Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

6 reviews

sammm_888's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

cutepatzie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I was positively suprise with that book. Such an amazing book to reflect on process of growing up, changes, grief, and more. Great show how Japan look like. How mental illness is hired and how finding yourself is hard. Specialty after so much tragic happening around you. Great book to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

jessiejessj's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I am undecided on how I feel about this book for a variety of reasons. The main character is one that I enjoyed and I found his view and his takes on life to be refreshing. He was a flawed human, but he acknowledged that fully, and there was something inherently likeable in his own measure of himself that I connected to. But I hated the women and I think that was likely a measure of my own shortcomings and my own experiences with men that made me want to shake my fist at them going “What are you doing!!! Can’t you see how depraved these men are making you? Don’t you know you deserve better?!” Maybe I am just not accustomed to Japanese literature and the themes inherent in them, but gah, this book mainly just made me mad, confused, or sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

anotherbookwithtee's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book made me feel very uncomfortable didn’t enjoy the readin experience- but as a whole it’s a very interesting book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

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

phoebedowling's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad slow-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

3.5

The ending was very impactful and beautiful, but whilst in the midst of reading I found myself getting bored and also frustrated by the casual misogyny of the narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Death, Grief, and Misogyny

Minor: Eating disorder