Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Misery by Stephen King

104 reviews

lowkeydivine's review against another edition

dark tense 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

3.5

I enjoyed it until the use of the n word

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

eve81's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

brutishleek49_'s review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

mostly_present's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racial slurs, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Rape

hannavaistila's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Medical content, and Kidnapping

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

philomath1983's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Racism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racial slurs and Suicidal thoughts

clichemarker's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Not too bad, heck, I'd say it's pretty darn good.
Of course, most of King's books are written well, and the characters have lots of depth. The story never felt like it was dragging, and any slow bits were purposeful. Even though you hate Annie, you also kind of love her. 

My one and only qualm was the use of the N word. It was super out of place, and said by a character who hates swearing more than she hates murder. So why is she saying slurs? Seemed a bit weird. Like he put it in just cause he could.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Racial slurs

hocuscrocus's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

I have such a love/hate relationship with Stephen King's work. This one is by far the best I've ever read. It's perfectly dreadful, and even though I'd seen the film, I still found myself nervous as to what was going to happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs and Car accident

Minor: Rape

tommy_boi's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape