Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

4 reviews

hollywatson's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

mairu's review against another edition

dark 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? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death and Excrement

emmacb's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-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

3.0

I enjoyed this book at the start, but sort of lost it as I continued to read. 
It feels like the sort of book where the author is reeeeeally trying to say something and either it's going over my head or i just straight up disagree. 

Or both. 

The book feels like a comment on humanity in a similar way to lord of the flies where it's not so much a comment on actual human behaviour as the author's cynical idea of human behaviour that maybe says more about them than it does about humans! Also I had some thoughts on the depiction of women - it wasn't great. OK bad... to a degree that had me wondering if this was all a meta-commentary on people's depiction of humans in literature because surely noone thinks that's actually how women (or men tbh) would behave in the scenarios described in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Incest, Rape, and Sexual violence

kaayaak's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Lord of the flies meets modern day society

Listened to this read by Tom Hiddleston. Great experience but not sure if I absorbed the book very well bc I kept getting lost in his voice and I’m not good at auditory learning lol. Seemed really good and well written but take my review w a biased grain of salt. It twas dark tho 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Abandonment