Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

11 reviews

kyoe983's review

challenging dark emotional relaxing sad medium-paced

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

3.0

The one thing that this book keeps consistent throughout the story it's aesthetic. Through Murakami's writing style and the translator's work, we're transported in the somber and full-of-death world of Toru Watanabe, with every scene, place, thought, and dialogue seeming extremely vivid. This clearness of the story seems very entertaining while reading, but if you take it away you'll realize that Murakami writes about a bunch of nonsense. The flaws of this book are numerous, and even if it seems you're following a story while reading, you're not. There are just events. Rememberings of a 40-year-old man. Are his thoughts even real? He does mention in the first chapter that he doesn't remember much, and then proceeds to write a full book, very vividly and detailed, about his life 20 years ago. Maybe that also explains why the ending is so fucking bad. Maybe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Rape, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Suicidal thoughts

bexdot's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

3.5 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

ivana's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Animal death, Child death, and Cursing

ahnminjim's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Infertility, and Sexual harassment

pixie_j2001's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

xshu1's review

challenging funny lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

I always wondered how the main character got so many bitches like he's so basic. MAYBE it's cus he's nice I guess, but he got his ded bsf chick, he got a hot adventurous chick and he got an older woman. I feel like there's a pattern in Murakami's books, or the ones I've read so far...

I liked this one better than kafka cus this one is just a light read about life...and women. Though one particular mentally ill girl made me wanna slap her and tell her to get a freaking grip.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing

anthuriumskies's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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? Yes

5.0

the way this book grabbed my heart and dissected the darkest parts of it in two days 😍😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

phoenix_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Self harm, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Eating disorder

lilibraries's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

beautifully written. murakami is a wonderful storyteller who makes great use of language, and the translation was simply gorgeous. however, not much happens plot-wise as we are mainly just following toru watanabe as he fucks his way through tokyo and falls a little more in love with his dead bestfriend's ex-girlfriend and this taken girl who says the most out of pocket shit ever. this book is also horny as fuck. 4/5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Terminal illness, and Self harm

madeleineelr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing