Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

59 reviews

ambdocksey22's review against another edition

1.0

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

doomluz's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Colonisation

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism

anou_reads_books's review against another edition

1.0

dark tense slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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This book is just plain racism. It is not good. 

I get that this book is interesting to study and analyse (I had too read this for uni class too) but that does not make this book more interesting. 
It is written in a very weird way, I had te reread sentences and paragraphs to understand what was really said but I think I missed 90% of the story. I read somewhere the author wanted to portray the difficulty of going through the jungle in his writing and I can say he succeeded in that. 

Would absolutely not recommend this book, spare yourself, love yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Cannibalism, Colonisation

derblauewolf's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Blood

Minor: Cannibalism

amomentofmusic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Cannibalism, Colonisation

kamryn_grace_'s review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark slow-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

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This book is amazing, but it is not very accessible considering how dense it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Cannibalism

b_caligari's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation

Moderate: Gun violence, Terminal illness, Grief

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

Loveable characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Cannibalism

nerdyllamas's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I had to read this for my English class and did not enjoy it. The entire books is Conrad thinking he is better than the other Europeans for believing that colonialism is wrong while being still painting racist caricatures of the native people. It's also ridiculously slow.

Another angering thing is he tells the story as a frame story, and then nothing happens to the people on the boat that the narrator is telling the story to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Death, Cannibalism