Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

3 reviews

ehagedorn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Sexual content, Homophobia, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and War

kananineko's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this weird little book. I know it won’t work for everyone, but somehow it worked for me. I love absurd concepts like this and things that examine life and death and afterlife and the in-between and history, so of course I loved it. If you have similar interests, you may feel the same way. But you also might not, because it’s a very weird book. I love the play-like format and the parts that put together historical documents to recount a moment. I’m so glad I read this book and I’m very glad that i I own it!I loved this weird little book. I know it won’t work for everyone, but somehow it worked for me. I love absurd concepts like this and things that examine life and death and afterlife and the in-between and history, so of course I loved it. If you have similar interests, you may feel the same way. But you also might not, because it’s a very weird book. I love the play-like format and the parts that put together historical documents to recount a moment. I’m so glad I read this book and I’m very glad that I own it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Slavery, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Classism, Cursing, Excrement, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

helen's review against another edition

4.0

Difficult to categorise novel - part historical fiction (with quotes from real historical sources), part fantasy (the main characters are ghosts who are in denial about being dead) and part morality tale (with the main message being enjoy life while you can because everything dies).

I found it grimly funny and poignant, but got a bit irritated by the layout - there are chapters of dialogue formatted as a play script, interspersed with chapters of quotes from real and imagined historical sources. It made for a quick read, with lots of blank space on the page, but I would have preferred prose.

As well as reading with my eyes I also read with my ears, and I would recommend the latter. The audiobook has 166 different narrators, including nick offerman and david sedaris, who are wonderful.

Content notes:

child death, grief, suicide, slavery, racism, rape, war, death, murder, sexism, injury description, child molestation mention, spiritual possession, description of embalming

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Rape, Slavery, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Minor: Death, Child abuse, and War