Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

3 reviews

semisinful's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The first time I ever read this book I was 14. Reading it again nearly a decade later, it’s still as gripping as it once was. I didn’t read it this time, I listened to the audiobook as read by Harlan Ellison himself and hearing how he reads it is wonderfully fascinating and fully drives the point home how warped and twisted the characters have become at the hands of AM. You feel the cruelty in every breathe, in every word he speaks. It’s so amazing what hearing an author narrate their work can do for that work. And especially when the work is as jaw droppingly well done as this one. Truly a masterpiece, 5/5.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Gore, War, Murder, Sexual assault, Body horror, Torture, Death, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

shetland_pone's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Blood, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Cursing, and Abandonment

marsisred's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Vomit