Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

49 reviews

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

welfin's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Violence, Abandonment

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

yuditk's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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1984 started off very well. I loved George Orwell's writing, I was loving his descriptions, and the story was keeping me at the edge of my seat. I am someone who loves dystopian novels, so that I was loving this was not a surprise. This was true for most of the book but I wish Orwell had kept the momentum of the story up. Instead he decided to take a turn towards the end of the book and insert one of his essays. Yes, the essay was related  but it was definitely not as interesting. I found myself reading but not really understanding. Maybe I am just not smart enough for Orwell, or maybe I just stopped caring. Either way, after the essay was over, I had trouble getting back into the story. Orwell took the plot into a dark hole and I felt that the last part of the book was not as strong as the beginning. If Orwell had kept the momentum going, I feel I would have given this a higher rating. Overall I did not dislike 1984, but I want to read more into what exactly Orwell was trying to say by his ending aside from the obvious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Medical content

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, Stalking, Abandonment

kw05's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative tense slow-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Torture, War

Minor: Abandonment

tell_them_stories's review against another edition

3.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Ableism, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Abandonment

novembers_witch's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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: Body horror, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Abandonment

himpersonal's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad 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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Earlier this year, I read Sandra Newman's Julia, and I recently reread my review. It said I didn't like 1984, but I couldn't remember why. So I reread 1984, and now I realize I need to reread Julia to give it a fairer assessment, especially because in rereading 1984, I realized what I really disliked about the book was only Winston. Even before he's subjected to Big Brother, he thinks he's a good and strong human, but really, he is weak and horrid. I hated his admission to Julia of what he thought of her and wanted to do to her before they actually met (made me wish he would be the victim of those very sentiments). I hated that all it took were a few words from Julia for him to puff himself up into who he thought he was and what he thought he deserved.

Other than Winston, I enjoyed the book. Winston's treatment by Big Brother reminded me a bit of Nurse Ratched's torture of Mack in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

This book feels like the blueprint for Project 2025. Someday, I'd love to meet one of the Project 2025 architects and get an honest take on how they came to put it together. I would bet my most beloved possession that 1984 heavily influenced their strategy. The thing is, a lot of what's in the book has already proven true or been attempted (e.g., during the Japanese occupation in Korea, Koreans were prohibited from speaking Korean - all language was controlled in an attempt to break the Korean spirit). So they've got plenty of historical evidence of what was effective and what can be reinstated or revisioned. Scary times! Feels like I need to reread Animal Farm too now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

bookzplz's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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bruh. more books need to be done like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism

Minor: War

alekslemoon's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War

Moderate: Cursing, War

roshnimc's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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The story was built very well and really hooked me at the beginning. I think the dystopian world and all the laws and rules were well described within the story. I didn't find it necessary to have the huge tract of text defining the laws as done later on. The later part of the story takes a very dark turn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Xenophobia

Moderate: Confinement, Abandonment