Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

149 reviews

_p0ssum_'s review against another edition

1.25

Why does the school system still make us read this ?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Fatphobia, and Murder

Minor: Racial slurs, Blood, and War

winifara's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit

lrk_07's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

This book’s a good read if you like books with flawed characters. There’s definitely parts of the book that you have to interpret for yourself, which I liked. It makes you think about morals. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia

rubberrosebooks's review against another edition

dark sad medium-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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

margaux_s's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Fatphobia

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Confinement, Excrement, War, and Classism

justcallme_blondie's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

This book is only 190 pages long and yet it felt longer than the whole Twilight series and the ACTOR series combined. It was the slowest novel I've ever read and the only thing I can summarize from it is that if it had been an island of girls, they never would have resorted to killing each other. This whole book could have been avoided if there were no boys on the island and there were girls instead. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Fatphobia, Genocide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

alvahalldorf's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

I think they couldve made the story much darker and gone into depth about the cannibalism and their figths. It was a bit rushed through. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, and Cannibalism

rylin_marie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

this book is not what i was expecting. 

this book is disturbing. it starts out with a few innocent boys ages 4-12 who are stranded on an island, not aware of the war going on around them. as the novel progresses, the boys divide and turn into straight savages. even though the author is not a christian, this book has much biblical allusion. simon is a Christ figure. the very title lord of the flies refers to beelzebub or satan. this book highlights loss of innocence and man’s inherent evil. 

this book is so heavy. i can’t help but feel bad for the boys, even jack. they have been so corrupted to the point that death does not phase them. they are desensitized to murder. i genuinely cried while reading this which is crazy because i have to read it for school. the author did a great job of displaying the horrendous things he saw during his time in world war ii and his years of teaching at an all boys boarding school. this book is a parody of sorts on coral island, showing that a bunch of boys being stranded on an island is actually the farthest thing from paradise. 

i think this book is so disturbing because it would be a reality. the sweet innocent boys at the beginning turn into complete and total monsters. the author perfectly captured the built in evil of mankind. now i’m going to be sad thinking abt this book for a while. 

justice for piggy and simon 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mela_tonin's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail