Reviews tagging 'Classism'

L'attrape-cœurs by J.D. Salinger

12 reviews

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy catcher in the rye at all. I picked it up on a whim, since I figured the summer before college would be the perfect time to read it. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed it so much, the themes of innocence lost and struggling to find your place in the world really hit home. Maybe it’s a testament to Salinger’s writing. Maybe it’s just that I will never read anything like it again.

I’ll never understand why people call this a red flag book. Yes, Holden is not the easiest protagonist in the world, but he is also confused, depressed, young, and traumatized.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape and Classism

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

rory_john14's review against another edition

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, and Classism

stuckduck's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Violence, and Vomit

pitchperfectamy's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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

Incredibly well written, main character hypocrite slinky needs therapy 🫵

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Sexism, and Classism

melancholymegs's review against another edition

reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Classism

bronaghd07's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, and Classism

evawertz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

5.0

This book is one of the few books where I felt like mental illness was shown from the perspective of the person experiencing the mental illness in a very accurate way. Holden's superiority complex is precisely how it is to have one in real life, you feel justified to point out everything you find wrong in people while excusing your even worse faults. You act rashly because everything seems to lack value and time zooms by or stretches on forever in your mind. Unlike most books, there's not a final destination or moment in someone's life that completes the book. The book is a snippet of the plain but complex days in someone's life. There is no happy or sad ending just a pause and let's see what happens. It portrays how life isn't a story with a perfect beginning to end and how you never know what's next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Vomit, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Excrement, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

alisonnicholslol's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

1.25

Holden is a whiny bitch. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Grief, and Classism

sunny_not's review against another edition

adventurous 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

2.5

Just a weird teenage boy hating everything, being sexist, racist and homophobic at the same time. Definitely of its time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

maliciouslesbian's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Classism