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Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'
1984 by Humberto Eco, Miguel Temprano García, George Orwell, George Orwell
200 reviews
Graphic: Body shaming, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Sexism, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Slavery, Suicide, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Child death, Genocide, Infidelity, Slavery, Antisemitism, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation
Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Misogyny, Abandonment, Deportation
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Classism
Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent
First issue: the writing style. It's so...dry? Like even when things get interesting towards the end, it's a bit of a slog to get through. And this might have been the fault of my particular edition, but the paragraphs were SO long and blocky, especially once I got to the book within the book (don't even get me started on how useless I found the book within the book).
Second problem: the characters. To put it bluntly, I hated every single character. All of them. Except for the clothesline lady, I liked her well enough lmao, but everyone else I just wanted to strangle with my bare hands!! And I understand, I get it, I realize that this is part of the book's commentary, but what I've learned from reading this book is that it doesn't matter how ~deep~ the commentary is, if the character whose thoughts I'm reading is hateable and a loser, I just could not care less about what they have to say! And Julia? Equally hateable. She and Winston are, even at their best, SO self centered, I just honestly wanted to throw the book across the room the whole time either one of them was on the page, which was the entire time.
When I take a step back and look at this through the perspective of having read it, I see how Orwell was using every detail to get his message across, this whole idea of warning us of totalitarianism and the danger of not knowing the past, and all of that, but I don't think I will ever willingly read this book again.
So, at the end of the day, would I recommend this book? Yes and no. If you're looking for an entertaining dystopia on the level of The Hunger Games, you're not going to find that here. Buuuuuuut if you're in the kind of headspace where you're ready to read an unentertaining, repetitive, dryly written book with exactly zero likable characters to be seen; if you think you're ready to slog through all that, then yes would recommend it because I think its the kind of book everyone should read at least once. Just don't go into it expecting to root for the characters or care more than a little about the plot.
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Child death, Death, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fatphobia, Rape, Death of parent
I knew a lot of the story from what I gleaned from popular culture. The only surprise really is whether there is a happy or sad ending - which I won’t spoil.
I think I would have appreciated a more ruthless editor. There are times where we have the same information repeated to us over and over, and I found myself thinking, I know Orwell, you told me this. There’s also a large amount of a book read by the main character which confirms what the main character knows, which of course we also knew.. so it would have been perhaps fine to say the book confirmed his knowledge?
At any rate, this is a disturbing tale. Too close to possible in some parts.
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, War
Minor: Self harm
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, War