Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

27 reviews

diegocanread's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.75

It is wild having a cast of mentally ill characters just take me for a wild ride through what they think is normal

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, and Suicide

Moderate: Terminal illness

storieswithannej's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

DNF at 57%

The scene with the 13 yo girl and what Reiko and Naoko said about this psychological illness not going to heal triggered me. Now every next line that Reiko would mention "snap!" I felt like something in me's snapping too, that I need to pause for a while because it suddenly felt too much. I felt my heart beat racing too and I need a breather. I can't seem to remove that image from my mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

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

claukv's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Stalking, Alcohol, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Lesbophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Body shaming

tilde_c_s's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Death, and Alcoholism

kaylanoellesims's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, and Infidelity

anna_l's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Suicide, and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Blood

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

kiinhi's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

so beautifully written...its almost hard not to get sucked in and transported into the world that murakami writes. There are definitely some parts of the book that I don't like--and I'm still on the fence about the way he writes naoko / midori / reiko, but the book overall felt like a dark, rainy april night. It's melancholic, lonely, and feels like a dull heart ache that never fully goes away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

sweetpotatoes's review

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Suicide attempt, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Sexual content