Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Menschenjagd by Jochen Stremmel, Stephen King, Richard Bachman, Nora Jensen

10 reviews

lindsaybethlyons's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Appreciated the dystopia and general plot. Did not appreciate all of the racist language. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, and Car accident

Minor: Homophobia and Rape

sighclopss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Quick read 3.5⭐

This concept again plays on (as many of Kings works do) the age old "humans are the real monsters" trope. In a totalitarian future, society is kept in check with entertainment of human suffering (not much of a difference from what the 2020's of our current lives have to offer.) I think there's lots of good concepts in this one, and considering it was written over 40 years ago it can be eerie what elements have been prophesied in a way. 

In terms of writing, it's not as waffle-ly as some of King's other works, this one definitely made a good go at an "action" genre, while still having the in-depth complex character thought that I enjoy about King's books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Car accident, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

readingiscool96's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Stalking, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

timmeh's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

proceduralbob's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Racism, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

rhogregoire's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

2.5

 I have pretty strongly mixed feelings on this. I liked the story, but I didn't like the amount of explicit racism in the worldbuilding. It's used as a backdrop for the lower classes, and dialed way up even from where it is today. For a book that's critiquing capitalism and class, I don't think it added anything to the story to have the lower classes so steeped in racism. A generous view would be to say that it's intending to illustrate how the class system is unfair even when the lower classes might be "undesirable" or bigoted people, but that's a pretty elitist and white view of how American class works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

katenovah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Racial slurs, and Vomit

marleen02's review

dark tense

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

zoebill96's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

This book is essentially “hunted” but more extreme. As always I love Stephen king, he always manages to keep me engrossed in the story and he is a magnificent story teller. I appreciate that this book was written in the 1980’s but there was just no need for the amount of racist remarks made - completely ruined the book for me as it didn’t add any depth to the story line at all. I did love the twist at the very end though, I shouldn’t have expected it to be predictable but I was lulled into a false sense of predictions and he did a full 360 on me. I also felt very unnerved about how it was written in 1983, but set in 2025 and referring to the past being 2020/2002/1997 - the world I am literally living in now - mind = blown