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k_buck4's review against another edition
mysterious
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
2.75
kassiani's review against another edition
3.75
About undiagnosable chronic illness // ´All’s well’ by Mona Awad.
Loved the reflections on friendship, the dissociation vibes and the relationship between your consciousness and your physical body, and how it changes through the experience of chronic pain. New-age spiritual treatment - super sketchy and culty.
« the impression of being just a Sack of flesh full of problems »
Insane job / sociological relationship experiment : a set of girlfriends (emotional gf, angry gf, maternal gf, intellectual gf, intimacy gf…)
Liked Part I (esp the ending)
Internal directives : who’s allowed to feel your feelings, rationalization of feelings… Goal: to manifacture/solve love.
The ethical conundrums! All for the ego of a pretentious film bro.
Really liked some of the writing, but Mary had the blankest slate as a personality, which got annoying.
Loved the reflections on friendship, the dissociation vibes and the relationship between your consciousness and your physical body, and how it changes through the experience of chronic pain. New-age spiritual treatment - super sketchy and culty.
« the impression of being just a Sack of flesh full of problems »
Insane job / sociological relationship experiment : a set of girlfriends (emotional gf, angry gf, maternal gf, intellectual gf, intimacy gf…)
Liked Part I (esp the ending)
Internal directives : who’s allowed to feel your feelings, rationalization of feelings… Goal: to manifacture/solve love.
The ethical conundrums! All for the ego of a pretentious film bro.
Really liked some of the writing, but Mary had the blankest slate as a personality, which got annoying.
blyttgh's review against another edition
3.0
05/08/24 Very polarizing — I almost wish I was on either end of the spectrum instead of ambivalent in the middle. I really enjoyed the main narrator’s mind and I wonder what this could’ve been without the sudden shift to third person. This was a whirlwind with equal parts intriguing and ineffective moments.
Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this? It was too sad to believe that we had just been two people staving off loneliness together.
82
Was there anything left of me in my mother?
88
all that stopped her from giving up was the belief that only incredibly boring people have lives that go the way they expect.
99
a man so stingy with himself that he refused to witness another’s pain.
130
boys grew up to be men, but girls just stayed girls as long as the whole world agreed to treat them this way, liabilities, precious objects, things to be protected or told what to do.
159
protecting her history was the only way she could control it, that if no one knew the way her childhood had been taken, then she had, in a way, taken it back.
239
He talked so much that Mary forgot she also had the ability to say things and her mute watching fueled him.
241
Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this? It was too sad to believe that we had just been two people staving off loneliness together.
82
Was there anything left of me in my mother?
88
all that stopped her from giving up was the belief that only incredibly boring people have lives that go the way they expect.
99
a man so stingy with himself that he refused to witness another’s pain.
130
boys grew up to be men, but girls just stayed girls as long as the whole world agreed to treat them this way, liabilities, precious objects, things to be protected or told what to do.
159
protecting her history was the only way she could control it, that if no one knew the way her childhood had been taken, then she had, in a way, taken it back.
239
He talked so much that Mary forgot she also had the ability to say things and her mute watching fueled him.
241
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
gnoelproduction's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
sunflower_martha's review against another edition
1.0
Ho comprato questo libro d'istinto, subito dopo aver finito "Nobody is ever missing" della stessa autrice, ma non ha decisamente sortito su di me lo stesso effetto.
Per quanto continui ad apprezzare lo stile di scrittura, non ho trovato la storia coinvolgente e, a tratti, ho avuto l'impressione che ci fosse troppa carne al fuoco o buchi di trama, anche se riconosco siano stati "creati" intenzionalmente. Ho apprezzato anche alcuni dei temi trattati nel romanzo, come il concetto di identità, il passato nascosto, in che modo si possa definire reale un sentimento, nonostante ciò ho fatto fatica a finire il libro, la lettura si è trascinata in modo pigro e a volte un po' frettoloso, perchè volevo vedere dove andasse a parare.
Mi dispiace che non mi sia piaciuto, perchè "Nobody is ever missing" invece mi ha davvero tenuto incollat* alle pagine.
Per quanto continui ad apprezzare lo stile di scrittura, non ho trovato la storia coinvolgente e, a tratti, ho avuto l'impressione che ci fosse troppa carne al fuoco o buchi di trama, anche se riconosco siano stati "creati" intenzionalmente. Ho apprezzato anche alcuni dei temi trattati nel romanzo, come il concetto di identità, il passato nascosto, in che modo si possa definire reale un sentimento, nonostante ciò ho fatto fatica a finire il libro, la lettura si è trascinata in modo pigro e a volte un po' frettoloso, perchè volevo vedere dove andasse a parare.
Mi dispiace che non mi sia piaciuto, perchè "Nobody is ever missing" invece mi ha davvero tenuto incollat* alle pagine.
plibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
Weird and really wonderfully written with evocative descriptions, with engaging if not quite likeable characters. A satire, it shifts between lightness and sincerity.