Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

It, by Stephen King

2 reviews

stevedr0626's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, and Bullying

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Misogyny, and Racism

kenna11's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

So many thoughts and so little space to write them. The book was well written and the plot was interesting enough that I spent 45 hours of my life listening to the audiobook. I could have done without the slurs every other page, descriptions of a child’s nipples, and other completely unnecessary information. Without all of these things I would give it a solid 5 but it just made me so uncomfortable to read (and not in the way I think he meant it to). I’m basically going to have to select every trigger warning on the list for this review 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence