Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

4 reviews

hollywatson's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Rape, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Infidelity, Sexism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Torture

mairu's review

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Classism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death and Excrement

emmacb's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed this book at the start, but sort of lost it as I continued to read. 
It feels like the sort of book where the author is reeeeeally trying to say something and either it's going over my head or i just straight up disagree. 

Or both. 

The book feels like a comment on humanity in a similar way to lord of the flies where it's not so much a comment on actual human behaviour as the author's cynical idea of human behaviour that maybe says more about them than it does about humans! Also I had some thoughts on the depiction of women - it wasn't great. OK bad... to a degree that had me wondering if this was all a meta-commentary on people's depiction of humans in literature because surely noone thinks that's actually how women (or men tbh) would behave in the scenarios described in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Incest, Sexual violence, Rape, Homophobia, Confinement, and Death

slipp99's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Lord of the flies meets modern day society

Listened to this read by Tom Hiddleston. Great experience but not sure if I absorbed the book very well bc I kept getting lost in his voice and I’m not good at auditory learning lol. Seemed really good and well written but take my review w a biased grain of salt. It twas dark tho 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Minor: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Abandonment