Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

11 reviews

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Medical content

thimbler's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

caittothelin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, and Murder

jfuel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.

After adjusting to the style, I found this to be an engrossing and beautiful novel. While much of it has a somewhat brooding tone, there are sections that were laugh out loud funny. One of my favorite parts is John Grady eating his lunch under the tree with the Mexican kids.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Medical trauma

capra's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Police brutality

pbender's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Gun violence

scytheria's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture

emmonsannae's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I really enjoyed this one! John Grady Cole is such an excellent and endearing American protagonist. The characters are beautifully done (as always), and while John Grady’s coming of age is pretty dark, the preservation of his morality and determination gives this novel a concrete hopefulness many of C.M.’s other books lack. The breathtaking prose describing a landscape and a world that even for John Grady is already passing away makes this a bittersweet love letter to the old American Southwest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

dee_dreams's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

michaelferlazzo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was a great book, a bit different from his other works, but it still packs a great story, it takes a bit of time to get into, but, after part 1, the pace picks up to a comfortable speed. The characters felt like real people, and he really takes his time to make every character fully fleshed out. It took about 70 pages for me to get used to the fact that there are no quotation marks, but other than that I have no qualms

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence