Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

12 reviews

lettucelaugh's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Medical trauma

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

chrisljm's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

“Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Drug abuse, and Death

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Racism

random19379's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Mental illness, War, Violence, Racial slurs, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Genocide

blueteacup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Mental illness

Moderate: War, Genocide, and Ableism

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

erikwmj's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, War, and Genocide

esmartd's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Genocide, Gore, Forced institutionalization, and Death

Minor: Cancer and Car accident

aandromeda's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Genocide and Racism

lipka's review against another edition

challenging hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

        I am deeply attached to the person holding the center, and the person embracing him. The sky-sea space-time matter-energy self-universe center-edge is at stake; the pages too few to cradle all of the implications thereof. But it's as sweet as it is small. And sanguine. And blue. If I dream any dream, I'd be glad of it being a dream as kind as this one was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Mental illness

Moderate: War, Ableism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Murder, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Car accident

satanicangel's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, War, and Genocide

tiemzahra's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Short read on sci-fi/dystopian, about George Orr who has powerful dreams that could alter reality. He was sent to a psychiatrist, who then used George’s dream to create an ideal world. Or was it?

I don’t have a strong opinion on this book. Centralising the question of ethics, I believe this book has stated its preferences already based on the outcomes narrated. It also contains elaborated explanations on sleep and dream, go figure what it has led me to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Genocide and Racial slurs

Minor: Drug use