Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Aqueles que abandonam Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

95 reviews

corky12's review against another edition

dark sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

hapikohw's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

 A simple five pages can be so rich, have so many intertexual companions, spark so many thoughts... Le Guin, you are THAT writer!

Utopia is possible, pleasure can exist without pain giving it worth - we just can't imagine it yet. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, and Abandonment

solid_circle's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

martyrbat's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Excrement, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

ominousspectre's review against another edition

5.0

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

aylas_journey's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

This story is going to stick with me/haunt me forever. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment

emfass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

An absolute emotional wallop of a short story. What does utopia/a good life cost, and are we willing to pay that cost? What do we do, who are we, when we've been shown the dark underbelly of our world?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content and Excrement

shapeshiftwithme's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

nekoshka's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

kaz_brekkerrr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Violence