Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

10 reviews

moonlightreads007's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

This one was a really fun read! I love how the main character decides to just climb out of the window and disappear into a new life he chooses for himself. It was a very action-packed, adventurous type of book. I really liked how the author tied historical events into the book and added their own personal twist to them by involving the characters in the development of world history. The characters do many ethically questionable things at times, but they're so likeable that you can't help but to cheer for them.

The part where they lie about the chronological order of events and about what actually happened was especially entertaining. I love how they all get mostly happy endings; it goes to show that people can create new lives and realities for themselves at any age, and that it's never too late to have fun adventures and to do all the things you want to do.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes themes of adventure, historical fiction, situational irony and friendships in books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, War, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

smwipf's review against another edition

The style of story was hard for me to follow, somewhat dark/uncomfortable. Not my style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Kidnapping

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

ran_sophia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The book is perfectly written from beginning to end. Listening to the audiobook was a great choice, as it is excellently narrated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, War, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Death of parent

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Murder, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Blood, Car accident, Colonisation, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Racism, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Gun violence

bethanstanleyy's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, and War

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Car accident

leahhartjacobs's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

It’s quite a fun lighthearted satire. Easy to pick up when not wanting anything serious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Racism and War

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Xenophobia, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Terminal illness, Slavery, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Islamophobia, Infidelity, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Confinement, Colonisation, Car accident, Cancer, Body horror, Blood, Antisemitism, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

empathephant's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was a crazy good time. I want to reread it immediately, which is a sign of a good book for me. Instead I'll probably read the sequel and also brush up on my 20th century history class, which has somehow become 6,984 times as compelling...

I laughed aloud often, which is rare for me while reading, but also thought deeply about the way history had been presented to me in school, politics, conflict, and what matters most in life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Torture

The book is lighthearted in tone but does deal with a lot of war and political conflict. For me the tone meant that most of the book wasn't terribly distressing. However, I did feel very uncomfortable on 129 which discussed plans of guards to sexually assault a prisoner. I feel that the bottom half of that page could be skipped without losing much plot.