Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

55 reviews

kriziny's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Mental illness, Suicide, Sexual content, Death, and Death of parent

buechergenuss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Terminal illness and Cancer

tomrae1's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Misogyny

nolwenn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is incredible, read it. That's all I have to say

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcoholism

If you're triggered easily by anything about death and mental illness, please be aware and careful when reading this book

anthuriumskies's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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

5.0

the way this book grabbed my heart and dissected the darkest parts of it in two days 😍😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

anotherbookwithtee's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book made me feel very uncomfortable didn’t enjoy the readin experience- but as a whole it’s a very interesting book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

sunny_not's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

3.5

I was going to give this 4 stars but it lost me at

why would he sleep with Reiko as well bro it doesn't add anything to the plot. That's the problem with this book even though I enjoyed it a lot at times in the middle of important events and sad situations people would sleep with each other and tell each other dirty jokes for pages and pages and for no reason. Reiko's back story was almost good with the failing pianist storyline but then it all got ruined for me with the Adult/minor bits. I don't know I just don't think there was any need for that. In Kafka on the shore it was like this as well, I don't know what the whole deal is with this authors books and adult minor content but I really don't like it. Also the misogyny...

I did like the plot mostly, it was depressing, tragic but it had some good lessons and it was quite reflective. Characters were quite interesting and flawed and I'm glad I gave this book a chance after all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Medical content, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexism, and Misogyny

astridrv's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

I liked the prose: it's efficient, sensitive, poetic, natural. There are some scenes, some imagery, that will remain with me like paintings. Otherwise, I did not enjoy any of the characters, the narrator's misogyny made it hard to get through the book, and I am left to feel unsure about the value of the observations about life, death, and mental illness given throughout this tale. I will give it this: both the ending and one specific character arc added a note of mystery that will stay in my head for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Rape, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Terminal illness, and Sexism

mimosakettunen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• 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, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Terminal illness

harrisonfitzgerald's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, and Terminal illness