Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

La larga marcha by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

43 reviews

zarap's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.0

Rating this smack dab in the middle - the premise was excellent, the parallel to war was on point, and some of the characters absolutely gripped me.... But it felt more like an unpolished draft than other dystopian books I've read and loved, plus the racism, misogyny, and homophobia are off the charts in ways that don't feel entirely attributable to the characters themselves. I liked the ending, but there's a lot left to be desired in the execution. Probably not surprising for his first novel. I did like it more than other books of his I've read, in large part because it doesn't have women characters who are significant enough to be as thoroughly mistreated as in some of the others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Vomit

manuelte's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

Felt like a short story, which I mean as a compliment. So much of the world is hinted at while keeping the focus squarely on the protagonists. Left me wanting to read more stories set in this same world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, and Toxic friendship

justagremlin's review against another edition

You know I said I didn't DNF books much, but I REALLY do not like Stephen King writing characters that are children. I was only like 20% in and I had seen enough. The concept is interesting so it makes me sad that I couldn't finish it. But seriously within the first PAGE. THE. VERY. FIRST. PAGE. We're commenting on the main character's mom's tits. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? And this is just the first of many times we get "Men Writing Women Syndrome." And it's just very very very very icky to read and gross and bad and I can't even write grammatically correct sentences anymore. Also, I can't speak on the rest of the book obviously but it was getting a bit repetitive. 

They walk. They banter. Sex reference. Someone gets shot.
They walk. They banter. Sex reference. Someone gets shot.
They walk. They banter. Sex reference. Someone gets shot.
They walk. They banter. Sex reference. Someone gets shot.

Again I can't speak on the rest of the novel, I only stopped 20% in.

Recommend to: If you think the concept is neat and can suffer through "men writing women syndrome"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Misogyny, and Torture

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Gun Violence/Torture

The walk is nonstop and it is literally torture for the participants, if you fall behind you are shot after three warnings.

Misogyny, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Content

These characters are so horny all the time, and this book as a case of men writing women syndrome, frequent mentions of boobs, sex, and boners and its really icky and gross and bad to read

Racism/Racial Slurs

In the second chapter, the contestant that dies is black and all the characters are racist to the black character.

barelyreader's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

When its good its good but when it's bad its god awful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death

chanellee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This book takes a very simple premise, what if 100 boys had to walk to the death, and brings you on a rollercoaster ride. 

My only gripe is the use of the Nword. It felt gratuitous. 

I would also would have liked more context about the world and what happens after the race, but I respect King’s choice to show only what he did.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

mrsmishler's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Body horror

clichemarker's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

"Queer, not queer, that didn't seem to matter now that they were all busy dying."

Wow
I really enjoyed this book.
It starts a little rocky, (One of the first things our mc does is talk about his mom's breasts), but it picks up. 
You know going into it that most of these characters are going to die, but it's hard not to care about them. All their stories and personalities were really well thought out.
And it's funny and witty. And the gore isn't so extreme that it turns you away. It's so well done

"Our father, which art in tinfoil,
hallow'd be thy name."

Rest in Piss Barkovich

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racial slurs, Blood, and Murder

threepigeons's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Suicidal thoughts

hankerchiefghost's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

2.0

The concept is really interesting, but I wish there had more of a focus on why the boys were in the Walk. It felt a bit lazy for most of the boys to just be like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Vomit