Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

34 reviews

meixymei's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and War

Moderate: Grief, Cursing, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Drug use and Suicide

deathmetalheron's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, War, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Addiction, Blood, and Racism

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Hate crime, Bullying, Colonisation, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Racial slurs

rhonifoni's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Minor: Cancer, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Bullying

bribree's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

km4reading's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

I read this for my English class so I honestly wasn’t expecting much, but I really enjoyed it. It is an interesting style of writing but I loved it. The way that Tim O’Brien shares his experiences through storytelling paints such a vivid picture and really allows you to feel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Gore, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

belovedsnail's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

Probably not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

brotestantethic's review

challenging emotional informative 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? No

5.0

(Reread.) I read this mainly because I knew I wanted a good book, and I wanted to know if it’s held up since I was 17. It has. O’Brien has an imaginative and unique literary voice that sticks with you and influences the way you see the world. His magical realism—both hidden and self aware, to the point where you’ll never know where he’s going—makes this one of the most completing reads of all time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, War, and Gun violence

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racial slurs, and Animal cruelty

grapesoda913's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and War

alliekaye23's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I know cruelty was a part of the Vietnam war, but one particular chapter featured extremely unwarranted violence against an innocent, and it was very hard to read. It got its point across though, absolutely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Drug use, Excrement, Torture, Cancer, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Gun violence, Grief, Terminal illness, and Violence

elizabethstrachan's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I read this in high school, but I barely remembered anything besides how I felt afterward. Vietnam veterans weren't treated well when they got home, and this book gives an idea of all they went through over there. I mean, they were barely grown up and drafted into a war that killed a ton of people. Some of the stuff from the book I didn't support.

The poor baby buffalo didn't deserve to be tortured just because the guy's friend died. I felt for him, but it doesn't excuse torturing a helpless animal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, War, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Death