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nerdkitten's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, Genocide, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War
izzydelaya's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol
canopicfemme's review against another edition
2.25
the part’s about the navidson record we’re interesting at times, tho usually it was dull. Johnny’s segments were even worse. at best they were rambles that while connected to the navidson record stuff, were too long and branched off into random stories from his past. at worst the johnny segments were long, barely coherent ramblings that were not connected to anything.
this book does not need to be this long, there is so much unnecessary shit that should’ve been cut out. most of johnny’s ramblings, whatever the hell those pelican poems were, the random quotes at the end of the book (+ more) were unnecessary. the r slur is thrown in for some reason as well as ableist and racist remarks.
THE FUCKING MISOGYNY IN THIS BOOK. pretty much all the women are sexy, naive but intelligent, have basically the same personality, and johnny want’s to sleep with pretty much all of them and so the reader is subjected to multiple paragraphs of johnny just fantasising of sleeping with all these women and it’s like ????? what the fuck??? not a single well rounded woman in this book, ever single one of the women revolve entirely around their relationship to a man.
there’s also the use of rape as just a tragic backstory mentioned in a one off line for about 1/4 of the women in this book, not to mention the part where johnny fantasies about raping a woman.
there’s also the descriptions of unnecessarily gruesome animal death.
how this book has such a cult following is beyond me.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse and Drug abuse
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Racism
13octopus's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol
Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Blood
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and Incest
dogfishpoem's review against another edition
- 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
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Eating disorder, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Rape