Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum

8 reviews

charlies_shelf's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

O Captain My Captain 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt

irislovescats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual harassment

aprilblues348's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

candearangotobon's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Rape, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

jackyjoojoo's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I will never recover from this.

ok so it isn't perfect by a long shot and the film is 100 times better than the book but I found that reading the book and annotating it was a way to compile my thoughts abt the story and stuff.

no the writing isn't amaizing but ya know what the story is good enough that I was distracted and I honestly loved it 


Neil Perry my love I am so sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

c45p1n's review

emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

filo's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault

anastasia_reads's review

emotional sad medium-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

1.0

"What ever"
I had quite high expectations for this book that weren't met (sadly). The first time I read it was in French class when I was 16 and I remember loving it back then. The English reread wasn't that great though.... The literary quality is just nowhere to be found. it seems like N.H.K. didn't take Mr. Keatings lesson to heart when writing. The vocabulary is very poor. Add to that, that there is no inner monologue whatsoever and very very little characterisation of the different boys from the school. We only get a surface level depiction, she could have dug deeper.

Perry's death seems almost like a poor taste joke with NO inside on how he actually felt prior to killing himself. It almost described as him throwing a tantrum and then killing himself only to further enrage his father....

Poor representation of mental health problems in young people. The movie (which came first) is way better in my memory. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt