Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

James by Percival Everett

20 reviews

grebegirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I have no doubt in my mind that this book will be considered a classic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Gun violence, Rape, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

asienerbrown's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Violence and Trafficking

Minor: War

smileymiley550's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

bookb1itch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Timing!  This arrived on my final day of isolation with covid, so I got straight into it - when I could wrestle it away from my son!  Such intelligent commentary about race.  I'm now looking for Everett's back-catalogue, starting with Erasure, because I adored the film version "American Fiction".  It is so believably written, BUT I don't want to believe that African-Americans ever lived with this level of bigotry and mistrust.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Slavery, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, and Rape

Minor: War

foresturken's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War

mrsmoy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

franklola's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Physical abuse, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

asims723's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Death, Torture, and Death of parent

bibliomich's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It is not often that my expectations are *this* high before I even begin reading a book, and it’s even rarer that the actual book far exceeds those expectations, so please listen to me when I say that everyone should (/needs to) read Percival Everett’s James.

This novel is brilliant for so many reasons, but I was mostly impressed by the way it takes a well-known classic (one that I read in middle school and high school and again in college) and not only tells the same story from a different perspective, but shows you how the story was actually never the story we thought it was in the first place. Everett directly challenges assumptions about language, adventure vs. survival, and what it means to be “free” as a Black person in the mid-1800s. While you may recognize many of the characters and scenes from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book truly shines when Everett deviates from the original novel.

Thank you so much to Libro.fm for including this as an educator ALC this month.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, and Murder