Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Shining by Stephen King

32 reviews

milohno's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Violence, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Mental illness

Minor: Death, Homophobia, Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, Confinement, Fatphobia, Blood, and Cursing

luinthezu's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

rosesofthespring's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Ableism, Child death, Drug abuse, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Sexual content, Vomit, and Homophobia

As usual, Stephen King is very weird about stuttering, so watch out for that. No one (as far as I can tell) is actually psychotic, but the content heavily revolves around hallucinations and questioning reality.

emisharples's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia

thelightabyss's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia and Pedophilia

grvhppr's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.0

King is great at building characters from scratch, and he's no less masterful here. I simply found the story to be extremely slow at the beginning, which made it a struggle to get to the latter half of the book for me. My favorite parts are when Jack

battles his alcoholism.

Those felt the most real to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child abuse

Moderate: Cursing and Racial slurs

Minor: Murder, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Racism, and Violence

supikarolcia1's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

ivana's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

mariahlindz's review against another edition

1.0

Stephen King's masterpiece...if he didn't feel it was necessary to use racist slurs every five seconds that in no way enriched the plot. If he can fully pull Rage out of print, he should also be willing to yank the harmful language from his books. It's would be so easy to express the violence and hatred of the hotel without using anti-black slurs. Disappointed but not surprised. 

And someone please give this man a course in how to write women. I'm so tired. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual content, and Homophobia

readswitherin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

one brief page tries to explain how a young boy being abused in their childhood by an adult man would cause that individual to later become a serial killer, which is so fucked up.