Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

37 reviews

cliterarystudies's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, and Racial slurs

edenprose's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

marlasmirkingrevenge's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Death, and Racism

returningb00kworm's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• 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

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Genocide, Racial slurs, and Racism

stephanie19's review against another edition

reflective relaxing 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

maess's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Self harm, Sexism, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Deportation, Genocide, Misogyny, Pregnancy, War, Racial slurs, Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Plath's use of imagery is second to none. Rich, textured, deeply sad poems that leap off the page and go for the throat.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Racial slurs, Death, and War

vera_nikolajevna's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Racial slurs and Antisemitism

fieldofhats's review against another edition

DNF at page 35. I’m not a fan of nonsense poems. I get that these poems have a meaning (or, I think most of them do?), but I’m not going to dissect it and try to discern that meaning. These poems, taken at face-value, don’t make much sense. Some of the evoke emotion, but that emotion is always overshadowed by confusion. There was also a heavy racial slur casually dropped in during the namesake poem of this book… That’s not great. She wrote this late 1962 to early 1963, one might think she’d know better? Anyway, I can’t recommend this book in good conscious. If you like nonsense poetry you’ll probably love it, but otherwise just don’t bother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

honeystuck's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

this book is definitely ‘disturb the comfortable, comfort the disturbed’ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racial slurs and Gore