Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Shining by Stephen King

34 reviews

mo_moana_k's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The amount of racial slurs in this book are incredible,  at some points there's one on every page. It's annoying and completely unnecessary.  A white man has no business using the n word that many times.  It's not even to make the reader dislike the character that says them, they're said by the protagonists too. Other than that the book was good but that really got under my skin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, and Vomit

ivana's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

mariahlindz's review against another edition

1.0

Stephen King's masterpiece...if he didn't feel it was necessary to use racist slurs every five seconds that in no way enriched the plot. If he can fully pull Rage out of print, he should also be willing to yank the harmful language from his books. It's would be so easy to express the violence and hatred of the hotel without using anti-black slurs. Disappointed but not surprised. 

And someone please give this man a course in how to write women. I'm so tired. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual content, and Homophobia

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Racism, and Drug use

Minor: Grief