Reviews tagging 'Gore'

1984 by Umberto Eco, Miguel Temprano García, George Orwell, George Orwell

75 reviews

dorian_winter's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Minor: Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, War

taihao's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, War

meg2009's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, War

beingjoeyful's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Winston Smith, a party worker living in Oceania (a totalitarian regime that comprises of the British isles and the US) begins questioning the ideologies of the government. The book is his struggles with concepts of socialism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, loss of agency and loss of free will. It's slow, brutal and painful to read when we juxtapose that this is slowly the world we are becoming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

hazzardfreak02's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I thought about rating this a 2, but Andrew Garfield's voice acting was so impressive I gave it a 3 instead. This was a chilling audio drama. The ending was so vivid, it's seared into my mind. It was a bit hard to follow though, I have a feeling they left some things out that were in the book that would have made the story more coherent. Hearing this was much harder than just reading it, so be prepared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence

Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

It was hard to listen to the last half hour or so. I recommend against it if you have a good imagination and you're highly empathetic.

smellofbooks2007's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, War, Classism

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

thegreatnoodles's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Ten years ago for school we studied the general themes of this book and had a brief video summary of its events, ten years later and the themes of Whose Reality still remain important today. In a world of growing misinformation, growing authoritarianism, growing censorship and mass propaganda the threats of the dystopian future of 1984 become ever closer. Especially if one looks the direction of America.

I have seen people argue this book is misogynistic, however I feel the protagonist (and the world within) is misogynistic but not necessarily the author. The vast, vast majority of themes and events in this book are meant to be seen as bad, and our protagonist is equally a terrible person (who just so happens to be against the tyrannical government). He has fantasies of murdering not just women, but men too. The book isn’t promoting anti-women rhetoric no more than it is promoting anti-children rhetoric (with the Spies and blatant Hitler-Youth inspired groups)

Overall an unsettling and worthwhile read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Homophobia, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury

kaitlynfriedman's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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honestly? the reason why i stayed to listen to this was because it was free on audible plus. and i’m so glad i listened to this plus plus(if yk, yk).ALSO DO NOT RECOMMEND LISTENING TO WHILE HIGH. its so scary. anyway, the only 2 reasons i put this off FOR 3 YEARS. was 1. bc its a classics are scary and 2. bc it reflects on todays society specifically bc of (cough, cough) TRUMP, and oh boy does it fight now…😭😭😭. Anyway, i LOVED the performances and stayed for that. When it ended i was feeling all 5 stages of grief. lost 1/2 a star for the misogyny. (★★★★1/2)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Slavery

hatsterx's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexual content

Minor: Rape, Vomit, War