Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Farm der Tiere by George Orwell

21 reviews

john_pascoe's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Slavery, and Torture

hannah_cogo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Suicide, Torture, Violence, and War

tigeryear's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

books that make you feel like a broken-down horse. or perhaps a nihilistic ass.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism and Torture

Minor: Murder and Alcohol

tobi_bee_5802's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

5.0

This is probably my favourite book of all time. I have only read it twice so far and I can’t stop thinking about it. 
Small Spoiler Below

As a part of my grade 12 politics class, we watched a series of lectures called ‘The American Paradox’ by Heather Cox Richardson and it’s available free on youtube, and essentially it was american equality is based on inequality and the fear the becoming equal will make everything unequal. I though about this when I reached the ‘All animals are equal but some are more equal than other’ line and holy shit. (That was the series thesis and I read animal farm after that)

I loved the writing style and after I started reading I just kept reading. It also has a great audiobook version on spotify. I highly recommend this book to everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

thefemale_nickmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I’m ride or die for Clover, Benjamin and bless his heart Boxer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicide

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tomtomonomtom's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Jfc, Orwell delivers. Everything hits the fan, no object misses, not even one. I read this novel because I am a fan of Orwell's essays and his writing style, I want to see in turn how he writes a novel. 

Took me a surprise that's for sure, but the novel did carry along with it the typical Orwell political topics (as it did with 1984). Least to say, this novel is depressing as hell and I was already in such a crisis before reading this. 

The characters, because of their way of portrayal as animals, works wonders when it comes to symbolizing their role in the mad house. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Deadnaming

deadpoetsam's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Confinement, Slavery, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

rory1387's review against another edition

dark tense 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

3.0

was good, then I had to reread it and write an essay on it for class, then I didn't like it as much. 
also do I do content warning as though they were people? help?!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Death

Moderate: Torture

alannakitty97's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Slavery, and War

Minor: Misogyny, Torture, and War