Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo by Ken Kesey

38 reviews

lidia7's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

disappointing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Dementia, and Alcohol

nooni56's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide

audreylee's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Racism

lizkocher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, Dementia, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexual harassment, and War

goldenslug's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

asmodeous's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Most of the time when I connect with a book I feel like I leave a piece of my soul with it when I finish. This book I feel like I got a new piece, it is not a piece that I necessarily want but this book still gave it to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Gaslighting

Minor: Misogyny, Self harm, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

ricardo_sb's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing and Racial slurs

kcheyne's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

shoshin's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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

3.5

Enjoyable, but loses points for racism, ableism, and misogyny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicide

msorce's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I struggle with defining my overall opinion of this book. It is equally great and terrible.
The theme of emasculation is, frankly too much of a major theme to allow me to say I completely liked the book. I can give some things a pass because of the year the book was written, but it was just too much of a main theme to overlook. It is horribly sexist and constantly eludes to society being harmed by women demasculating men and not allowing them to be the true manly men they should be allowed to be. Terrible even for the time it was written.
The other major theme is about society forcing you to be what they want you to be and eliminating all that makes someone unique and different. That theme is something I enjoy.
It is also very humorous, something I think the movie missed the mark on.
Overall it's so-so. It was funny and had good symbolism of society destroying individualism, but the major sexist theme running through the book made it extremely unenjoyable as well. I would recommend reading it to form your own opinion even if I can't say it was a good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, and Forced institutionalization