Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Kristina Gehrmann

11 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gore, Racism, Antisemitism, Grief, Pregnancy, Animal death, Child death, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual assault, Sexism, Child abuse, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Rape, Violence, and Excrement

Minor: Cannibalism and Confinement

reedsky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Police brutality, Death of parent, Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

tgibbs44's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Blood, Death, Animal death, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault

summboo's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Intense book that causes you to reflect on capitalist systems

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Death of parent

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexual assault, Child death, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Grief

The book is intense I’m it’s descriptions of poverty and the food industry in the early 1900s. Parts of the book are unsettling and difficult to read because they are trauma spawning events for the main character

kathleendayle's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Classism, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Police brutality, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Grief

alex2teeuw's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

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

3.75

A rather depressing read, it must be said. It's incredibly informative. You feel the despair whilst reading it. And it's strangely relatable to contemporary society; not because of destitution, starvation and consumption epidemics, not to mention the famous depiction of the slaughterhouses - in Europe and the USA these are (for most people) no longer pressing issues. Rather Sinclair draws attention towards the necessity for profit at all costs and the injustices of poverty in a world of plenty. Yet, for all that is rewarding about Sinclair's impressive and polemic descriptions, the novel felt at times a bit too slow. The arduous conditions of the working class in early 20th century Chicago were at times themselves labouring for the reader - maybe this is deliberate: after all, it is a realist novel. These experiences were lived.
The ending is abrupt. Hopeful though it may be, it does not relate the prospects of a brighter future to the tumultuous lives of the past documented throughout the novel. (who am I to criticise Upton Sinclair??). The Jungle is impactful and insightful, but it's not exciting, it's not gripping. And it feels like the story is unfinished. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical trauma, Violence, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Racial slurs, Abortion, Xenophobia, Grief, Cursing, Misogyny, and Medical content

monjure's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child death, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Classism, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Xenophobia and Alcoholism

clara_2021's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

grayscale08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

amanileb's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, and Violence