Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Heart of Darkness: And Selections from the Congo Diary by Joseph Conrad

108 reviews

luis0n7i's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Body horror, Grief, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Colonisation, Classism, Racial slurs, and War

Minor: Cannibalism

glittery_witch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, and Mental illness

edesia_guest's review against another edition

dark fast-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

1.0

Important to read to understand ideas perpetuated at the time but it’s still a horrible book which holds bias and prejudice. you need to be aware of the author and context but if sensitive just avoid. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Slavery, Body horror, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Cannibalism

93explorer's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

 Mixed thoughts about this book, but leaning towards the negative. This book and its concepts were just really hard to read, especially from the point of view of the colonizer rather than the people being colonized. I think the general detachment and apathy from Marlow and the narrator made this book 10x worse in terms of the ideas, violence, and racism, and this made it really hard for me to want to read and analyze it for class. The only redeeming thing about this book was Conrad’s writing in terms of imagery and description, as it does really transport the reader into the narrative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Violence, Death, Gore, Racism, Racial slurs, War, and Cannibalism

rory_john14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Grief, Colonisation, Death, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Gore, War, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Classism, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Genocide, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Religious bigotry

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

An absolute masterpiece - made me love apocalypse now even more 5 ⭐️ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

windspice's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Racism, Racial slurs, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism

chubbypug21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Colonisation

thesawyerbean's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.0

Huh? I am so confused about what I just read. That has to be some of the most verbose and constipated writing I have ever read. I could barely understand what the point of the book was. If it wasn’t so short, I would’ve DNFed it very fast.

I can give it credit for its historical importance, as one of the first writings by a white author to bring attention to the deplorable horrors, genocide and violence of colonialism in Africa. However, this doesn’t mean it was good. In fact, I would hazard to say it was more dehumanising to the  people it was attempting to uplift. What was even more perplexing was that the very man who had committed atrocities, that the whole plot line was apparently centred around, was then heralded as some kind of god, hero or virtuous man after his death, instead of the despot he was.

I don’t know, maybe I was simply not paying enough attention because I was severely bored, but I do not get it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Body horror, and Murder

purpleberryblue's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Minor: Cannibalism