Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Shining by Stephen King

38 reviews

thelightabyss's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia and Pedophilia

grvhppr's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

King is great at building characters from scratch, and he's no less masterful here. I simply found the story to be extremely slow at the beginning, which made it a struggle to get to the latter half of the book for me. My favorite parts are when Jack

battles his alcoholism.

Those felt the most real to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child abuse

Moderate: Cursing and Racial slurs

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

supikarolcia1's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

ivana's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

mariahlindz's review against another edition

1.0

Stephen King's masterpiece...if he didn't feel it was necessary to use racist slurs every five seconds that in no way enriched the plot. If he can fully pull Rage out of print, he should also be willing to yank the harmful language from his books. It's would be so easy to express the violence and hatred of the hotel without using anti-black slurs. Disappointed but not surprised. 

And someone please give this man a course in how to write women. I'm so tired. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

readswitherin's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

Moderate: Homophobia

one brief page tries to explain how a young boy being abused in their childhood by an adult man would cause that individual to later become a serial killer, which is so fucked up.

sunsetcity's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

antonishapolitepeoples's review against another edition

I got about 50% through the book and that was a struggle. I don't have a problem with the book so much as a problem with the character of Jack Torrance. I have NEVER had a fictional character in a book, movie, or tv show upset me as much as him. I do want to possibly finish this book but I struggled with wanting to pick it up to get this far and it almost put me in a major reading slump because I was obsessing over this book and didn't want to read anything else, but I also did not want to read this either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Cursing, Gore, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism