Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

Die geheime Geschichte by Donna Tartt

183 reviews

winlei's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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I really had to sit with this book before giving it a rating because I’m so conflicted on so many levels. And maybe that’s what this book wants you to feel - conflict. It’s the simple fact of horrible people doing horrible things and then watching the fall out from it. It’s fascinating. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. It’s terrible but you can’t exactly look away. I had issues with the pacing. The first 250 pages - and yes TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, at LEAST- were hell to get through. It dragged, so slowly, that I really thought that there was no way I’d be able to make it through. But then it kicked into another gear and while it was still slow, it was definitely well outside of the DNF range. 

It’s fascinating to me that even though this book was written by a woman there’s no actual flushed out female representation. Camilla is a projection of all these men’s desires but with no actual agency herself. But maybe it’s about time women write poorly developed female characters? Like maybe that’s the real representation??Much to think about. 

All in all? I still have no idea how I feel about this book, the story or the execution. I know I could never in good conscience recommend it to anyone else but I’m also at the very least glad I read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Homophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia

adearen's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Islamophobia

capucapulet's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt

julswk's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Incest, Rape

twilightsparkle07's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Incest, Suicide, Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent

hellothereforeitsalex's review against another edition

3.0

dark relaxing sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

anniey's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, Incest, Islamophobia

zoehakim's review against another edition

5.0

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

kakeyame's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Sexism, Islamophobia, Murder, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gun violence, Mental illness, Alcohol

aditi_801's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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WOW. This book. It honestly leaves me speechless, yet I have a million thoughts running around in my head. So much was happening. I hated every character except perhaps Francis who was slightly less hateable. You'd thing hating all the characters would be a turn off, but it only made the reading experience more delightful. I normally don't leave a spoiler including review, so let's go over this book without any spoilers. Bunny has been killed by his closest friends. Why? Well it's insanely complicated but maybe because of mr. manupalative and psychotic Henry. Robert was the craziest narrator i've ever had the experience of encountering. With his naive, trusting, and dumb nature, you sometimes had no way to differentiate what actually happened and what he thought happened. You could never trust him. Francis, the gay rich boy was probably the most likeable character because of his lack of pyschotic nature and mostly friendly persona. Charles and Camilla (the sus twins) are self explanatory enough. The writing in this book overall, was an experience in itself that you simply cannot miss. It kept me enaged the entire time in it's tragic beauty. Seeing Robert's view of beautifying everything he see's was so unique. Most of the books I read are from sarcastic narators that hate the world, so this was a nice change. Overall, I love this book so much that I want to tear it up, toss the pieces in the sea, and jump in with it. Beauty is terror, after all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Incest, Schizophrenia/Psychosis