Reviews tagging 'War'

Loomade farm. 1984 by George Orwell

4 reviews

brooke_w's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.5

Animal Farm - 5 starts
1984 - 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Torture

Minor: Suicide

muriel__my's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Very challenging reading both Animal farm and 1984. They both touch topics like political oppression, dictatorship in a future (kind of realistic) world. Even though these both works are criticizing socialism and the Sovietic Union, I prefer to see it more as a criticism to the repetitive cycle we, humans part of a society, repeat every time we "look for" a change in the social order. So dark, I liked seeing a different point of view of our society and our behaviour as beings part of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, War, and Classism

msrandomstuff_01's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

About "Animal Farm": I was in shock after reading the last sentence of the book, not gonna lie. Amazing. Read it in one day. 

About "1984": There is only one chapter that I find a bit boring, but I'm still gonna go back and read it again. Also, never felt more strong emotions (not gonna say which one, cause it may be a soft spoiler) while reading a book then after reading this. Specially the 3rd part. My heart stopped beating for some times there. Again, amazing last line. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcohol and War

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, and Stalking

amurray's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, War, and Injury/Injury detail