Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

51 reviews

charlottan's review against another edition

The pedophilia in this book is IMMENSE. I cannot imagine how it passed through whatever editing there was with all of the creepiness intact. No doubt it was even worse before editing. Shudder to think of it in that form. Shudder to think of it in its final form. The main character has a 17 year old girl wear an outfit that shows off her breasts in a move entirely unrelated to the plot. This didn't need to be here. A LOT of this didn't need to be here. I hate Murakami with all my heart after reading this. He has made a (parasocial) enemy for life with this book. I cannot believe this exists and is as popular as it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

persephone12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pedophilia

destroycilantro's review against another edition

mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.0

Started reading this book and couldn’t put it down and then the plot got really slow and I put it up on a shelf and forgot about it for about 3 years. Finally finished it and I must say I have a million criticisms of this book. At the very least it was poetic to read the ending of this book as the characters narratively return the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

bites_of_books's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.25

This one was a let down... 

Murakami can write really beautiful passages but this 1000+ book was just way too long and about 40% of it was just boring descriptions of mundane things. I do enjoy it when an author takes care to describe certain details but this was just too much.

We follow Aomame, a young woman who climbs down a staircase off a freeway and finds herself in a seemingly different world from her own. On the other hand we also follow Tengo, a young man who is tasked with ghostwriting a novel for a teenage girl by his editor. Aomame and Tengo live different lives and the first Book in this novel is spent trying to figure out how they fit together.

The themes explored in this book go from loneliness, religion, the power of literature, broken family dynamics, and more. Some of it did feel visceral and real, but others were just explored over repetitive and overdone writing. 

Then there are all the descriptions of women and anyone who isn't perfectly attractive in the author's eyes... it was just awful. The mysoginy was rampant throughout as well as deeply uncomfortable descriptions of certain intimate encounters that left me feeling like chucking the book in a corner and going for a walk. 

I do not recommend this novel, it's not magical realism in my eyes, it's fantasy/sci-fi. It's entirely way too long for what it is and it's not enjoyable in the least. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Rape, Abandonment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Animal death, Confinement, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, and Lesbophobia

thepirsky's review against another edition

Never ending sexual situations, especially abuse to children

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Animal death, Rape, Sexual content, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

erosencrantz's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Suicide

reags03's review against another edition

Normally I really enjoy long books with lots of random details about the characters' lives. But this one...it was just too slow paced for me. I didn't like how a lot of the book involved sex with young girls - it seemed incredibly unnecessary and if there was a "point" or "lesson" that the author was trying to make with it, I didn't get it and I think there are much better ways of going about it. Even the main male narrator - he seemed like such a good person until he started describing a young girl's chest. Very off putting for me, and combined with the pace, it quickly lost my attention when I picked up another book. I was pretty disappointed, especially since I got super deep into the book (almost finished book 2, but based on the other reviews, I'm not missing much by stopping). There were so many things that the book offered - a female assassin, a divided cult, a mysterious young author, a fantasy twist with the Little People. But all of it couldn't seem to come together and form a compelling story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Rape

csolan's review against another edition

I have been reading this book for 2 years and am still less than halfway through (my edition has 1318 pages?). Everyone touted it as a masterpiece but I have never read such a slow book where I did not care about the characters at all. I give up; life is too short.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Pedophilia

rafagina's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

Slow, repetitive and predictable. On top of that, every female character is written either in cringe and belittling ways or downright horrendously misogynistic. Every single chapter there are gratuitous sexual descriptions and abusive episodes happening that add nothing to the story. If this is Murakami I don't know why people recommended it so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Murder, Abandonment, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Violence

mxpringle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was so so good in every way except one, and would have been 5 stars except for the sheer misogyny in describing every female character's breasts and

the horribly disturbing adult/minor relationship and blatant pedophilia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Gore