Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Die geheime Geschichte by Donna Tartt

409 reviews

anneroza's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping

baz_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Incest, Racism, Suicide, and Classism

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

caffeinatedbookdragon's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

I don’t know y’all. I think dark academia might not be for me. I really enjoyed the prose. It was engaging and kept me interested to a degree, but the pacing was SO SLOW. I ended up skimming some parts just to get through it. 

The characters are morally bankrupt (mostly) rich kids, so it was hard to really care about them. I genuinely don’t understand why Richard in particular went along with some ~particular~ actions of the others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, and Classism

toast_renumeration's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Classism

abhea_reads's review against another edition

4.75

"england was so wowed by the secret history they named their king and ~camilla~ after the twins" — I wrote that before even finishing the first ⅕ of the book and I had no idea how true it would turn out to be

 

I love linguistics so much and this book would get 5 stars if slurs didn't jump scare me every time I started to feel safe again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Incest, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Classism

Minor: Rape

sunlitridges's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

My rating for this one keeps getting higher and higher bc while it didn't originally seem spectacular to me, I find myself thinking about it in my spare time immediately started re-reading to see if I can pick up on any details I previously missed. Also wonderful descriptions from the author. I'll likely read of few times 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Stalking

abigailhaagen's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Story was incredibly well-told, the characters very fleshed-out, and I was engrossed and read almost 400 pages in one day. However, it also romanticized a lot of unhealthy behaviors, which probably wasn't great for me mentally (no, Abigail, you can't return to college to study Ancient Greek while drinking bourbon and smoking cigars

and plotting murders

smh)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Antisemitism

avesmaria's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

Absorbing, intricate, incredibly good read. Tartt is a master craftsperson with words here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Gore, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Animal death and Rape

violet_viper's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Incest and Xenophobia

haerumii's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism