Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

26 reviews

kylieqrada's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

Samantha Irby is so unapologetically herself and I dig that vibe so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Chronic illness

Minor: Homophobia, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism

river_jean_sterling's review against another edition

I picked this book up because I thought it would be a good balance to the slow period piece classics I'm reading. I ignored the reviews that said it was too dark, too self depreciating, inappropriate and immature thinking it would be acerbic and funny. It ended up feeling sad, pathetic, and honestly gross. 

After the essay in which she talks about being explicitly propositioned by an adult when she was thirteen but not acknowledging anything wrong with that, I only attempted another one or two essays before giving up. I never came across anything funny, it was all just depressing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Fatphobia

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racism, Cursing, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Abandonment, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, and Grief

Minor: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Medical content, Slavery, and Chronic illness

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

i adore Samantha Irby and their writing. this book is funny, honest, and full of relatable moments. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Alcohol, Ableism, Abandonment, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

colinlievens's review

funny lighthearted reflective relaxing

3.0

Couldn’t decide if I found Irby to be insufferable or hilarious. Sometimes I felt she was trying too hard to make me laugh and other times I did genuinely laugh out loud. 

If it wasn’t for the fact that I’d borrowed the book from my boyfriend and she’s one of his absolute favourite writers, I’m not sure I would have bothered finishing this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Infertility, Classism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Terminal illness

I feel like with these content warnings I made this book sound horrific. Irby brushes over topics lightly and with self deprecating humour. She’s not shy about her sex life or her shitty childhood or both her parents being dead, but seeing as all the essays are essentially unrelated then you can just skip past any that might feel a little too close to the bone for you.

zosiablue's review

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Whenever I'm low, which I've been lately, my therapist begs me to read something other than gore and horror and murder. So, here I am in an unfamiliar genre, funny & chill autobiographical essays! Samantha Irby is delightful and light and did a good job of resetting my brain a little. I can't really rate this because it felt too light for me, even though she hits on some heavy topics (poverty, parent death). But even though this isn't really for me (it's me, not Samantha), mostly this just reads like your good friend telling fun stories at a bar and I'm gonna keep going through the rest of her books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Grief, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Infertility

Moderate: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Classism, and Alcoholism

sglance9's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Animal death

uranaishi's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death of parent, Excrement, Physical abuse, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Ableism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Racism, Body horror, Pregnancy, and Blood

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.5

A very fun read that should be done with headphones in. Ms. Irby is such a fun writer, and I'll be reading more of her books in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Animal death, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Infertility

Minor: Vomit and Animal cruelty

bookish_purrsuits's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Ableism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Infertility, Child abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, and Classism