Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville

18 reviews

arrr's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Long winded prose. Wish I'd read the start and skipped to the end. Like Jules Verne in the endless categorization and description. Needless description of violence to the animals. Needless racial judgments. No women. A product of its time. I didn't find anything redeeming to make the effort of slogging through worthwhile. I suppose the depiction of physical disability was decent. And there's a lot of neat info about boats and whaling. Historical context. Idk. Some might enjoy, but not me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

hilllel's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol

xthankyouplantbasedgodx's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail

ialysa's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark funny informative sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Unbelievably educated and witty narrator perfectly combines comedy and exploration with a heartbreaking drama. The book explores the strenuous lives of the sailors of a whaling ship and the inner challenges of human nature. 
A story of obsession, doubt, trauma, friendship, partnership of extremely diverse individuals that are all stuck in each other's company and a tragic reality of the whaling industry.

Everyone will find something to like in this book, but only a few will love this book in its entirety.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore

Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Classism

barnswallow8's review

4.0

adventurous challenging dark funny informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Cannibalism

harley_n66's review

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Violence

byejohn's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“…to the last gasp of my earthquake life…”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Violence

kjc's review

4.5

adventurous funny informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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So much funnier than I expected. So many wonderful sentences, and so many shifting moods and modes where he was either just fucking around w writing styles or really indulging his obsession w whales and whaling. It took me a long time to get bogged down because I loved the informative whale content, too, but did eventually find myself yelling at Melville to get on with it. And then he did in an extremely satisfying way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Racism, Violence, Colonisation

tkivinen's review

1.5

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book made me realize that I don't care about whaling the slightest bit.

It is drawn out, mostly very boring, and jumps from genre to genre. The language is so archaic it desperately needs modernization.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Gore

seapotatohowisitalrtaken's review

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder

Minor: Alcohol