Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

32 reviews

therowdypi's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Infidelity, Infertility, Police brutality, Sexual content, Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, Rape, War, and Violence

ran_sophia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The book reads me well and I was able to orient in the story, which surprised me quite a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexism, Miscarriage, War, Self harm, and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Child death

shreyasingh's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Incest, Child death, Violence, Terminal illness, Rape, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Infidelity, and Gun violence

Minor: Miscarriage, War, Police brutality, Pedophilia, and Cursing

olivefoil's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, 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: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, 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, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

saltycoffee's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Police brutality, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, and Child death

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, Blood, Genocide, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

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

Minor: Confinement, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging informative 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Dementia, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Dementia, Fatphobia, and Miscarriage

Minor: Rape

roniboi's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

I don't know if this book was written to make whole sense. I like to think it wasn't. There are definitely things to be understood and others to let go of. It's just so o

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Child death, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Death, and Police brutality

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, and Confinement

Minor: Suicide and Self harm