Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Die geheime Geschichte, by Donna Tartt

255 reviews

meganeorcx's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

2.0

If anyone ever tells me that this is their favourite book, I will politely smile and back away. See, I get its appeal in light of it being satire and critiquing classicism but that could have easily been done in around 200 pages. The beginning was tedious and Richard is a really boring narrator. I'm okay with unlikeable characters but not when the novel is this  long and you have to spend too many pages watching them drink themselves to near-death. The writing was gorgeous, pretentious, maybe, but nice enough, but definitely doesn't save how overall problematic the book is. Honestly, this book could have had the exact same effect without those weird racist passages and having its one gay character take advantage of others when they're drunk. I don't care if it's supposed to be a "dark" story, it feels like a cover up for the author's worldview and I was not vibing with it. The middle part was exciting and so were some parts near the end, but with Richard's perspective, even that couldn't save how I felt about this book. And to think this entire book wouldn't exist if these dumb characters would recognise their own privilege and just gone to the police instead... YAWN! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Incest, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Racism, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Murder, Suicide, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Classism

norea999's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

4.25

Donna Tartt's writing is soon lyrical and for a lack of a better word perfect. She makes you feel what she imagined through the most graphic imagery. 
And of course the book gives major dark academia vibes, as it's a comment on elitism and classism and how far from reality these people are. 
BUT the second half of the book took forever to finish because there isn't any real plot, like the first half also has some "just vibes" passages but there it serves to introduce the reader into the lives of the characters. But in the second half it's basically a lot of drinking and drugs and of course this has a deeper meaning but that didn't make it any easier to read. 
And all the name dropping of grand philosophers and poets and what not, which I get again serves the point of showing the elitism, but was nontheless annoying because it just made me feel dumb for looking every other word up. This also extends to the general language, but I think mostly non-native speakers (C1) like myself would struggle with that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Homophobia, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Murder

hamletshedgehogs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

5.0

I’ve never read a book quite like it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Grief, Drug use, Homophobia, and Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Classism, Antisemitism, Cursing, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

Most of the content warnings available feature to some degree. These are mostly brief mentions that add to the realism of the story’s setting, rather than key elements of the plot, however it can be quite jarring all the same.

_grmlin's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

honestly if i was richard i would also wanna know what the deal with  the isolated greek class is even though it screamed cult 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism, Incest, and Drug use

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gun violence

philthyrat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

you think you know but you don't. you need to read it as a detective. in that way this book is a statement of the suspect. would you arrest the suspect? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Grief, Incest, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

dmathuna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Man what a fucking trip holy shit, the first 200 or so pages are definitely slow, but there’s a point where it picks up and it becomes very hard to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicide attempt, Incest, Suicide, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

noo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Incest, Suicide, Grief, Blood, Drug use, Homophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Animal death, Car accident, Classism, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Racism

mackennac's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Murder, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Incest, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Drug use, and Gun violence

stierwood's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Lots of highlights and low points, including but not limited to the 2 dimensionality of the only female character, the page-turning aspect, the dialogue & prose being both incredibly descriptive/beautiful/smart & pretentious/awkward at the same time, the sharp and interesting (except for camilla) and highly dislikeable characters, and the incest 😟 much to unpack. Deeply disturbed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Medical content, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Suicide, Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racial slurs, Torture, Violence, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

whateversean's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Incest, Murder, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, and Antisemitism