Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

63 reviews

melissakoe20's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Animal cruelty, and Domestic abuse

dellydoos's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

1.0

 Since I DNF’d at 5% I’m not entirely sure if that constitutes that I should leave a review. But since I want to ensure I never attempt to pick this book up ever again, here I go.

This book was: meandering, sexist, racist, boring, out of date and not even funny.

Although it is funny how you can have such a great premise and such shitty execution.

1 star. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape and Misogyny

seph5040's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, and Violence

toffeebox's review

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.75

Painful read -- there were so many times I DNFed it. The book long humor was too drawn out. Every chapter dedicated itself to a character or two - some to the point of being unnecessary. Have Google translate on hand for the Italian whore and dictionary for the vocabulary, this was such a chore and not enjoyable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Minor: Rape

lynxalot26's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Addiction, Sexual assault, Death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Rape

imaginefishes's review

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.5

Was difficult to read at times because of the repetitions between chapters and non-consecutive storylines, but it had its funny and ironic moments which make you consider if the structures which hold us down (even in civil society) exist at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and War

Moderate: Body horror, Alcohol, Grief, Death, Blood, Stalking, and Suicide

Minor: Rape, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Murder, and Violence

chasekj's review

adventurous challenging funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

5.0

My brain is scrambled in the best way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Rape, and Gore

eyesofcrows's review

emotional funny slow-paced

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

5.0

It’s such an odd book and the timeline isn’t consistent and various characters do awful things—I hate one specific character—but it’s absurd in the best of ways. There’s no direct plot other than Yossarian’s deepest need to get out of the cycle of his military duties. There’s millions of subplots between pages and words that I would love to understand myself. I hadn’t even realised the timeline was inconsistent until half way into the book. When I had, I wanted to reread from the beginning but I carried on.

I liked it. There’s times that made me uncomfortable and the occasional thing but it was a fun book to read and witness. Even in the most serious moments, humour interjects itself in such an absurd manner that it’s actually fitting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Rape

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Blood

madzie's review

dark funny sad 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, Violence, Death, War, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Grief

jujubeans's review

dark emotional funny hopeful sad slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

Ok imagine the speed and subject of the plot like this: completely straight and consistent line for about the first 85%, then a quick drop in tone and weirdly enough, style, then a crazy steep climb at the very end.  It is incredibly crass, vulgar, violent, gory, confusing, and humorous in the way “Who’s on first“ would be humorous if the characters were depressed, lonely, terrified, and traumatized to a great extent. 

I don’t know how I feel about it to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, War, Alcohol, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, and Vomit

This is not a book for light reading. It will disgust you and horrify you. The sexual violence was most disturbing to me. I’m gonna say that again for good measure: repeated, horrifying, insane degrees of sexual violence all throughout the book.