Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille

6 reviews

tcgarback's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 
Critical Score: B
Personal Score: C+
Reading Experience: 📘📘📘(3/5)

Grabbed my attention at the start and the end, lost me in the middle. Altogether too involved in its own symbolism and musings on agony and pleasure. But this is still a bomb of immorality that is as courageous as it is sleazy—as it’s meant to be, so really, they’re the same thing here.

This is fascinating to me as a piece of transgressive literature, but it’s not something that at all moved me or, given the stuff I’ve read in recent years, shocked me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Rape, Torture, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Death, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

kattrent's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

1.25

Wtf did I just read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Murder

yutrobog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Injury/injury detail, Sexism, Cursing, Death, Grief, Torture, Violence, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicide, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

samuelh2020's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Excrement, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

urlocalsleepparalysisdemon's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

0.25

I wish that I didn't read this. I wish that it made me feel any other way than vaguely uncomfortable. I'm not disgusted or disturbed because at some point my eyes just glazed over and I pushed through the reading just so I can delete the book off of my phone, knowing I was done with it forever. 

I hate every single person who's given this four or five stars because I think they're annoying and probably don't get invited to parties. Fuck you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Suicide, Vomit, Death, Gore, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Violence, Addiction, Child death, and Cursing

elaichipod's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.5

I read this book because I read that Bjork's "Venus as a Boy" music video was inspired by it on Genius. I was shocked for a majority of the book and I might just regret reading it. But when I think about "Venus as a Boy," I can see how the main character is Venus. Like a god, he does as he pleases sexually and has this omnipotent power, at least to himself. He and Simone commit all these sex-based crimes with the audacity of a god. I think as a literary work, it is incredibly depraved and there's a lot of "primitive" ideas. I had to stop reading a couple times and just think about what my eyes and brain just perceived.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture