Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Overstory by Richard Powers

8 reviews

random19379's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Ableism

pedanther's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Terminal illness, Infertility, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Dementia, Misogyny, Racism, Ableism, and Bullying

Minor: Drug use, Colonisation, Vomit, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Child death

joymargot's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Xenophobia

m4rtt4's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I really loved the first part, and had the rest of the book been like it, I'd probably have given this at least 4.5 stars. Still not bad, all the nature stuff was mind-blowingly incredible, but some of the (POC) characters were pretty stereotypical and I didn't really like how all their stories intertwined in the second half.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Police brutality, Violence, Ableism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Sexual content, Infertility, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

dovewrites's review

Overt racism in the way the characters of color are written. Heavily adheres to stereotyping. The characterization of the Indian character is so poorly written. The Hindu religious aspect is blatantly incorrect which is astounding considering Powers’ obvious capabilities in regards to research. Upsetting that this book is marketed so heavily as a humanist nature story when he treats his POC characters so poorly.  Much of this could’ve been avoided with more research and sensitivity readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Suicide

gigireadswithkiki's review

This book is repulsive. It feels like White People pretentious self-congratulatory prose written for white people who like to believe they're good at philosophy. It's xenophobic, misogynistic, ableist, racist, discriminatory against the non-wealthy, and *overtly* pretentious. I personally plan on ripping the pages out one by one and burning every single one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, Ableism, and Misogyny

sunn_bleach's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring slow-paced

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

3.75

Regardless of your opinion on the writing (is it extraordinarily evocative, or obfuscatingly esoteric?), this book *will* make you think differently both about trees and environmentalism. The opening vignettes are the best part; the characters themselves are archetypes and stereotypes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Racism and Sexual content

harrietjwood's review

informative inspiring reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racism