Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

5 reviews

courto875's review against another edition

dark funny slow-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Xenophobia

Moderate: War

Minor: Deportation, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Murder, Infidelity, Drug use, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

mlewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Minor: War

fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

It took me a while to get into the book. I felt like the later stories were better than the earlier ones, but maybe I just got used to the writing style. 
I liked all the setups and ideas for the story, but it often felt like it didn't go far enough. I wished the worlds and society of them got explored ore broadly and without a focus on just 2 or 3 people, but that is definitely personal preference.
The characters on the other hand were very unlikeable or at best very hard to understand, which also made reading more difficult for me. Especially because for longer dialogues there are no indicators of who's speaking, so I always had to read them 2 or 3 times to make sense of it. But that could also me a concious choice of the author.
The book definitely made more sense to me, when I found it was written in the 70s/80s and the author died young, it also explains all the very heavy depressive undertones. It definitely stayed on my mind for a long time after finishing it and made me think about the themes of the book, so for that I appreciate it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Murder, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Colonisation

alsoapples's review against another edition

dark lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence, Death, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Murder, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug use

ardour's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Death, Murder, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Abandonment, Blood, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Blood, and Domestic abuse