Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

31 reviews

scoads's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

A book with more than a few problems and an interesting yet problematic take on autistic stereotypes in young boys, but a very compelling and suspenseful story told from an interesting perspective, very close to my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Ableism, Child abuse, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Murder

camoo3032's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Excrement, Violence, Blood, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Dementia, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Medical content, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Cursing, Ableism, Cancer, Murder, Physical abuse, and Suicide

lillelow's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Read this when I was younger and for some reason something about it stuck in my head, so I decided to read it again as an adult. Apparently I’d forgotten most of the plot because I didn’t remember the major plot twist, but other than that, the book didn’t stand out to me as much this time around.

If you have no experience with autism and would like an insight into what that might look like (which I think everyone should) this will probably be a very eye-opening book and I’d absolutely recommend it. But if you’re already familiar with autism, I guess it doesn’t make that much of an impact - hence why I don’t find it as mind-blowing to read now as when I was younger and probably didn’t know as much. The story in itself is actually quite tragic and other than the plot twist, it’s all rather predictable - so the score ends up somewhere in the middle for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Vomit, Ableism, Confinement, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Cursing, Violence, and Toxic relationship

reddeddy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, Excrement, Abandonment, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Ableism

Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, Drug use, Xenophobia, Murder, Confinement, Grief, Religious bigotry, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Dementia, Self harm, and Police brutality

lasivaranasi's review

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

Hauptcharakter: sehr süß und schön, dass die Thematik um Christopher in einem Buch aufgegriffen und so lebensnah dargestellt wurde
Geschichte in sich: alle anderen Charaktere konnte ich zwar in ihren Handlungen nachvollziehen, sie haben mich aber sauer gemacht und ich konnte sie schlicht weg nicht leiden 
Und alles in allem: 
fand ich hatte das Buch leider seine Längen weshalb ich lange gebraucht hab, um durch das Buch zu kommen. 
Da die Idee hinter dem Buch jedoch sehr gelungen ist, kann und möchte ich es nicht schlecht bewerten :) 

Das Buch ist super für alle Menschen, ich denke aber besonders für jüngere - alle, die etwas leichtverständliches lesen wollen und gleichzeitig sich  mit dem Thema Autismus (zum ersten Mal) befassen und einen Einblick in die Gedanken eines Betroffenen bekommen können. Sie bekommen dafür ein Buch, in dem sie mit dem Hauptcharakter mitfühlen und die schönen aber auch nervenaufreibenden Seiten dieser psychischen Störung kennenlernen dürfen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

Die Warnungen, die ich angegeben habe sind alle im Buch enthalten, jedoch durch den Schreibstil sehr milde gehalten, weshalb ich die meisten Dinge gut aushalten konnte, auch wenn ich ein persönliches Thema mit ihnen hatte. Dies Variiert natürlich danach, wie starke Triggerpunkte diese Themen für dich sind! Das Thema vor dem ich am meisten warnen würde sind:

Herzerkrankungen, Tod/Mord, Familienstreitigkeiten und Gewalt (an Kindern)

balfies's review

adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

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

4.5

Last read this in 2015 - god it's good. The depth of it is so impressive, it's such a tight, well-paced read with exceptional characterisation. Wanted to reread something kind of familiar but also tick off a book from the Year 12 syllabus to refamiliarise myself before I'm in classrooms again next year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Child abuse, Animal death, and Ableism

snrkville's review

fast-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

1.0

A terrible portrayal of autism by an author who has admitted to doing next to no research.
A story about an abused child acting out his trauma and receiving no real sympathy or protection from anyone, ultimately being forced to rely on his abusers for support after they face no consequences whatsoever for heinous and illegal acts of child abuse. And worst of all they are portrayed sympathetically. It’s no wonder that toxic organizations like Autism Speaks endorse it - it reflects the self-pitying attitude of parents who cannot accept their children’s differences because they’re too busy crying over the perfect family they imagine they’d have with a neurotypical child instead of accepting them as they are and providing a safe and loving environment. I don’t think the author even thought that deeply about the story he was writing, to be honest. Yet another stereotypical story about a math genius egotistical autistic kid who feels nothing for anyone, which is completely unrooted in the reality of autistic experience. Not to mention the sadly lacking mystery that the title advertised.
I am sad to learn that middle schoolers are required to read it instead of a story that engages neurodiversity with compassion and knowledge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Ableism

Moderate: Animal death

the_procrastinatorinator's review

dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

Not sure if the autism representation in this is very good, but it was a quick read 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Animal death

Minor: Car accident and Cursing

mermaidstears's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

it was nice to read a book with an autistic main character and attempting to understand how they work and perceive the world. It was a good book with interesting views. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Excrement, Animal death, Death of parent, Murder, Vomit, and Violence

chrisljm's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.0

not a mystery, just mostly about how shitty christopher’s parents are 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Infidelity, Excrement, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Animal death

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Ableism, Death, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, Vomit, and Abandonment