Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

15 reviews

novelyon's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

i can't believe the novel started with the "there is only one bed" trope and ended with ahab trying to attack and dethrone God

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

abomine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Cannibalism

msjenne's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

sherbertwells's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

The sole survivor of a shipwreck immortalizes its ill-fated final voyage: its crew, its prey and its captain’s monomaniacal obsession with the titular white whale. Verbose and glorious, and if Melville is not quite the American Shakespeare he is something deeper altogether.

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began. Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?” (283)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Antisemitism, and Cannibalism

yavin_iv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs and Medical trauma

Minor: Antisemitism and Cannibalism