Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Shining by Stephen King

66 reviews

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

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Grief

mariahsnerdynotes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, and Violence

leanne's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

a_robin_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Information:

• Library ebook
• October readathon 
• Reading my first ever horror reading vlog

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Review:

This was my first ever horror novel and I loved it. Everything about this was great, from the characters to the writing the the spookyness. It was a right balance between slow pace and fast pace. Just really loved this.
Didn't give it the full 5 stars, because there were minor things that bothered me.

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Review previously placed on my blog:

I'm currently reading The shining by Stephen King. I'm reading this for the October readathon. 

I'm actually loving this so far. I didn't expect that. The writing, and translation; reading it in Dutch, are very good. The story itself is very interesting. So far it has been creepy, but not scary yet, so am excited about that part. But so far it's really good and it might even be a 5 star read.

It became pretty scary, but not too much; didn't have nightmares, which is good. There were a couple of small things that bothered me a little bit, so therefore not a full 5 stars, but a 4,5 stars. Check out my vlog for indepth thoughts: Reading my first ever horror book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Racism

evelynsbookcorner's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book takes a while to get through, but that's nothing new if you have read Stephen King before. This is very different than the movie, and it's gruesome and terrible, but you want to keep reading it. Since it was written in the 70's there are racial slurs used by the evil in this book that could definitely be a turnoff for readers. However the good characters are truly good people and like other SK books that is what gets you: you relate to them enough to feel like it could be use in those shoes. Worth the read, but a dense, slow book so I likely won't read it a second time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism and Suicidal thoughts