Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

4 reviews

kristapeters's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Outing, Cursing, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

linneak's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Addiction, Blood, Alcoholism, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Deportation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Confinement

zefancifulreader's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

This book always calls to my dark sense of humour, it’s absurdity is so fun to experience.
This book is basically 100+ years of social drinking with vodka. Skål!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Deportation, Excrement, Gun violence, War, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Torture, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Rape, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Murder, and Racism

kshertz's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

It’s definitely such an interesting book. I love a curmudgeon so much but this curmudgeon is basically sociopathic. It’s like if Forrest Gump was a sociopath. He basically goes into every historical event and is the reason that terrible things have happened. That made it a hard book to read. I wasn’t rooting for the 100 year old. I just wanted him to die. Which didn’t make the book all that exciting for me to want to pick up all the time. It was kind of a slow reader for that reason.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Murder, Alcoholism, War, Violence, Misogyny, Death, and Colonisation