Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

23 reviews

lilacfoxes's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism and Racism

Minor: Pedophilia

genesismt's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Sexual harassment

ashleytalksbooks's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

miraveta's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Interesting to read a story where the narrators are so blatantly wrong about what's actually going on. They've placed themselves near the heart of a narrative they built up that in reality has little to do with them or anything larger than life, but rather the various everyday social pressures of the panopticon that is WASP suburban life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual harassment

meowcoric's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual harassment

lexigrce's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? No

4.0

this book is just so tragic, the irony of telling a whole story encapsulating these girls’ lives when they truly didn’t know them at all. i remember first watching the movie when i was maybe 16 or 17 and writing it off. but when i rewatched it a year ago, despite being even further from the sisters’ ages than i originally was, i actually understood. reading the book somehow feels more real, seeing the story as it is without the added glitz of familiar celebrity faces, a bunch of made up stories constructed so that the boys could feel interesting and connected to the girls, as if they could even for a second understand what it felt like to be them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

mgoodrick's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• 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: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse and Confinement

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

cassbarker's review against another edition

dark tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual harassment

jenny_librarian's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

This is a book about the patriarchal tendency of dehumanizing women. Which should be enough to tell you why I didn’t like it at all.

The writing itself is good, but that’s about the only redeeming quality to this book. The rest is just men being… well, men. I get what the author wanted to achieve with this, but why it needed to be written in this way is beyond me.

I keep hoping the next “classic” I read is going to be better, and I keep being disappointed because those “classics” were written by allocishet white men in a time women were seen as little more than property.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Stalking, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Pregnancy

chaoticweevil's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use and Vomit