Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

6 reviews

nerdkitten's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Gun violence, Murder, Alcohol, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, War, Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Minor: Sexism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

_pitpat's review

dark funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Cultural appropriation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Xenophobia, and Violence

mandi_lea's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Racial slurs, Genocide, Colonisation, Animal death, Murder, Violence, and Death

frankynstein's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Misogyny and Genocide

Minor: War, Violence, and Toxic relationship

emmariana97's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, and Gun violence

val_reads's review

ABSOLUTELY HATED THIS BOOK, its the first book i dont finish, and I read books i dont like  on principle. SLOW pace, just when I thought we were getting somewhere everything went downhill, use of racial slurs and and couldnt get the point of the book. Ray, you disappoint me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, Torture, and Xenophobia