Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

22 reviews

birdinanairport's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Classism

buggjuicce's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

castlerocktronix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

theasdertt's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, and War

Moderate: Mental illness and Racial slurs

yaelm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

Good though maddening, hated it and everyone in it as much as I understand it’s a good literary work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, and Murder

mmcloe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Oh my god

I'm going to have to come back later and review this more fully after I have more time to digest everything. I don't know how to rate something like this.

A diary of total breakdown - academic, personal, artistic, legal, moral, discursive collapse of modern society. There's some respite and hope in huddling together and embracing the small pleasures of the senses, but not a ton. I'm reminded a lot of Delany's Dhalgren and Anzaldua's Borderlands. I'm left facing the ghost of Christmas future; is this a picture of what will be, or what may be? 

Also all the true crime podcast listeners need to read this, especially the part about the crimes (one of the only sections of a novel I had to put down entirely). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and War

loryyyy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

emi98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

THIS WAS SO INSANE I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD GET THROUGH IT. I loved some parts and others I literally just went (static noise). I thought the prose was great and the character cast is next level interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, and War

camz's review against another edition

slow-paced

1.5

Lo pude haber disfrutado hace 5 años, pero en este pudo de mi vida la única razón por la que lo terminé es para quitarlo de mi lista de pendientes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Xenophobia

themysteriouserk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Though it’s often considered unfinished due to Bolaño’s death, and though it’s so often found on the shelves of people who just want to look like they’re smarter than you, it’s in my opinion one of the greatest novels ever written. Its often absolutely repulsive subject matter definitely means it’s not a book for everyone, but also makes the terror of imperialism and the complicity of ordinary people in terrible violence feel real and close in a way few other books manage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and War