Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West

20 reviews

matcha_pages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective 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

4.0

I didn't fully understand the mathematical and scientific concepts in the book, but you don't really need to. It's the scientist's descent into madness, obsession, and destruction that's really gripping. It also really helped that the last chapter really tied everything together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Pedophilia

bookwhore07's review against another edition

4.75

i think when men can write really well they give up their ability to write women. also talk to them probably 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

sshabein's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

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

3.0

I didn't love this, but it was definitely an interesting hybrid of a science history book and a novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

girasol_'s review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia

unhallowing's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Medical content, War, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Pedophilia

espringer43's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

2 stars removed for very unnecessary pedophilia that went on for way too long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, and War

lipka's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

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

        Un verdor terrible is... blue, black, and devastating. It's a strange moment: the reality and unreality folded together, nonlinear and noneuclidean. You really could blot out the sun with this book. Hold it just high enough—the shadow it casts is a dark, ancient thing.

        The chapters fling themselves in all directions at breakneck speed. A comet, and a coma. "What wind drags it off with the fury of an angel cast out from heaven, falling, and falling, and falling?" Only the tail end of it can tell.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Medical content, Sexual content, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, Dysphoria, Antisemitism, Drug use, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Rape, Vomit, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Xenophobia

solanum's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-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? It's complicated

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Gore, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Vomit, Death, Excrement, and War

cass_lit's review against another edition

1.5

No. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

a0ri's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

I did not enjoy this as other did. I see where the author is trying to go, but it felt fixated on taking a very certain approach. As the book went on each speculative element seemed to try to top the previous, which also felt awkward.


The final section also felt detached from the first 2/3 of the book, but perhaps that's because I missed something in my desire to finish and be done with it

Spoiler

I really didn't understand why so many of the stories needed to focus the speculative aspects in the scientist being a sexual deviant. It really took away from the impact, especially since I'm one case the scientist was actually a known pedophile, which I would have just dismissed had I not looked up the backstory of each scientist afterward

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: Pedophilia