Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Shining by Stephen King

133 reviews

gard3ngoth's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mangoatwar's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The Shining is a masterpiece written by Stephen King. It perfectly depicts the horrors of human psychology and dives deep into it. The book sends you on a nail-biting, terrifying rollercoaster of emotions. The way this book is written scares you both in the short-term and in the long-term.
Example: Some parts of the book had me shaking from fear and the book instilled a slight fear of hotels into me for the long-term. I do not give this book 5 stars due to the extremely graphic content which I had trouble reading. However, besides the extremely detailed descriptions of violent acts, I love everything about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Racial slurs, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Car accident

camjennings's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, and Murder

drewanslee's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Grief

gyroshrike's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

mostly_present's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pedophilia and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

maysiebe's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

marimaria's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I would recommend reading this book if you're a fan of the film. They're very different from each other, so reading this was like a whole different experience to watching the film. I like how fleshed out the characters were, and the scenes were very descriptive. There was definitely a lot of detailed descriptions of violent occurrences in story. And the atmosphere was just so creepy. I think King was able to capture that really well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Blood

greytai's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Disliked the writing from the perspective of Hallorann, it just felt awkward being written from a white guy. I wish Danny's coming of age too rearly moment was more focused on, but he comes of age too much- he's an 8 year old ghat truly can't process whats going on. But really enjoyed the Hotel coming alive and interacting with the character. The wholesome ending was cute and enjoyable though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

curlykristenk's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

It was a bit slow moving at first but every chapter left me intrigued at the same time. It was really interesting the way King describes Jack’s perspective in his

decent into madness and convincing himself what he was doing was right

and Danny’s perspective being a 5 year old (although at times it definitely didn’t read like a 5 year old). Also has a bit of casual racism (it’s an older book but still a bit jarring) apart from that I really liked it! It made me very creeped out, had my heart racing and I think it was written really well! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Racism and Fire/Fire injury