Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Ett hål om dagen by Louis Sachar

44 reviews

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Grief, Abandonment

Minor: Death, Vomit

carolined314's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A tall tale about tall tales, in a juvenile detention facility, with a real-life curse, a weird rock formation, buried treasure, and all kinds of other things. Some fatphobia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Bullying, Fatphobia

Minor: Abandonment

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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What a strange, unique, occasionally horrifying book! The story is so bizarre but played so normally that you just accept that this is part of our everyday world. It gets very dark on occasion (brilliantly so; the Warden is such an insidious presence), but there's genuine warmth and great humour.

I was so invested in the history of Camp Green Lake and I loved all the little revelatory moments where you can see connections forming between the past and present. So many times I would get to a sentence that made me stop and go "oh, I get it now", and every time it made me love it a bit more. It's a fantastic little story, and I'll definitely be checking out the film and Sachar's other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement

mr_cain's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read this in fifth grade and it's underrated. Top 10 novels that make your kids hate prisons but LOVE romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Grief

nota_candycaine's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

lucy12345's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious fast-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Fatphobia, Gun violence

adoto's review against another edition

3.5

funny reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death

morganperks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Violence, Murder

Minor: Death, Fatphobia, Blood

lily_k8y's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny inspiring 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

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I really enjoyed this book, all the way to the ending. I've been getting used to incomplete or unsatisfactory endings but this one left me satisfied when I turned the last page. Don't know if I would have appreciated the book as a child though with it's darker humour. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Murder

Minor: Animal death

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Super entertaining and just absolutely delightful. I had so much fun reading this book and it definitely will be one I'll be revisiting!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Violence

Minor: Animal death, Death, Fatphobia