Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

161 reviews

hazelambers's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

isaa's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.25

Watanabe es un pinche misógino. Murakami definitivamente es un misógino. La historia de Reiko me traumo y tuve que dejar de leer el libro por 2 meses. Comoquiera tiene partes muy buenas, escritas muy bonito y entiendo porque a la gente les gusta tanto este libro.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Death, Sexual violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, and Sexism

Una señora 19 años mayor que el protagonista describe como una niña de 14 años la violo y le dice que es lesbiana. La señora describe en detalle el cuerpo de la niña.

athomehangel's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Rape

bananaza55's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

 highly advise reading trigger warnings prior.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Death, and Rape

matiisanchez's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Mental illness, Suicide, Sexism, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Grief, Alcohol, Violence, Sexual content, and Pedophilia

jazsever's review against another edition

dark sad medium-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship

wonkots42's review against another edition

0.75

Murakami definitely wrote this with one hand. Wtf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

Moderate: Misogyny and Rape

huunnybeee_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Rape, Suicide, and Grief

rocar's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

would be five but some descriptions of women are just so obviously written by a man in the 80s 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

samchase112's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

Media — especially books and movies — about grief have hit me quite hard, affected me a lot, in the past year, and this novel is absolutely no exception. Intimate, nostalgic, it's a dreamy exploration of living and living with death. I'm not quite sure how exactly I feel about it, but I know that I do feel because of it. I've pasted some quotes below that I couldn't help dog-earing, but beyond that there's nothing more to say.

Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life… Death exists — in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table — and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit to forget that.

I miss you awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.

And I'm just going to keep on getting stronger. I'm going to mature. I'm going to be an adult. Because that's what I have to do. I always used to think I'd like to stay seventeen or eighteen if I could. But not anymore. I'm not a teenager anymore. I've got a sense of responsibility now. I'm not the same guy I was when we used to hang out together. I'm twenty now. And I have to pay the price to go on living.

By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn.

What I learned from Naoko's death was this:

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Death, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Vomit, Rape, and Medical content