Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

11 reviews

axel_p's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

This book was absolutely hilarious

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Torture, Sexual assault, and Mental illness

_blue_linckia's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I would recommend it to fans of Clive Barker or Hellraiser.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Blood, Physical abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Excrement, Murder, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

rosekent's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

This book is beyond NSFW but it's not exactly a one-handed affair, either-- reads less like a novel and more like a piss-soaked fever dream of the most deranged sex scenes someone could conjure up. I wonder if audiences 100 years ago had to stop and laugh at what can feel like gratuitous obscenity, but ultimately I enjoyed the ride and found the glimmers of Bataille's mysticism quite haunting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Excrement, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Stalking, Mental illness, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

ashs_ephemera's review

1.0

wtf WAS that???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Death, Murder, Sexual harassment, Body horror, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit

aevaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

tcgarback's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 
Critical Score: B
Personal Score: C+
Reading Experience: 📘📘📘(3/5)

Grabbed my attention at the start and the end, lost me in the middle. Altogether too involved in its own symbolism and musings on agony and pleasure. But this is still a bomb of immorality that is as courageous as it is sleazy—as it’s meant to be, so really, they’re the same thing here.

This is fascinating to me as a piece of transgressive literature, but it’s not something that at all moved me or, given the stuff I’ve read in recent years, shocked me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Rape, Torture, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Death, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

yutrobog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Cursing, Death, Grief, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicide, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

keerak's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Gore, Excrement, Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Death, and Body horror

samuelh2020's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Excrement, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

elaichipod's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I read this book because I read that Bjork's "Venus as a Boy" music video was inspired by it on Genius. I was shocked for a majority of the book and I might just regret reading it. But when I think about "Venus as a Boy," I can see how the main character is Venus. Like a god, he does as he pleases sexually and has this omnipotent power, at least to himself. He and Simone commit all these sex-based crimes with the audacity of a god. I think as a literary work, it is incredibly depraved and there's a lot of "primitive" ideas. I had to stop reading a couple times and just think about what my eyes and brain just perceived.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture