Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

It by Stephen King

122 reviews

skylerhill's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Stephen King was almost certainly gifted the uncanny ability to write horrendously shitty people. Like oh my god. 

Also, Stephen. Steve. Why on God’s green earth did you think it necessary to add the kids’ sex scene??? Personally feel as though you just, like, shouldn’t have done that and that it was in no way integral and you could’ve come up with something different but idk.

Anyway, this book is a lot: it’s thick, it’s outdated, it’s disgusting, it’s mentally challenging… but it’s also well-done classic horror, and maybe the most unsettling book I’ve ever read. I don’t think this is as good as The Shining (read the book, the movie’s mid), and there are plenty of modern horror pieces I’d recommend before this, but it’s still very effective at unsettling, for one reason or another. 8.25/10.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

alicialikekeys's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

listen i genuinely love this book, but you can clearly tell it was written by a man in the 80s on a cocaine binge. it also did not have to be this long jfc. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

voicenextdoor's review against another edition

dark medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Infertility, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Cultural appropriation

lillyklymiuk's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

primaproulla's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

miw4everaly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

0.25

I absolutely hated this book. It had been on my "to read" list for years and I thought I would listen to it before Halloween. I cannot tell you how much I hate this book without giving things away, but I'll try. The book was clearly written just to shock people. There are aggressive sexual interactions, assaults, racial slurs that made me (a half-black woman) extremely uncomfortable and they were very unnecessary, and the characters were not likeable (except for Ben). I truly struggled to get through this book and, if it wouldn't make me feel like a failure for giving up, I would've stopped reading after the first few chapters. This is one of those rare moments where I would tell people to just watch the movies. The book will make you wish you never started to read it. I don't believe in cancel culture, but I'm shocked this book wasn't canceled during all that craziness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

tessvosper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Dementia, Grief, and Alcohol

fjordpingvin's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Antisemitism, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Cancer and Infertility

ravynlily's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

merandferny's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, and Injury/Injury detail