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Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'
1984 by Humberto Eco, Miguel Temprano García, George Orwell, George Orwell
101 reviews
Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War
Minor: Slavery, Xenophobia, Antisemitism
However, the story itself was simply not something I could get that interested in. I didn't like the characters, the plot was very lacking and I found it hard to care about story. I respect the story for what it is which is a vessel for exploring this fictional world and the ideas that make it so horrible of a society but I barely enjoy it simply as a story.
In summary: Uninteresting story, well-handled subject, disturbing (good) worldbuilding and a dark warning that needs to be heard.
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence
Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Xenophobia, Stalking, War
Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality
Moderate: Body horror
Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, War
Graphic: Confinement, Torture, War
Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail
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
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.
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
Graphic: Racial slurs, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War
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.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming, Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, War
Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Alcohol
Minor: Child death
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