Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Running Man by Stephen King

18 reviews

_mack_jack_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

if it weren’t for the racism, homophobia, and misogyny this book would get 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Rape and Vomit

proceduralbob's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Racism, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

rhogregoire's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

 I have pretty strongly mixed feelings on this. I liked the story, but I didn't like the amount of explicit racism in the worldbuilding. It's used as a backdrop for the lower classes, and dialed way up even from where it is today. For a book that's critiquing capitalism and class, I don't think it added anything to the story to have the lower classes so steeped in racism. A generous view would be to say that it's intending to illustrate how the class system is unfair even when the lower classes might be "undesirable" or bigoted people, but that's a pretty elitist and white view of how American class works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Racial slurs, and Vomit

ripxreads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Terminal illness

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

zoebill96's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

This book is essentially “hunted” but more extreme. As always I love Stephen king, he always manages to keep me engrossed in the story and he is a magnificent story teller. I appreciate that this book was written in the 1980’s but there was just no need for the amount of racist remarks made - completely ruined the book for me as it didn’t add any depth to the story line at all. I did love the twist at the very end though, I shouldn’t have expected it to be predictable but I was lulled into a false sense of predictions and he did a full 360 on me. I also felt very unnerved about how it was written in 1983, but set in 2025 and referring to the past being 2020/2002/1997 - the world I am literally living in now - mind = blown

luisaaaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

lowkey just a more mature hunger games - good introduction to stephen king for sure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Gore