Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

13 reviews

13octopus's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Sexism

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Pedophilia, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Blood, and War

strabbyfieldz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

this book is just experiencing a constant sensation of falling, endlessly, right up until the end when Dazai slaps you in the face. a book that I feared to put down because halting the fall might lead me to return to rationality. its hard to rate, but the experience I had reading it was like very few other books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Infidelity

Moderate: Rape, Misogyny, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Ableism

Minor: Medical content, Child abuse, and Death of parent

scum's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

It was written well, but a majority of it is just misogynistic. Since a lot of folks consider this a semi-autobiography, you have to wonder a lot about the author outside of whats already known, and none of the wondering leads to good roads...

A good chunk of this sets him up to be an unreliable narrator, given the types of thoughts he has about himself compared to what the people in his life say about him. He paints himself to be horrible, he does a lot of awful things, and yet the other characters are found saying he's not. While that may be the point of the story, it was still hard to push through with the rape and awful thoughts towards women. To be blunt, it reeks of '2edgy4me' vibes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Ableism