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franksreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Animal death, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Racism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Stalking, Islamophobia, Gun violence, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Kidnapping
ndreher's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Grief, Genocide, and Gun violence
katkatniss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
The romanticization of lives, young and broken and dreaming amid a horrific war, the detachment, the emotionlessness of the unreliable narrator, it hits different. It goes off on tangents, in stream-of-conciousness and almost post-modern imaginations and rambles, in a confusion of reality and speech and imagination and past trauma and present horrors. Yet it never loses its focus. And it is all made very, very, shockingly beautiful.
Particular aspects of the book remind me of The Haunting of Hill House (the loneliness, the absence of a home), The Bell Jar (the jumbling of past and present, the numbness, the numb sadness) and The Cather in the Rye (the anguish, the confusion, the mistakes and being lost in the world), although De Niro's Game discusses themes very different from these books mentioned. Simply genius.
Moderate: Gun violence, War, Confinement, Death of parent, Suicide, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Xenophobia
cami_stokes3859's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Torture, War, Animal death, Death of parent, Child death, and Grief