Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

2 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Colonisation, Addiction, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Classism, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Sexism, Ableism, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Xenophobia, and Misogyny

Extinction and apocalyptic events in multiple stories. Dissection, though with visuals of machinery rather than flesh ("Exhalation"). Mentions of bestiality, discussion of sentient sex dolls, cruelty to and dehumanization of AIs/robots, emotional infidelity ("The Lifecycle of Software Objects"). Mentions of natural disasters, manipulation/extortion ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom").

rnbhargava's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The short stories across this book are mostly sci-fi tinged, character based, moral dilemma narratives. Of course there will always be subjective mileage on subject matter for different readers but I was always quite engaged, feeling all sorts of emotions and reactions while reading through all the different stories. It’s a pretty good collection, some stories might be too slight or too bloated to some readers but they’re all pretty worthwhile for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Violence, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Body horror, Grief, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Car accident, Classism, Colonisation, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Slavery, and Terminal illness

The triggers above are all treated as extremes, they’re not confined, those showing preference for those are all ultimately less than savoury even if they’re our point of view character. Most of the tales have a good amount of intellectual curiosity and whimsy in at least a portion of them