Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

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

375 reviews

themoostconfused'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: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

ruthie_johns's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective tense 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: Complicated

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This book had a lot of good political commentary however the ending is rubbish and the only female character in the book exists merely for the plot and as a representation of sex and I really do not like that. The second half of the book is rather slow, it feels like reading a lot of economic theory. That being said, the commentary it gives still holds up to today and is inherently pessimistic. I personally like a book with blatant hope however I must allow room for the pessimists of the world to express their hopelessness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Infidelity, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation

backitupmoony's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, War

Minor: Rape

alsira98's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence

tenxia's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence

joel2511's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional reflective 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

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Murder

james_forfun's review against another edition

5.0

dark informative tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content, Torture

jess1989's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark informative sad 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: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, War

jairereads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark funny informative 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: Complicated

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Yeah, this is still my Bible.

Upon re-reading, this is book is oddly more minimalistic than I remembered. But I think its simplicity is its strength as a manifesto. It's time to stop deeming texts like these as weirdly prophetic and recogize that we know exactly what we're doing wrong and always have.

Here's to 13 more years of never being able to shut up about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, War, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Stalking

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery

palepixie's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gaslighting, War

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Murder, Classism