Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

12 reviews

yanskeedoodle's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Violence, Self harm, Death, Suicide, War, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, and Sexual violence

strange_abalone's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I do not understand the point of Jonathan’s grandfathers sexual exploits becoming such a focal point in the latter half of the book, it was so distracting from the deeper parts of the story that I have lost all interest in the parts I did enjoy in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, War, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

alyssatuininga's review

challenging medium-paced

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

1.0

This book is absolutely horrible. Save your money and time and.read something else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, War, Sexual assault, and Violence

lambclown's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, Suicide, Genocide, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Pedophilia

bluebear1's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, War, Genocide, Murder, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Rape, and Domestic abuse

illgiveyouahint's review

challenging dark medium-paced

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

The book is really hard to get into, but I was willing to give it a chance, however when the author started describing

how all the men in the village wanted to fuck the 14-year old girl

I started to really hate parts of the book. Then he continued with

talking at lengths about how all the women wanted to fuck that 10 year old boy with his dead arm

and just WTF man. Who wants to read that? Why would I want to read that, and why did you put so much focus on that. I think there were parts that were good. When we got to the topic of the war itself, it was good, but just I couldn't enjoy the book because of all of THAT. So yeah. In the end, I was pushing myself to finish it faster just so I can get it over with and focus on something more enjoyable.
I'm also questioning if I actually want the book at my home, or if I'll try to sell it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, War, Child death, Violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Antisemitism, Suicide, Rape, Infidelity, and Genocide

_yumitsang_'s review

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Rape, Hate crime, Violence, Grief, Suicide, War, and Xenophobia

leilorenzo's review

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

There's one trigger warning after the next. They might not (always) be described in perfect detail, but they are there. I tried my best to include them all.

 

The back and forth narration (it took me an embarrassingly long time to notice the chapter title’s format, oops) was a great tool.  The characters were left vulnerable to the reader thanks to being vulnerable to each other in their correspondence. 

I found SO many gems throughout it that practically every page has some annotation.

It is a strong punch delivered so beautifully that you don’t realize it until the book's last third.

The use of language was crafted just right, entwining humour with tragedy, and laughter amidst the terror. 

It is now proudly resting on my favourite’s shelf.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, War, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Blood, Sexual assault, Death, Alcoholism, Xenophobia, and Genocide

Minor: Vomit, Violence, Police brutality, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

yaarit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

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

4.0

This is a heartbreaking, beautifully written book. The form is playful and experimental at times, the character voices exquisitely developed, the plot and character development are really emotional and beautiful.

I would have given it 5 stars if it weren't for all the unnecessary pedophilia peppered through the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Antisemitism, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Torture, Hate crime, and Genocide

e_cobbe's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Violence