Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

8 reviews

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

inkandbooksforever's review against another edition

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

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Drug use, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, War, Self harm, Gore, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Colonisation, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

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

phoebewerling's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, War, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Body horror, and Death

rachelt18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

this book was amazing. Best book I've read for school by far. The only think I didn't like was that the 'things they carried' motif kind of stopped halfway through the book and he started going into a whole different topic for the rest of the book. But other than that I thought the writing was amazing. The amount of thought Tim O'brien put into this book was unreal, and I loved how he incorporated his writing process into the book. The stories were crazy and unexpected it was so fun to read. I highly recommend reading this book if you want something fun, but also beautifully written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, Racial slurs, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use, Sexism, and Misogyny

allyssah's review

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror and Xenophobia

abald0204's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Racism

Minor: Violence, Suicide, Sexism, Gore, Gaslighting, Drug use, Blood, Body horror, and Alcohol

beetsnotbombs's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Body horror, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia