, though, and i think it would leave readers less satisfied if it all ended perfectly.
the discussion of gender, particularly a’s gender, were very ahead of ”every day”’s time, and i was impressed by that. nonbinary and genderfluid identities weren’t the talk of the town in 2012 the way they are today, but i found david levithan put them into words very nicely.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Transphobia

the fatphobia/body shaming occurs when

a is in the body of a plus-size man for a day, so is brief but present.

the transphobia occurs when

a is in the body of a trans guy, and rhiannon refers to him with she/her pronouns due to not understanding trans people.

juanrubin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Hate crime, Infidelity, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Homophobia, Self harm, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Vilely fatphobic

helen777's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse and Fatphobia

meesheltx's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.75

The characters were all 16 years old and it showed. There was just a lack of depth that I look for in books that I enjoy. 

One of my main complaints was the fatphobia. It was really abhorrent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

k8lynn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-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

3.5

i flew through this one! this book had its up and downs for me. david levithan's writing is excellent,

however i'm not a fan of how quickly things start with rhiannon & how things escalate between them rather quickly. why does he love her after like three days? & it felt VERY redundant how on a consistent basis every chapter started with "i'm X miles/minutes/towns away from Rhiannon." creepy stalker much?

i'm also really disappointed in the fatphobic chapter and the chapter with the suicidal ideations; the way these were handled were very abrupt and insensitive. i understand why some people really hated this book (due to the chapter where A is like 300lbs & a trigger warning on the addict and suicidal people would have been nice!). his descrptions of life in a 2X body are quite offensive and i don't even relate to that.

those parts made me very uncomfortable. the second to last chapter made me cry & i was very enamored with all the different people we had the opportunity to meet whilst reading this. very clever concept, but i would have handled certain ideas better and paced things a lot differently if i wrote this. finally, the ending is very sad and in some ways feels empty. & some topics/ideas/feelings A feels passionate about throughout the novel fall short at the end which bothered me a bit. an altogether great read, but i had a lot of qualms that skewed my overall judgment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

d00rframe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Death of parent, and Alcohol