Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

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

42 reviews

novelyon's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Racial slurs, Blood, and Slavery

Minor: Cannibalism

emilymhb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Cannibalism and Racial slurs

elizajstocks's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Colonisation

ambdocksey22's review against another edition

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

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

doomluz's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Sexism and Misogyny

anouverlinden_'s review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

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, Colonisation, and Cannibalism

derblauewolf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Racism, and Violence

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, and Cannibalism

kamryn_grace_'s review against another edition

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

3.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism and Slavery

b_caligari's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Grief

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