Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Bedenke Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

7 reviews

carthyn's review against another edition

Got halfway through, still looking for the sci-fi, grossed out a few times, and still, NOTHING. And according to reviews, it only got worse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fatphobia, Gore, Sexism, Torture, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

WHY IS THIS SO POPULAR?

gab1one's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-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? Yes

3.75

Liked it better on my second read, especially the second half

on the planet of the dead

where the tempo slows down a bit. It's quite grim at times, at others funny.
This book is a subversion of the Space Opera genre, by turning everything to 11 and having the main character be unlikeable, selfish, and unimportant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Sexual content

prosenheim's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Sexism, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Religious bigotry, and War

Minor: Drug use and Pregnancy

madamchiroptera's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

4.0

I was not actually expecting to like this book as much as I did. As much as I like space operas, the older ones tend to feel either a little boring a technobabble-y or there’s just too much problematic stuff that it makes hard for me to read and enjoy. There was still a little bit of that misogyny in this book, but it’s few and far between so it’s easier to kind of acknowledge as a product of its time and move on. 

A main theme that I got from it was kind of the morality of war and what it means to be on a side of that war. I perceived the changers as a metaphor for that. It was interesting and I liked the character’s interactions with each other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny and Rape

graphic death of a pregnant woman

fahyhallowell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Torture, Cannibalism, Murder, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

el_pato_gigante's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Xenophobia, and Excrement

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

shanekate's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Drug use and Abortion

Very graphic.