Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34 reviews

lemonfrog's review against another edition

challenging dark funny

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and War

Moderate: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Vomit

julia_reads_more_now's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual assault

Minor: Gore

niacinamides's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

I couldn’t figure out a way to possibly rate this in stars. I loved this book, but I don’t know if I particularly liked it. I’m very glad I read it, but I don’t know if I could read it again. It’s an unbelievably well crafted book but I couldn’t fully see that until I was nearly 3/4 of the way through. I’ll think about the last quarter or so of this book for a long, long time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, and War

fdap's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual assault

scarletkeiller's review

challenging dark funny 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

1.0

Far too long. It was funny at first with some really bizarre, needlessly aggressive sections of dialogue and a plot that felt like listening to a broken record. It keeps circling back and back and back in on itself to fill in more and more gaps in the story, while the story continues advancing forwards at the same time. For the first quarter of the book, I found this very entertaining, especially the fact that everyone took everything so literally and they would all misunderstand each other constantly. However, this is a TOME, so of course all of these devices got old extremely fast and Heller failed to introduce anything new as he went. So what we’re left with is a hefty book where nothing happens and you’re forced to read about the nothing that’s happening over and over again. I'd love this if I was a white man who loves to monologue about historical events and treat women like shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape

seph5040's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

krohnan's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Gore

Minor: War

chasekj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny 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? Yes

5.0

My brain is scrambled in the best way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, and War

madzie's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Grief

jujubeans's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

Ok imagine the speed and subject of the plot like this: completely straight and consistent line for about the first 85%, then a quick drop in tone and weirdly enough, style, then a crazy steep climb at the very end.  It is incredibly crass, vulgar, violent, gory, confusing, and humorous in the way “Who’s on first“ would be humorous if the characters were depressed, lonely, terrified, and traumatized to a great extent. 

I don’t know how I feel about it to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

This is not a book for light reading. It will disgust you and horrify you. The sexual violence was most disturbing to me. I’m gonna say that again for good measure: repeated, horrifying, insane degrees of sexual violence all throughout the book.