Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

10 reviews

poetlite's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Police brutality, War, Sexual content, and Torture

zabiume's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

The writing style was so gut-wrenching and precise, so evocative and vivid, that it really comes alive in the mind's imagination. I liked the way the entire story unfolds like an epic (somewhere between poetry and drama). The author tackles some intriguing themes, like trying to live your life amidst global (or local) political crises – and the complexities of that life as well. A lot of lines were truly beautiful and makes you ponder about human resistance, interconnectedness, hope and faith. Kaminsky captures little nuances or gestures of human behavior that pull you into the poetry and make it very believable. I thought it was very clever how he integrated the semi-autobiographical (his own experience with deafness), with the political (deafness as a form or protest or insurgency).

There were some parts I didn't get, but I think that's entirely a me problem. Overall, this was a short but good read! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, War, Sexual content, Gore, Police brutality, and Violence

jazhandz's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

imrereads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

4.0

I think this is something I need to read several times to truly appreciate, yet I appreciates it plently this first time around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Child death, Death, Gun violence, and War

careinthelibrary's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Powerful combination of poetry and drama. It walks the line between the two and draws you into a spare story of resistance and oppression. I went in unsure of what to expect and was swept up in the narrative, finishing this in just a sitting or two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Death of parent, Police brutality, Ableism, Grief, Murder, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

aeudaimonia's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Child death, and Police brutality

linguaphile412's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, and War

Minor: Sexual content

_forestofpages's review

dark sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death

smallredboy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

Ilya Kaminsky's enunciation is one of a rabbi or a cantor: it makes everything about this book more potent, more real, more than it already is. It's a work of art. I adored it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Torture, Pregnancy, Police brutality, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

shanban0303's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was shockingly brilliant. I read reviews and elsewhere and had been following the author for about, so I knew I’d enjoy it, but was not expecting it to be nearly as poignant and connected to the times as it is. I appreciated, more than anything else, the way the author connected the two main “stories” in the book: his time in the former Soviet Union and his time in the United States. And the way he did it... was masterful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Sexual content