Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

64 reviews

jakluke's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Well, that was suspicious… I really wanted to love this book, but man was it a slog! 

420 pages of description, very little discourse, 20 characters who were sleeping with siblings, aunties and cousins from across this world of make believe and everyone had the same name … I’m confused. 

It’s a saga, spanning 100 years, but you never know how old people are or what timeline your in. I think one guy died a dozen times and then when he finally died, he came back so often that I just felt I was meeting myself coming backwards. 

I sense something really beautiful in this book, but I think I will find the beauty in a future reread. I am not willing to give up on this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, and Gun violence

metchap's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Incest

wvdgoot's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and War

sina_lchnr's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Wieso so viel Inzest und Pedophile😫 ich habe lange mit dem Buch gebraucht, aber fand die Geschichte der Familie und des Landes richtig interessant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Dementia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

crescentpages's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Murder, Colonisation, and War

zaraloureads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

THIS BOOK. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and War

egmamaril's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Infidelity, Racial slurs, and Racism

sofipitch's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

This is a beautifully written book. It's also very political. It has the same themes of colonialism, political wars, traditional/catholic views vs modern lifestyles, and family that surround a lot of Latin american works. I read "The House of the Spirits" and I can see how Garcia Marquez influenced Allende. The only reason this isn't getting 5 stars is for the depictions of sex, in a lot of scenes the women don't want to and are more or less raped only to "fall in love/have sex all the time" with the man, it happens multiple times and isn't clearly condemned by the text which is, big yikes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Terminal illness, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness and Excrement

Minor: Antisemitism and Abortion

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

This is the story of entire generations of a family, up to the moment they settle in a new land and 'til the bloodline's demise. The Buendía family is definitely something, but I wouldn't say they're a role model (nor does the author portray them as such). Misfortune after misfortune happens to them and it can feel quite fatalist at times, a sort of Colombian Lemony Snicket, but with more incest. There's a lot of characters and the fact that they're named the same had me checking the Family Tree every five pages and even then I'm sure I attributed a plot point to the wrong Aureliano -which I guess is a clever way to force you to immerse in the story and be as lost as all the other Buendías.
In the end that's what this is, a clever book, marvelously crafted with exquisite prose, but deeply disturbing and depressing. I do not agree with GGM's worldview here and the whole Oedipus Complex trope seemed to point at Shakespearean levels of tragedy, but where my man Willy didn't take himself too seriously, GGM does this sad boi act which made me dislike his books in the first place. Appreciate the art, but won't be re-reading it soon, nor recommending it to nobody.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Death, Torture, Police brutality, Dementia, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

savagemoose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

I really liked the magical realism and the pace of the book, but the incest and pedophilia and most of the sexual content was hard to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, and Sexual assault