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Reviews tagging 'Cursing'
L'attrape-coeurs by Jerome David Salinger by J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger
158 reviews
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Blood
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Violence
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Grief
Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts
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:
No
What is the point if this book? I hate the writing style, I don’t see any plot, there’s no emotion being drawn anywhere in the story...I get the swearing in 1951 would have been shocking but that’s not good reason for a book to be a classic. Oh and it’s sexist, racist, and homophobic.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Minor: Sexual assault
reflective
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really need to think on this a bit more. I hated reading this book with a passion, but after a while, I realised I needed to look at it from another angle too. So I will do that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, Transphobia, Grief
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief
Minor: Cancer, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I hate this kid, and I hate even more that I relate to his anger. I could choke him, but he lives in the back of my head. What an absolutely mean little pest he and I are. And we're both too old for this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abandonment
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Honestly, if it weren't for the absolute vulgarity of the language most of these triggers would be bearable. It's 200 pages of intense non-stop cursing. I read it in 2014 and it still haunts me.
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I, like many, had to read this book for an English Literature class in high school and I hated every second of it. I had so much trouble understanding anything the narration was trying to convey because Holden curses practically every other word to the point where expletives may have been overused intentionally but holy moly was it such an unnecessary struggle. Trying to separate the language from the action in my head to answer simple questions about the chapters on the reading quizzes was impossible, so I have a grudge against this horrible book for being indecipherable.
My fondness for unreliable narrators does not extend to Holden, unfortunately. I can analyze this book until I'm blue in the face and my fingers fall off, but it won't make me like this book or care about any of its characters any more. The only piece of information I thought was interesting was how Holden wears a hunting hat that covers his ears to symbolically represent how he has stopped listening and shut himself off from society. He's a struggling teen who desperately needs some decent therapy to help him sort his brain out and get his life together in a world that's dark and messy and often unforgiving. But he's also a hypocrite, the biggest phony of the whole circus, a liar - to himself, to the readers, and to everyone around him - so the fact that I couldn't tell for sure in the book if he really intended to go to an appointment or if it was just another thing he said for the sake of saying it frustrated me to no end.
What it really comes down to is my dislike for the particular writing style executed here and the irredeemably unlikeable narrator, which by default makes everyone else in his story unlikeable too because we're only seeing them through his jaded perception even though I genuinely can't remember finding anything wrong with most of them. Perhaps if I read this book again now, I might find something else to walk away from it with, but I doubt I can ever make myself touch it again.
My fondness for unreliable narrators does not extend to Holden, unfortunately. I can analyze this book until I'm blue in the face and my fingers fall off, but it won't make me like this book or care about any of its characters any more. The only piece of information I thought was interesting was how Holden wears a hunting hat that covers his ears to symbolically represent how he has stopped listening and shut himself off from society. He's a struggling teen who desperately needs some decent therapy to help him sort his brain out and get his life together in a world that's dark and messy and often unforgiving. But he's also a hypocrite, the biggest phony of the whole circus, a liar - to himself, to the readers, and to everyone around him - so the fact that I couldn't tell for sure in the book if he really intended to go to an appointment or if it was just another thing he said for the sake of saying it frustrated me to no end.
What it really comes down to is my dislike for the particular writing style executed here and the irredeemably unlikeable narrator, which by default makes everyone else in his story unlikeable too because we're only seeing them through his jaded perception even though I genuinely can't remember finding anything wrong with most of them. Perhaps if I read this book again now, I might find something else to walk away from it with, but I doubt I can ever make myself touch it again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness