Reviews tagging 'Racism'

El retrato de Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

113 reviews

quinn24's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Alcohol, and Gun violence

whykay's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Blood, Racism, Death, and Sexism

evieolive's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

Ooh this one had some good quotes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Murder

Moderate: Drug use and Suicide

Minor: Violence, Infidelity, Blood, Sexism, and Racism

shadereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Antisemitism, Death, Suicide, Sexism, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Drug use and Infidelity

laughingrecord's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

kimberlymarrinan's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-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

3.0

Better than I thought it would be.

Ending was nice, felt full circle.

However this book was riddled with blatant antisemitism, racism, and sexism. The only thing this book isn’t is homophobic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Racism, and Antisemitism

michaelion's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

1.25

Yawn. Boring story with nonsensical characters and ridiculous plot. If you can even call it a plot. I've read enough philosophy to know I don't like this brand of uppity white people, so call me biased, but there's nothing there. There's no there there. It's empty and hollow and- Honestly makes sense why this would be considered classic literature. There's just no flavor. A pinchings of elements in the story were almost kinda cool, but overall it was a tough read even without the time period-language barrier. (I don't know what else to call it.)

And this book is not queer at all! Whoever tagged it as such lied!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic friendship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Antisemitism, Violence, Gaslighting, Murder, and Racism

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

ageckocalledachilles's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

A relatively well written book full of terrible people doing terrible things. Oh and just a warning, Wilde is awful at writing women, and uses a lot of racist and antisemitic language

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, Murder, Racial slurs, and Suicide

hyliansee's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, and Antisemitism

caracaracara's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, and Racial slurs