Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

6 reviews

jesshaleth's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.25

If he'd managed to rein in the pedophilia a little then it would have just been annoyingly smug rather than leaving a gross taste in my mouth a week later.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

marmar0326's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and War

Moderate: Misogyny and Racism

Minor: Murder and Rape

touchegiantsquid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

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

2.0

A short story wrapped around a bunch of interesting ideas, but not great as a novel. Mainly, the beginning is obnoxious because it depends on the writer being able to write funny jokes. The sense of humor is terrible. This aged terribly.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Racism, Sexism, and Cultural appropriation

How do I tag the idea of makeup that makes you appear to change race? How do I tag rape jokes?

shieldbearer's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

2.0

There's a lot of great concepts at play here, but the execution of them story wise is questionable, especially with the way the author tends to use this book as an author tract- something that isn't always smoothly executed in story. Which while in some ways this book was ahead of its time, in others it is exactly a product of the time it was written, namely with the racism and misogyny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Ableism, Death, Infertility, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Racism, and War

If you're reading this book just for the robot,

they kill the robot so don't bother

tylawrencium's review

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Sexism

It's, uh...definitely a sci-fi book written by a white guy libertarian in 1965. Expect unnecessary sexism, plenty of weird asides about women and their appearances, and racial descriptions that probably felt progressive in the 60s and now just seem like vaguely positive steroetypes? None of it (to me) is so blinding as to make the book unreadable, but it's good to know going in.

greenteadragon's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

3.0

Unfortunately, I found that it uses some sexist and racist tropes. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mass/school shootings, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use, Grief, Infertility, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, and Torture