Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima

20 reviews

angela_iseli's review

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Sexism, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

x_tora's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

sofipitch's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

4.0

Mixed thoughts on this one, overall I would say it's fun nihilism and some of the ways it's depicted, really hit home---the way it's a cup on your desk you sometimes forget is there but cannot remove. However this also included a ton of misogyny, minimum of 4 women die for this guy's mediocre dick, and this book also contains many other fairly conservative beliefs such as a general distain for hippies and drug users ("You don't know what real suffering is" kind of argument). Would probably read again in a few years though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence and Suicide attempt

applesodaperson's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

This book was hilarious and absurd. Such a wild premise. It definitely treats suicide in the most casual way possible, which I can see being a turn off for some readers. It was definitely entertaining, but I do have to rate it lower because of its portrayal of women. Literally every female character is only there to be constantly sexualized or dismissed as silly and crazy. There really isn’t a female character that isn’t throwing themselves at the main character. This really bugged me, and if this wasn’t present, I would have rated it a lot higher.
Listened to on Libby.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Sexual content

Moderate: Murder

cheezit's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

ntwkluvr's review against another edition

funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

_tabby_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

"Life for sale" is an incredibly reflective dive into attitudes and feelings towards the complicated topic of death. The main character makes his values and interpretations of death very clear from the beginning but its interesting to follow him and see how he responds to other people with similar or different views. He appears almost judgemental to those who value life or are scared of death which makes him a bit difficult to love (since he's so 2 dimensional and factual so far as his personality is concerned) but the focus isn't meant to be on his loveability so that isn't a bad factor at all.
This book came to me at a time in my life where death and existentialism was very present so it was very interesting to see how this book represented a life surrounded (almost obssesed) by those topics
Can't wait to read more of Mishima's work as I have quite a few of his books lined up next

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

jenna_rren86's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

This book started felt like short stories that were only somewhat contracted until about the last quarter when it became more tense. It was mostly lighthearted in a dark-humor way throughout

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content

burnoutbooks's review

dark reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

exquisite, horrifying, funny

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

kavarnistka's review against another edition

mysterious 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: Suicide attempt