Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

5 reviews

hypocrisis's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

couldn't get past the racism, pedophilia and misogyny (unfortunately?). 
Selfish and self-destructive characters like Dean Moriarty can only be romanticised as 'angel(s) of terror' and prophets from the safe distance of a reader ...or a protagonist who's in a permanent state of intoxication.
I'm sure it was groundbreaking at the time, but the lifestyle described doesn't appeal to me, even though i do give into 'madness' at times and love 'kicks'. Maybe I'd get it if i had a real connection to american culture and jazz, or if i had a driver's license lol.  Maybe I'm too stuck in my middle-class ways to see it, but i didn't get the point of all these roadtrips just to do the same thing with the same people all over again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault and Toxic friendship

touchingartt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-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

2.25

As much as this is a classic, it was actually really hard to read it and there are a few reasons for that:
1) All characters, especially Dean, do not seem like genuinely good people. (cheating, racism, r*pe, and at some point even pe*ophi*ia)
2) Plot is basically non-existent
3) You need to have extremely good knowledge about America in the 1940s and 1950s to understand how some things might have worked or are possible; the same goes for knowledge on certain American cities where they travel a few times (i.e. Denver, San Francisco, New York...), so you can understand which parts of those cities were poor, industrial, fancy, etc.
4) Writing was lazy at some point, so it seems like you can never finish reading one page even tho it says basically nothing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

biljnavjestica's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Alcohol

alexander_'s review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

egorkova's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault