Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

33 reviews

auggiet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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

4.0

beautiful !! some parts were slower than others depending on your preference of story telling and genre, but as a whole this book far exceeded my expectations after seeing some not-so-great reviews. the commentary on cyclicality and self-destruction on historical scales and in individual instances feels like something ive been trying to put into words myself for a while now. definitely a book that ill be thinking about for a long time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Drug use, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Murder, Death, Vomit, Gore, Addiction, Classism, Xenophobia, War, Drug abuse, Racism, Car accident, Cursing, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Dementia, Grief, and Gun violence

katepowellshine's review against another edition

3.5

The book is clearly an impressive literary accomplishment, with the various voices and eras woven together, but it's far too cynical for my tastes. There's enough of that in the real world. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Slavery, Colonisation, Racism, Death, Genocide, Murder, War, and Violence

robin_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

I had hope that the book would fill in the gaps the movie left but unfortunately I have more questions than answers now. 
I will say, that the way the Author can write so many different POVs and story tellning paces is impressive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Classism, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Vomit, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-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

3.5

I appreciate this book for the skill of the author, and the super original and genuinely well executed idea. HOWEVER, this book took me way too long to read like omfg it was a SLOG to get through, especially because the voice/style of the writing changes with every single part. Really smart, super cool, but maybe just not one that I would reread tbh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Minor: Rape

frogggirl2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

This reads like a series of loosely connected short stories and, like any short story collection, some pieces are better than others.   It feels quite disjointed at first but as you go along the connections become more and more apparent.

The writing is great.  There's a lot of substance here, but, for me there's just too much content.  This point has been made more clearly in other works.  The waters here just get too muddied - there's just too many plots to effectively convey the thesis.

**Also, a lot of racism, indicative of the period and disavowed by the book, but unpleasant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Addiction, Self harm, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Suicide, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Slavery

chloeprowse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Violence and Suicide

marro98's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Homophobia, Genocide, Child death, Animal death, Rape, Suicide, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, War, Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, and Colonisation

freedryk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Racism

Moderate: Slavery, Genocide, Violence, Drug use, Suicide, Mental illness, Gun violence, Murder, and Misogyny

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Death, Colonisation, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cannibalism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Car accident, Murder, and Racial slurs

oaxara's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, and Racism

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Rape and Cannibalism