Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

39 reviews

bluelizzz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Violence, Fatphobia, Death, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Stalking, Mental illness, War, Torture, and Vomit

todrick_the_tree's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Racial slurs

agatha_hopkins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Blood, Torture, Animal death, Murder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Vomit, War, Confinement, and Body shaming

greenrequiem's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Ableism, and Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Torture, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Classism, War, and Gore

johansene's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Fatphobia, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Abandonment, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, and Torture

mme_carton's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Child death, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Bullying, and Cursing

ok7a's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Bullying, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Torture

_a_r_u_'s review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.25

I read this in one evening and oh boy. Its not bad, by any means. It’s a classic for something. But the characters, their actions and the implied message of the author haven’t aged well. At all. I hated all of the characters (except one) for the entirety of the book, and the only moment I was finally able to empathize with one its not because they have changed their ways and had a remarkable development, rather because they were in a situation of extreme danger and stress. The descriptions were ok, the plot is genuinely interesting  and it could’ve been so good if the characters and the message were different. 
The “only white english culture is the way of civilized men” message was… definitely something… the absolute BLATANT fatphobia was also something… like, at least give the kid an actual name instead of a degrading nickname name…
Again, this could’ve been good (it’s a good book! It’s enjoyable!) but it aged so poorly and has so many terrible decisions that I can’t see it having much more repercussion in the future…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Death, Fatphobia, Child death, Xenophobia, and Animal death

Minor: War, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Torture

jaylee_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Ableism, Blood, Gore, Violence, Bullying, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Body shaming

lilligray's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Torture, Abandonment, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Violence