Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

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

198 reviews

djdazi180's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective 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: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

batwinggoth's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative 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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Really good book that captures many aspects of authoritarianism with meaningful insights and tactics of a totalitarian government. Horrifying and real. 1984 illustrates what fascism does to a society and the lengths those in power will go to exert that power over others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Gun violence, Excrement, Vomit, Alcohol, War

mjvorgo's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a vision of a dark dystopian future, showcasing the fragility of modern life, which sadly even in 2025 seems to have parallels and relevance.   This is a vision of what happens if the wrong hands get control, and would have been significant politically at release.  It is an important book, clearly.  However it is not for the faint hearted, nor should it be.

It can be a tricky read in 2025, where it does not have a modern flow.  But it is worth persevering to the end, to understand the importance of the text, and the true feeling for the story.

Definitely worth reading something lighter afterwards!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts

quintopus's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Orwell writes a sharp-eyed disturbing vision of a future that shares der real unsettling similarities with the world that we live in right now. There are the technological aspects of Telescreens that are always on, always watching, or machine generated works of literature and music that aim to entertain and are completely soulless. There is also the simplification and radicalisation of language that result in things like a two minute hate to fuel inequality towards the “other” instead of striving for change within. 
But Orwell himself writes with deep, furious empathy, at times giving us an intimate view of poverty and torture that forces you to feel the injustices committed on paper. 
It’s an impressive, exhausting, amazing novel. I feel like I need to almost adjust my other reviews to give this one the rating it deserves. 
10/10. Read it if you haven’t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, War

olive_mei's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark mysterious 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: Yes

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The fact that this book was written in 1949 trying to imagine how 1984 is going to be, however we’re in 2025 and this feels as real as ever. It’ll never cease to amaze me how current this is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, War

Minor: Rape

dkamada's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Torture, Gaslighting, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail

jorose's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Genocide, Misogyny, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Colonisation, War

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

annahamburger's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Girlboss gaslight gatekeep 

But for real - I was waiting for Winston's submission to be his entry as a double agent/into the brotherhood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Xenophobia, Murder, War

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Stalking, Acephobia/Arophobia

averysbookclub's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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It is obviously an important book, at times it is an enjoyable book. The plot is extremely well thought out and executed beautifully. It can’t be an easy feat to completely build a horribly corrupt, evil, dystopian government/society.
That being said, it is so boring. Orwells writing drags on for so long, one thing that could be a few sentences becomes two pages and all of a sudden I am asleep.
That really is my only negative. It is a great story and there were many times that I paused reading just to sit and think about what I just read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Fatphobia, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Alcohol, War, Classism

spock22a's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity