Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

1 review

asahome's review against another edition

3.0

TL;DR: Well written slice of life blurbs with historical, modern, and even futuristic settings. Would recommend for short story fans. 

I found it difficult to decide where the content warnings should be because I usually decide based on how much page time an item gets. As these are all short stories, this measure didn't help. I decided to break it up based on how many stories dealt with the issue.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity, Confinement, Alcohol, Violence, War, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

Homophobia:

set in the historical context of the 1950s it mentions men who don't have passions towards women and how they behave with their partners to hide their relationships

Grief:

there are couple stories with different stages of grief, a veteran who has came home from the war and can't settle, a young man discovering something about his father that hurts their relationship

War and Violence:

one story discusses a war veteran's home life afterwards and he has a flashback to when he was active military

Confinement and Xenophobia:

this story was about someone being snuck into the US, we don't look at it from the person in confinement's perspective, but we do watch them crawl in and out of their hiding place, I didn't put this under trafficking because that feels like something with malicious intent towards the person where the story spoke of friends