Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

82 reviews

smallpanini's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

"The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides is a haunting exploration of adolescence, memory, and the enigma of the Lisbon sisters, five mysterious girls who captivate their suburban neighborhood. Eugenides masterfully captures the suffocating atmosphere of 1970s American suburbia, blending melancholy with moments of dark humor. The narrative, told from the collective perspective of the neighborhood boys, offers a unique and distant viewpoint that adds to the novel's eerie, dreamlike quality. However, the detachment of the narration and the ambiguity surrounding the girls' lives left me craving more depth and emotional connection. While the prose is undeniably beautiful and evocative, the novel's elusive nature made it challenging to immerse fully. Overall, it's a poignant, if somewhat distant, meditation on loss and longing, earning a solid 3.75 stars."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Ableism, Racial slurs, and Alcohol

echaurz's review against another edition

dark medium-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

aged absolutely horrendously 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Racial slurs, and Racism

melusinedln's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

doitsushine92's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Classism

gracebrady's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

Really slow with unnecessary racism and ableism. Monotonous details from the brains of boys that I wasn’t really interested in. However, I enjoyed the mystery surrounding the Lisbon girls, but I would’ve enjoyed it more from someone else’s point of view. The movie is fairly true to the book, but I think it’s all a little too slow for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Blood

avasbookmark's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism and Racial slurs

tarajoy90's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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: Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Racial slurs, and Racism

kmair99's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism

lyktestolpe's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

Beautifully written but frustrating. I feel like I didn’t fully «get» it. None of the characters got to be real characters, and this was probably the author’s intention, commenting on American suburbia in a specific moment in time as a collective consciousness/organism obsessed with the girls existing somewhere on the margins. Pretty cool in its own way and it felt meaningful, but definitely hard to connect to when there’s no real main character(s) to grow attached to, and hard to differentiate most of the girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement, Sexism, and Sexual content

hanamsti's review against another edition

So many creepy descriptions of a 13 y/o girl. Her "budding chest", her "pagan nudity" and "her small body giving off the odor of a mature woman". Also refers to a character as a r*tard and mentions his small Japanese eyes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, and Sexual harassment