Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Terror by Dan Simmons

23 reviews

chungledown_bim's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Watched the miniseries, gushed about it to a work colleague who said to try the book because it was even better. I didn't believe them but I'm glad I picked The Terror up anyway- what a book! The unstoppable force of colonial/capitalistic hubris vs the immovable object of the primordial inevitability of nature. 

Feel like the author did well to describe the racism, homophobia, classism, toxic masculinity, sexism, & general fuckery of the time without participating in it. Usually you'd see the descriptor 'historical' & assume this means whoever wrote it is excited to drop the N word. Not so much here but all these concepts are as present as the arctic cold.

...I say that but Silence does seem to

'<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/breasted-boobily">'breast boobily'</a> at times & end up as a trophy

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It's long, but I was engaged the entire time, despite this not at all being the sort of thing I'm into. I really enjoyed falling into a rabbit hole by searching up the Franklin expedition & Inuit mythology afterward.

The ending

was a little disappointing. I mean, I loved reading about the process of Crozier surrendering but I wanted something to chew his face off. Get bent, British Empire, you don't belong there

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Xenophobia, Murder, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Suicide, Violence, Misogyny, and Classism

anjalirenee's review against another edition

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

4.0

slow paced is an understatement please heed my warning. the pace picks up mmmmm around page 350 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). pretty good although TONS of unnecessary detail about the minutae of ice formations, ship layouts, and wayfinding. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Racism, Suicide, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Animal death

Moderate: Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia and Pregnancy

marina_michelle's review against another edition

The descriptions of every woman’s breasts and pubic hair was already a red flag. Platypus Pond was just too much…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Confinement, Racism, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Death, Cannibalism, Misogyny, Colonisation, Body horror, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Blood, and Alcohol

bread_rs's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racism, Xenophobia, Misogyny, and Cannibalism

keenanmaree's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Body horror, Murder, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Medical content, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

cayleighgb's review against another edition

2.5

This is a book I’m genuinely conflicted about. On one hand, the overall story and horror aspects were SO good that I couldn’t put the book down. On the other hand, the weird male author fetishy content regarding the female and Inuit characters made me so angry I almost quit reading several times. This is a perfect example of why I don’t read books written by men and why I hate historical fiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

bookjunkie1975's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Misogyny

breilly13's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Mental illness

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

2.5

There are some great scares here, and some really well done character moments. Overall though, this book is too long (so many things are repeated unnecessarily), every woman is written really badly (but hey, at least

the author makes it clear that Big Tits survived!

) and the ending was terrible. I don't regret reading it but it's hard to recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Colonisation, Torture, Gore, Toxic relationship, Classism, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment, Excrement, Incest, Pregnancy, and Vomit

coelagirl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Really really excellent book- especially the audiobook version, the prefromace Tom Sellwood gives is incredible. I'm not normally a horror enjoyer but the  multiple perspectives and historical subject matter got me. There were both scenes of incredible tension (carnivale, Blanky's escape, Franklin's  death, etc.) And knawwing knowledge that everyone would die and no matter how good any plan Crozier made was.   Very emotional. Would have been 5 stars if not for the ending- just stop reading at Hickey's final chapter; you won't get all the answers but we don't have all the answers for the real life Franklin expedition either! It's fine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Murder, Violence, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Death, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, and Racial slurs

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

The Real Life Franklin Expedition fictionalized in this book was Actually lost during its voyage in the late 1840s. This book contains the period typical misogyny and racism you might expect from victorian colonialism, as well as a book from 2007, plus men doing horrible things to survive in an inhospitable landscape they are not prepared for while being hunted by a creature behind imagination. Things get as bad you can possibly expect them to get.