Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores M. Koch

5 reviews

toroyaguila's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

2.75

Como testimonio de un hombre homosexual en la Cuba castrista me parece muy valioso: hay lujo de detalles de toda la represión brutal de la homofobia de estado. Me deja dudando la falta de matiz del autor sobre las mujeres lesbianas (muy poco mencionadas) y su tendencia a la caricatura de casi todas las personas que le rodean, menos de unos cuantos muy contados.
Y hay un punto en donde parece mentir (y esta no es una novela): la inmensa cantidad de sus encuentros sexuales y las condiciones de muchísimas anecdotas sexuales del autor y de sus conocidos (algunas, muy grotescas).
Para mí lo más valioso de haber escuchado esta autobiografía fue tener una idea sobre sus procesos de escritura en regímenes autoritarios, represivos y conservadores.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, and Murder

bookiemadi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Incest, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Suicide, and Torture

nessiemonster's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.0

Eu não sei. O senhor parece ser extremamente culto, interessante e corajoso. Tendo dito isso, achei bastante estranho a quantidade de sexo descrito no livro. Also, não sei se quero andar de autocarro em Cuba e estou perturbada pela vida sexual do Reinaldo durante a sua infância. Ha. Ha. :S

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Incest, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

rocksonbrocks's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, and Murder

joceraptor's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

there is pretty much every trigger/content warning imaginable in here. the only one that immediately comes to mind and i don't see here is bestiality, which is also pretty early on. check the section below for the rest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Medical content, and Toxic friendship