Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

True Grit by Charles Portis

9 reviews

meremeth's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

5.0

Mattie is the best, this book is so much fun it's no wonder they made two movies out of it
Great humour, fun plot, colourful characters! It's got it all! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, and Ableism

parnianmor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

reverie_and_books's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-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? No

4.0

In the 1870s a 14 year-old girl named Mattie Ross from Arkansas is on a manhunt to avenge her father. Together with Rooster Cogburn, a man with true grit, and a ranger, she sets out into wilder territories. 

Politics aside, this was a great, fun read! This narration style and PoV are somewhat unique. Mattie is strong-headed and focused on a single mission. She fights to be taken seriously. And I don’t think it‘s a spoiler saying: she succeeds. 

»People do not give it credence that a four-teen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.« 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, and Gun violence

_cecilie_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

If anyone on this here plane has true grit it's Mattie Ross and I'm utterly charmed by her. She is just so - for lack of a more weighty word - cool. 

And this novel was so gripping precisely because it captured her voice so very well: Mattie is a fourteen-year-old farm girl, who at times reads both more mature and more naive than her age suggests. This makes her even more believable as a teenaged girl who has more responsebility than someone her age should have but who handles it like an ranger would a defiant pony. And while I was told that she seeks revenge for her father's death, I think a better word would be retribution. She doesn't want to shoot the scoundrel Tom Chaney herself, that wouldn't be right after all, but she wants to make absolutely sure that justice will be done. 

Throw in some rooster, beef and horse and you've got a full course literary meal. Excuse the puns, of course the side characters are also great in their own right. At times dry, otherwise boozy, (un)intentionally hilarious and trigger-happy Rooster and LaBoeuf complete the best wild west novel I will ever read. This might be the perfect story, snake-pits and all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: War, Racism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexism, Addiction, and Alcohol

slahlum's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Gun violence, and Murder

saracino's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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: Violence, Gun violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Animal death

jemmers's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

great, quick read! horses and cowboys! Marshal Rooster Cogburn is a problematic but loveable fave. I love when he holds the reins in his mouth and shoots with a gun in each hand. (expected amount of racism and misogyny for the era and genre.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Racism, Colonisation, Police brutality, and Slavery

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amycam's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Racism, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

jmtinsd_58's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.75

The violence was jarring. Mattie Ross is an unbelievable spunky character. Wonderful portrayal of the roughness of life on the frontier. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

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