Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

41 reviews

greatu's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Murder

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, and Classism

fujo_cat's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Aaah, que livro bom!! Faz tempo que um clássico me satisfaz tanto, mas foi uma leitura extremamente interessante. Claro que houve certos capítulos mais aborrecidos e em certos momentos a leitura parecia mais difícil de avançar (leia-se: o ritmo era mais lento) mas, no geral, eu gostei muito c:
O final não me surpreendeu mas não deixou de ser satisfatório! 👀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Blood, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

halliesanto's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Antisemitism, and Stalking

Minor: Drug use and Infidelity

thmei's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• 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

5.0

This book was beautiful and terrible and indulgent and pretentious and every character was self serving and self important and turned beautiful phrase as easily as I breathe and I loved every second of reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Stalking

Minor: Sexism

The sexism isn’t graphic at all and even gets argued with by another character at one point so, for me personally, it wasn’t an uncomfortable or upsetting read, but know that it’s there. From what I can remember, it was all in the many conversations about philosophy and primarily came from one character, so the author seems to have made him view women this way intentionally (and i don’t think you’re supposed to particularly like this character). Dorian picks up some of this sexism as another nod to this character’s negative influence on him. I think its inclusion was purposeful and done well.

ryleehmln's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicide and Stalking

kathleenivy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

s_zoe_k05's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse and Stalking

hannahanderson's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I think this was a solid book. Considering it is a classic, it was very easy to read. I didn’t really love the story, I think because there are morally grey character and I don’t think I like them that much. All the characters were kind of flat too. That being said, the themes were really good, but they were sometimes hard to find. I don’t think I got all that I could since it took me so long to read, but I would still recommend it to mostly everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Antisemitism

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, and Stalking

curatoriallyyours's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

It somewhat picked up the pace in the end but not much happens until half way through the book. Prior to that it's all just unlikeable characters bantering and being ever so clever or ever so dramatic. It was OK. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, and Death of parent