Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

16 reviews

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bkmckown's review

5.0

This book was an emotional ride! This author was well beyond his time and struck every nerve and left them raw. The writing was amazing, the story was tragic and heartbreaking and it made the reader feel such strong empathy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

spooderman's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Alcohol

corruptednatz's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.25

It’s a sad book, we witness a man slowly go insane being trapped within his own body with no way of communication. The book does a good job of evoking the sense of dread as the man comes to terms with his missing limbs, blindness and deafness. I gave the book a 2 star for the concept. It’s a scary concept that can happen to anyone but the book was mostly the man reminiscing about his past life (some points felt like filler) which made the book very slow. The bits and pieces about him in the hospital bed could only fill up a couple of chapters.

 It would’ve been more interesting if the author expanded on the last part of the book when he was able to communicate through Morse code. Rather than the doctor giving him sedatives to shut him up and silence him forever (I understand why, because the government doesn’t want the world to see what war does to a man); he could’ve actually asked questions about his platoon and got more Info on his family or what happened in the war, then shut him up once his questions were too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racial slurs

sassafrasrewts's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Slavery