Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

13 reviews

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

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.

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

_bxllxe_'s review

funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I love Samantha Irby. SHE JUST GETS ME. I feel like we are probably the same person. Even though I’ll never meet her in real life, I will go to my grave laughing out loud whenever I think of her essay, “Fuck it, bitch. Stay fat.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Cursing

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Addiction, and Alcoholism

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

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

bexi's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Excrement, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Addiction, Racial slurs, Medical content, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, and Homophobia