Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Naakte lunch by William S. Burroughs

5 reviews

humanfly's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol

catsarecool43's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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mosaic of terror

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

resolvedpoem's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 24%

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It was for a book club, but everyone decided it wasn’t very fun and wouldn’t be a great time to talk about. A little too heavy for everyone. I was planning to finish it anyway but without the motivation from the club, I too moved onto more fun reads.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Its hard to describe exactly what is upsetting about Naked Lunch, and why, because theres simply so much of it. A very challenging read, at its best, and downright unfun at it’s worst.

moranguinhos's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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even in the annotated version there were so many words i had to google. half were drugs & the other half were sex acts. wild vacation read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder

krisdamnit's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny medium-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The reason I enjoyed this book so much was partially because it's all artsy and clever and avant-garde, but also because it's the book equivalent of a shock image. The amount of stuff that happens in this book, the horrible, horrible stuff, is so just unapologetic that I found myself enjoying the ride, even waiting to see what absolute ridiculous crap would happen next. This definitely isn't the book for you if you don't want to be shocked or have some type of disgusting image seared into your brain, because while I'm not one to quote from books, I won't be forgetting some choice words from this one.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical trauma