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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i don’t know what i just read, it was interesting but at the same time went over my head
reflective
sad
fast-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
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
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
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i absolutely adore dazai. i love love, LOVE his prose. it’s stunning, raw and mesmerizing. there’s no one that can embody emotions of deprivation and depression as well as he can. i been slowly tackling his backlogs after reading no longer human two times last year— definitely another author that i want to read every single work of.
it's a good book, but i'm not sure how to feel about it. it definitely has a beautiful but quite tragic story, and I relate to kazuko on a mild level (her love and relationship with her mother really had me clutching my heart, her relationship with naoji was... too similar with my own siblings to my liking; i annotated the hell out of my copy of the book; i cried over certain parts of the book, especially when it involved the mother; but at the end, i just felt... empty.
i had just finished another book which was much more lighthearted and modern than this, and i suppose i didn't get the same hard-hitting feeling since i was still riding out my feelings from my previous read. + i don't think i understood much of the metaphors and the symbolisms used in this book, but i just have a feeling that it's deep. maybe i'm not that literate to understand any of it just yet... ^^; but i liked reading it regardless!
i had just finished another book which was much more lighthearted and modern than this, and i suppose i didn't get the same hard-hitting feeling since i was still riding out my feelings from my previous read. + i don't think i understood much of the metaphors and the symbolisms used in this book, but i just have a feeling that it's deep. maybe i'm not that literate to understand any of it just yet... ^^; but i liked reading it regardless!
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes