Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

35 reviews

rgraham's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Torture, Ableism, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

kerttuli's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Torture, Body shaming, Violence, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Sexism

Minor: Toxic relationship and Death

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

I haven't read this book in over 10 years, and my take on it is very different now. It's surprisingly mean-spirited in a lot of places (especially the frame narrative), and the fatphobia and body-shaming are really relentless. And for all I remember it as a sweeping love story, it's actually super cynical about romantic love. But in other ways it's still as funny and surprising and just plain fun as it was the first time I read it more than 2 decades ago.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Torture, Alcoholism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Animal death

strabbyfieldz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

cannot believe that the whole morgenstern / goldman meta is this effective purely because goldman's narration suuuuuucks so hard and 'morgenstern's' doesn't lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Fatphobia

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Domestic abuse

samchase112's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I will just say this: I am glad I read it because I can say I have, but from now on I think I’ll simply stick to the film.

The story was fun, an exciting adventure, and certainly could have gone without the constant abridgment-interruptions or the maddeningly long introduction. It just got the point where after I’d finished the main story, I just didn’t even bother with Buttercup’s Baby. But I just give props because the story itself is, generally, a good one. It just happens to work better as a film, where Golding’s writerly shortcomings aren’t an issue. Ah, as I said, I’m glad I can say I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Death of parent, Confinement, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Blood

jesswp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism

candycain's review

adventurous challenging funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Abandonment, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

zzelda's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Torture, Gore, Blood, and Violence

akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Very funny! I prefer the film (I know- sacrilege!!!) but the ending was kind of flimsy and hard to follow which sucked because everything up until then was amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Death

All warnings are in the book but either presented in a darkly comic fashion or played for laughs

elizabeth_lepore's review

adventurous funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Suicidal thoughts