Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

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

68 reviews

katkelej's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Sexual harassment

kreglow's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

king_henk_the_first's review against another edition

0.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book is a  misogynistic piece of shi-

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Deportation

lifesrichpageant's review against another edition

4.0

informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture

Minor: Sexual assault

its_just_peachy's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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It was a very thought provoking book and very interesting to see how similar things have happened in the real world years after the book was written. The Stasi being very similar with the ‘telescreens’ and spying and though police. It was a very interesting read and not a happy book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Classism

laure_frompariswithbooks's review against another edition

3.25

reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence

rory_john14's review against another edition

3.0

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Colonisation

lightningmc_logyn's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A book so devastating, it can swing the reader back around to hope. I first read this in highschool, nearly a decade ago, and chose to read it again as I’d forgotten most of the books events. As a teenager it struck me, and I’ve displayed my copy on my bookshelves ever since. 

I am glad I re-read it. Orwell’s writing is masterful. The novel is a journey that is folded in on itself, details constantly evolving in light of new context. The reader feels the hope and despair Winston oscillates between. The plot is full of intrigue. It stays firm in its recount of horrid events as well as simple human joys. The parallels drawn to our world are startling. The passionate determination of Winston is palpable. Orwells mind has created a world that is not only real within its pages, but persists in one’s subconscious afterward. 

This book is intelligent and poignant. The themes discussed and analyzed are intentionally parallel to our society. The awareness this book awakened in me as a teen and distilled once again as an adult is something I am grateful for-though the reading experience is quite emotionally turbulent.  The story is dark, startlingly so, and I recommend reading it with care.

The latter third was painful for me to read, and the torture Winston endures and what he becomes is frightening.

The version I read has an afterward that I enjoyed, as it handles the dark subject matter honestly, but leaves the reader with a small branch of hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Rape, Colonisation

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

This is a dark book where violence, war, and oppression are normalized and upheld. The main character endures dark situations and entertains dark thoughts, largely due to the oppressing society he lives in.

brethetech's review against another edition

2.5

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I know it’s a classic for a reason and that it laid the foundation for so much more but please don’t go into this book thinking you’re going to gain much from it like I did. 

At several points it felt like I just had to get through it to keep my promise to myself that I would read at least one classic this year. 

The pacing was nice it skipped large swaths of time and lingered in moments but it always felt right.

But I was never attached to the main character, or any character at all, I didn’t learn anything, and I wasn’t entertained for more then a brief 50 or so pages where I wanted to know what would happen next.

If you want to read this for antiauthoritarianism, or because it’s a dystopia there are better picks nowadays that are both going to be more interesting and dive deeper into the topic. And in fact that is my main gripe with this that the facts that it presents are not novel to me, and it just keeps hammering them in instead of going deeper. I know they were novel at the time and even perhaps for a while after, or to a specific audience where this is a new topic but not to me, or probably anybody interested in reading books on this topic today.

Or maybe I’m just stupid and am missing something idk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicide, War, Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit

ash_havent's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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Graphic descriptions of fantasies about rape are not for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment