Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

29 reviews

avasbookmark's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense slow-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: Abandonment, Vomit, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Death, and Medical trauma

infusedchai's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing tense slow-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

4.0

okay this play is a BEAST. read this for class and i wow i was blown away. i need to see this live the mini series is not enough for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lorel773's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Excrement, Addiction, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Grief

kjzilke's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

1.25

This book just really isn’t my cup of tea. It took a lot of willpower to finish it. The saving grace was phenomenal voice acting, but otherwise it was delirious and I didn’t get anything out of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

lambclown's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Addiction, Chronic illness, Racial slurs, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Religious bigotry, and Death

daralexandria's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Terminal illness, Death, and Homophobia

Minor: Antisemitism

sebastianflynn's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Chronic illness, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Body horror, and Gore

pomegranatepanacea's review

emotional

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

5.0

read Millenium Approaches for a class and read Perestroika in my free time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racism, Antisemitism, and Racial slurs

e_asw_97's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug use

marthadude's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolute masterpiece. Is perhaps one of the best fictional characters (along with Belize) and Louis is one of the worst.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Drug use, Grief, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Addiction, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Outing