Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

90 reviews

baielleebooks's review against another edition

dark funny reflective 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

5.0

Wolfed this down with pleasure, a perverse kind of pleasure. Can money buy you happiness? My Year of Rest and Relaxation could be viewed as Moshfegh's fierce, ironic riposte to that question. 

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Passage after passage of punchy prose flowed in quick succession as I rapidly leafed through the novel. 

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The savagery of the narrator's put downs of Reva are bleakly funny, and one sympathises with Reva's plight to fit in, especially with the elitist snobbishness levelled against her by the narrator. Dr Tuttle in her conspiracy-theorist-psycho apothecary treatments and diatribes were wild and entertaining. The writing that framed the narrator's past was heartbreaking and her present was dizzying yet compulsively readable. 

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The novel had great thematic terrain in its coverage of rage, grief, beauty, capitalism and America, apathy and more. All of which culminate in a story that is anti-heroic in its honing in on the matters of an imperfect and embittered human heart that beats on in a cruel world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Vomit

obliteraturebygaytorayd's review against another edition

challenging dark funny slow-paced

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

3.25

I’d like to add a well-thought review, but I think I’ll go take a nap instead. Heard somewhere that it’s good for you. If, by some coincidence, I awake less irritable and cynical with an appreciation for birds, benches, and existential bliss, that’s an enjoyable side effect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Confinement, Eating disorder, Self harm, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Excrement

carijacqueline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Excrement

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Excrement, Antisemitism, and Abortion

mariavdl's review against another edition

dark sad

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion

amyford's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

ciiryah's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Eating disorder, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, and Excrement

cherries_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Animal death, Excrement, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism

mentions of 9/11 and terrorism

sorcha's review against another edition

dark reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

stargatelover's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, and Toxic friendship