Book Trigger Warnings

[Nearly Sane]

A site to help stop you reading books that might upset you. JfC!


https://booktriggerwarnings.com/index.php?title=Welcome

[Aruntraveller]

Goodness me this is stupid.

Every book I read has a trigger in it.

[jeremyp]

A site to help stop you reading books that might upset you. JfC!


https://booktriggerwarnings.com/index.php?title=Welcome

I looked up my favourite Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and I was quite surprised to find no mention of anti-semitism (there is one definitely antisemitic line but I'm not sure if it's in the voice of Christie or one of the characters). Similarly, the Mysterious Affair at Styles: suspicion falls on a character simply because he is Jewish. Reassuringly though, murder is considered a trigger in both books.

[jeremyp]

Goodness me this is stupid.

Every book I read has a trigger in it.

It might be argued that, if you aren't triggered in some way by a book, it isn't very good.

There isn't even an entry for Lord of the Rings but if there were, I would put down "extreme tedium" as a trigger.

[Outrider]

Goodness me this is stupid.

Like, I hope, you, I don't feel the need to avoid depictions of certain activities or events, as I don't have anything that affects me that way.  Rather than think of people who are unfortunately in those situations as 'stupid', I just find myself grateful.

O.

[SteveH]

Useful list if you want to find some really juicy reading!

[Nearly Sane]

Goodness me this is stupid.

Every book I read has a trigger in it.

I tried searching on the Bible but all that came up was The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, which I would recommend, for character death, and child death. And Fahrenheit 451 for Bible burning.


Hmmm....

[Nearly Sane]

It might be argued that, if you aren't triggered in some way by a book, it isn't very good.

There isn't even an entry for Lord of the Rings but if there were, I would put down "extreme tedium" as a trigger.

Don't worry it's there split into the three books. Doesn't have the tedium warning though. The Hobbit is in for spiders, and war.

[Nearly Sane]

Looking at the list of possible trigger warnings, it's a bit shite. It doesn't even have clowns on it.

[SteveH]

Don't worry it's there split into the three books. Doesn't have the tedium warning though. The Hobbit is in for spiders, and war.

LotR can be accused of racism, in that whole species are good, and other whole species are evil, rather than individuals being somewhere on the good-evil spectrum, all mixed up regardless of species (for which read race). I still think it's great, in spite of that, and some major literary faults.

[Udayana]

LotR can be accused of racism, in that whole species are good, and other whole species are evil, rather than individuals being somewhere on the good-evil spectrum, all mixed up regardless of species (for which read race). I still think it's great, in spite of that, and some major literary faults.

Tolkein's views were anti-racist, however the LotR books are just packed with racist tropes.  It just goes to show how easy it is to get things wrong, even go backwards. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_and_race

[jeremyp]

Tolkein's views were anti-racist, however the LotR books are just packed with racist tropes.  It just goes to show how easy it is to get things wrong, even go backwards. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_and_race

I have to say that, reading the wiki page, it looks like a case of people reading stuff into Tolkien that they want to be there but isn't.

Apart from the "West good, East bad" trope which is a common trope in fantasy novels and comes (IMO) from the geopolitical situation in the 20th century. For Britain and its allies, the bad guys were in the East.