Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Tokio blues (Norwegian Wood) by Haruki Murakami

121 reviews

ana6454's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I had to put it down for a few months bit I was re-engage after the midway point. Introspective, but nothing reviting in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicide

demirro's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

banannabel's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing slow-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

3.25

i don’t get the beginning or end but i liked the book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

melis17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

mjones14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

Jesus christ. The amount of times I thought 'oh' whilst reading this. I get why it's such a red flag of a book now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

sweetpotatoes's review against another edition

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

jazsever's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship

fbarros's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-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

2.0

Murakami has a beautiful way with words, making any bad story seem good. 
This book only has death and sex in it, but death is not explored as it should be, and sex is explored too much. 
The main character has nothing going for him, and every time a woman appears in his life, it's only to give him sexual pleasure of some kind. The characters aren't lovable or relatable and are vague even though they seem to talk a lot. 
The two stars are only given because I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions of places as well as the flow of the plot and the way the author writes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

modernbookwoman's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Minor: Mental illness, Death, and Sexual content

samchase112's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-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

4.5

Media — especially books and movies — about grief have hit me quite hard, affected me a lot, in the past year, and this novel is absolutely no exception. Intimate, nostalgic, it's a dreamy exploration of living and living with death. I'm not quite sure how exactly I feel about it, but I know that I do feel because of it. I've pasted some quotes below that I couldn't help dog-earing, but beyond that there's nothing more to say.

Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life… Death exists — in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table — and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit to forget that.

I miss you awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.

And I'm just going to keep on getting stronger. I'm going to mature. I'm going to be an adult. Because that's what I have to do. I always used to think I'd like to stay seventeen or eighteen if I could. But not anymore. I'm not a teenager anymore. I've got a sense of responsibility now. I'm not the same guy I was when we used to hang out together. I'm twenty now. And I have to pay the price to go on living.

By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn.

What I learned from Naoko's death was this:

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Death, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Vomit, Rape, and Medical content