Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

54 reviews

arf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

accidentalover's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

carmeenhf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse

dbuoih's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

Funny. And very misogynistic but I would juxtapose it to Mishima's Life For Sale, a book I recently read that was rife with heroic displays of sexism and insecure men competing with one another. The misogyny in No Longer Human is more a symptom of the character's illness, and not displayed as a great, masculine quality to have. 

Accurate to the experience of a deep suffering. When seen from an aerial view, many of these passages are hyperbolic. Hilariously so. Experiencing such despair that everything is a slog, it becomes a humorous miserable skit with oneself.
I don’t believe Ito’s adaptation did it justice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Sexual assault, and Sexual content