Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

15 reviews

laurenmiller100's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

I loved this. Most of the stories left me gobsmacked and excited to talk about them with friends to really dissect the ideas. This compilation is excellent. As always, I love Ted Chiang’s commentary on where each story came from.

Favorites: The Tower of Babylon, Division by Zero, The Story of Your Life, Hell is the Absence of God, Liking What You See: A Documentary

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

malaikawrites's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This was absolutely wonderful! Every story held its own, nut all together? All together it was dynamic, thought provoking and world-view shifting. It was a holistically powerful collection and I'm so glad I decided to pick it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death and Suicide

Minor: Racial slurs and Sexism

kimbo8's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, War, Medical trauma, Grief, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Misogyny

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

😱 I'm not usually an anthology girly, but this absolutely slapped. Almost all of the stories were highly rated, but Story of Your Life will definitely stick with me. I need to read Exhalation, like, now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Child death, and Suicide

Minor: Racism, Sexism, and Bullying

bomenvernietiger's review

adventurous challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

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

4.75

All the points for blowing me away completely. Minus a little for not always understanding women and autism.

This would be fully timeless, except that the author felt the need to include such a sexist trope as a father coming to terms with his daughter developing breasts. This holds the particular story back decades.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, and Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Blood

tiredcreature's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

• Tower of Babylon: Babylonian sci-fi (3.5/5)

• Understand: superpowered redditors do mind battle (2/5)

• Division by zero: mathematician discovers that mathematics is inconsistent; experiences a crisis (4/5)

• Stories of your life: linguist learns alien language, gains chronologically non-linear memory (5/5)

• Seventy-two letters: steampunk Hebrew true name magic ft. 19th-century-typical eugenics (5/5)

• The evolution of human science: what becomes of human science when we invent metahumans, who are more intelligent and capable than a human could ever become? (??/5 - feels incomplete)

• Hell is the absence of god: Christian horror; monstrous divinity (4/5)

• Liking what you see: fictional documentary transcript; discussion of neuromodification (4/5)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

loujanae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective

Every time I finished a story, I would look at my cat and say "well that was weird." 

Three stand out stories: 
Tower of Babylon
Story of Your Life
Hell is the Absence of God

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Murder

ryyy27's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Violence

leftandleaving_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

megsimsdavies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt