Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Outsider by Albert Camus

150 reviews

marcepax's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Gun violence

thyrine's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.5

Albert Camus tackles the idea of Nihilism, emphasising the absurdity of life within the pages, and give us a moral dilemma that will eat your brain in the end: "In front of the inevitable, does anything truly holds any meaning?". 

We watch the protagonist, Meursault, navigate this exact question through the book until the very end. I cannot explain more than this since it'll go on spoiler territory, but I 100% recommend you to give it a chance. 

And if you don't get the book the first time, take a break, and come back for a reread another time. You can read it in one sitting alone (I myself read it in three hours when I got it). This is one of those books people might not understand on a first sitting and that's totally fine! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Toxic relationship

alyc00per's review against another edition

dark reflective relaxing sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and Sexual harassment

countdraculahimself's review against another edition

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

zimm_liz's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.5

I can see why this would be considered a classic, it’s a postmodernist poster boy. Just not my thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence

mattypallett's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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

3.75

Felt to me like a book warning about the dangers of apathy through our super detached protagonist. I found him pretty annoying, but I did enjoy the bluntness and humour Camus infused into the story.

Idk it’s past midnight and i’m sleepy so I don’t have much more to say on it rn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Xenophobia

jacob_dion's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

amelieedenn's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

tiaroseshang's review against another edition

mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

manish003's review against another edition

reflective slow-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

4.5

A naked view of how biases rule the world from a man who adds nothing extra of his own to what he experiences, who is condemned to death just because his actions didn't qualify as normal, who is intolerant of any comforting religious privileged nonsense and accepts that life has no greater meaning.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder