Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

14 reviews

kit_carmichael's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Misogyny, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and War

leahfigiel's review against another edition

reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

eli_jw's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-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

2.5

I can see why this book is held as a classic, but for me it had just about everything I hate in a novel. I finished it but I greatly considered not doing so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Terminal illness, War, Racial slurs, and Homophobia

autiquarian's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

I felt that this was a perfectly entertaining book, well-written too, but just cannot understand why it’s labelled by critics as ‘the Oxford novel’; I fortunately did not read it expecting a campus novel, but if you are I would put it aside unless you also enjoy the novel’s other, more prevalent, themes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

Moderate: War

Minor: Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Homophobia

felidmostfoul's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Infidelity

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Homophobia and War

nohousekey's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: War

sophiemundy13's review

slow-paced

3.25

bit exciting in the middle

Spoiler

an affair (!!)

but the rest of it was just a bit of a slog, but i guess i'm glad i read it?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Minor: Suicide

mmefish's review against another edition

reflective slow-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

2.0

I was going to give this book 3.5 starts but then part 3 happened. Ugh. How can I even explain my frustration without ranting? In short, characters’ personalities do 180; people cheat and divorce and then suddenly everyone converts to Catholicism. Sebastian (and their romance with MC) gets completely forgotten, and it simply  feels like you’re reading a completely different book. What was the point? I don’t know but I want my wasted hours back.

“I regard writing not as investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. I have no technical physiological interest. It is drama, speech and events that interest me.” – E. Waugh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Infidelity

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

odrib's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Classism

Minor: Antisemitism, Homophobia, Infertility, Racial slurs, and Racism

eliza_flamingo1's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

I would die for Sebastian Flyte 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Racial slurs