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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

12 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

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

leefox's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Racial slurs, Gore, Racism, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Sexual content

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.

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

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Chronic illness

Minor: Infidelity, Infertility, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

zoiejanelle's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

fucking hilarious. i especially appreciated her essays on animals and working in animal welfare. sam has such a unique voice and her personification of Hellen Keller the cat and various other hypothetical inanimate objects had me gasping for air (with laughter). a great, quick, reflective and humorous read about relationships, identity, family, and adulthood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

ladythana's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Child abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Infertility, Racism, Grief, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

rynicolereads's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

This is truly a laugh-out-loud essay collection! This was my first time reading anything by Irby and I found her storytelling to be clever, raunchy, and real. I appreciate that she doesn't shy away from difficult topics and will definitely read more by her.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Sexism

n0m_de_grr's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Vomit