Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

44 reviews

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Confinement, Grief, and Rape

oh_sanny_day's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, War, Homophobia, Gun violence, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Rape

jmbz38's review

challenging slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Confinement

Minor: War and Body shaming

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Misogyny, Blood, Bullying, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Excrement and Rape

bibliocinephile's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

4.0

OH MY GOD. like always, his style is just so. fucking. good. it's rich and deep and his word choice is SO unique and beautiful. however it sometimes is useless, all in all i think he distracts too much from his own story sometimes by describing in a bit too much detail. HOWEVER. stunning. concerning. riveting. people complain it's too long but the flow is good enough that it passes quickly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit

cianarae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Mental illness, Confinement, Murder, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Dementia, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Minor: Slavery, Animal death, and Pregnancy

breadwitchery's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Homophobia, Death, Mental illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Gun violence, and Animal death

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery

leahrosiee's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

This is a story about amazement, literacy, time, and memory. Five characters show how stories are passed along through time. How a book, in their case the story of Cloud Cuckoo Land, can hold someone together through all the shit life is putting them through and connect them to people they will never know across the world and throughout time. 
Each character has so much in common despite such vastly different circumstances. 

I found myself more drawn to certain storylines than others, which made it a little slow. Anthony Doerr really said “I could go into heavy detail, and I will, I will go into heavy detail”. I cannot tell you how many pages were dedicated to two of the characters waiting for a war to begin. 
Despite that, there is no denying how expertly the author weaves stories together and what an incredible book this is. 
So …. I don’t know what to think. But I think I love it. 

Side note: if you aren’t already outraged by how little our society values librarians, this book will help solidify that for you, I promise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Slavery, War, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, and Confinement

Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Murder

ekmook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Gun violence, Death, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

blanketsandtea's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, War, and Violence