Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

8 reviews

abissette's review against another edition

challenging mysterious 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

5.0

Fascinating, philosophical, enriching sci fi

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

trailmixraisins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This Ursula K. Le Guin classic is a short and bittersweet parable-like story. She uses vivid and explicit depictions of colonialism in the setting of an alien planet years in the future where humans have developed the technology to travel through space. Selver, an Athshean man, and his society are irrevocably changed after humans settle the planet to harvest wood to be sold on Earth. Though ultimately hopeful, the toll of human violence and hatred on the non-violent society puts its continued existence in jeopardy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

issyharvey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I'm always a fan of Le Guin's writing and will definitely be rereading this piece again and again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcohol

cjlacyhanks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Rape, Xenophobia, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and War

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

A brilliant exploration of violence/ war and its effects. Currently, the only reason it's not 5 stars is bc I personally enjoy books more when I get attached to characters but this book is more idea/theme-focused than trying to get readers to root for the characters. Was in no way a comfortable book to read but that was intended so I'll let it slide. Davidson was quite hateable though, and ended up swearing in annotations quite a bit during his chapters. Will reread for ecolit so I'm looking forward to seeing how my views change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Confinement and Suicide

Davidson POV chapters have very intense misogyny, racism, genocidal inclinations, toxic masculinity & sadism in general.

becksusername's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

Wow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

brothertubber's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, and Xenophobia

hanz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, and Grief