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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

302 reviews

hanbu's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

2.75

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bunnoid's review against another edition

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

3.0

my year of sedation and being a shitty friend and person
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hellhathnofury's review against another edition

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dark sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The pacing is difficult to stick with and though an exercise in absurdism, I lost track of what it was the author was critiquing. The main character is the product of nepotism and privilege? Society? Capitalism? 
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ewicht830's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

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yassar's review against another edition

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relaxing fast-paced
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4.5

This was an unusual read, i really enjoyed it. 
I was furious at times, but i sympathised with her deeply.  

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gracefrances's review against another edition

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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? It's complicated

3.25

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hurricaneherder's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad 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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ashhpipes's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-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

A terrible main character. Terrible person, terrible friend, terrible judge of character. How a white, affluent woman can live relatively safely at the absolute bottom of the barrel, with not many repercussions. The hatred for her was a bit comforting in that she also hated herself. Felt reflective of being depressed and hating my own self.
Was almost trauma porn in way, in that it satisfies the itch of wanting to kill yourself without actually doing it.
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iqraina's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful 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

2.5

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pocketjuls's review against another edition

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dark funny sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I started out really enjoying this book, I enjoyed the writing and the concept and the voice is humorous. I did grow tired of the consistency of the main character's head space. As she observes a few new things and different people/places are introduced to the reader such as the therapist (one of my favorite parts), the depressing outlook dragged. Which honestly might be the point, but it does become repetitive. Also there is something less interesting about someone who has family funding to do nothing for a whole year, I felt like that took a dimension out of it and made this extreme experience even less relatable. Still overall happy to have read it, just maybe the pace was a little slow for me. 
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