Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Todesmarsch. by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

73 reviews

artificialducc's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Abandonment

Minor: Incest

shannonredwine8's review against another edition

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Too brutal & gory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

toniw315's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit

vadip's review against another edition

3.5

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, Excrement

kristalall's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I loved this book, but I really with it had an epilogue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement

taviarz's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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I have a love/hate relationship with Stephen King books. He can make walking entertaining but he also writes the same types of characters in every book I’ve read of his.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs

eliz_m_rhodes's review against another edition

3.75

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault

meraru's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I love playing battle royales so i found the main plot appealing, the random sexualization of characters, most of them minors made it kinda hard to enjoy at times though. and the ending was... um...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia

Minor: Animal death, Vomit

King sure is comfortable sexualizing his minor characters.

ponsopilled's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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there are three things teenage boys find scary: death, religion, and bisexuality
written by a struggling transmasc

i see a lot of people saying the book is way too long, i digress. it is way too short for what its trying to achieve. too many plotholes, like why do they want to die so bad? why does abraham keep cringing at the mentions of god? but i guess none of that matters bc garraty and mcvries stole the show. i reread the book because i heard there was a movie in the works (they say that every year, hopefully this time its legit and hopefully they wont all be white boys amen)

to be honest, when i read this the first time as a teenage boy, i thought “wow so cute!” oh boy was i wrong. somehow maturing made this book way way way way more sad and full of agony. i cant stop crying at baker’s death, why did he have to die? fuck ray garraty, save my boy art baker

also shoutout to the sorta minor, sorta main characters! if nobody got me i know scramm, abraham, and parker got me!

“No!” Garraty screamed again. “Me! Me! Shoot me!” But instead, they gave him his third warning. McVries opened his eyes and smiled again. The next instant, he was gone.”
my genuine reaction: stephen king you will cough in three days

pros:
- characters r kinda cool
- abraham’s essay

cons:
- gary barkovitch

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Racial slurs

it is about teenage boys struggling through life and death, if that doesnt tell you enough about what to expect, i dont know what more to say

ginbat's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense

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Easy to read but I wasn't super into the ending, and a lot of things were repetitive. Super slow then all too fast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Murder

Minor: Bullying, Gore, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit

teenagers walk until they die