Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Out by Natsuo Kirino

7 reviews

evaskov's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

really loved the way this book slowly builds to this extreme boiling point in the ending. it takes its time to get there but it truly is like the analogy of the frog and boiling water. the tension rises so slowly that you don’t even notice a change until you think back to where it started. 

for various reasons i didn’t appreciate the very very ending. like the last 10 pages basically. Masakos development takes a turn for the worst and I didn’t like a lot of the implications behind it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Body horror, Misogyny, and Body shaming

Moderate: Alcohol, Excrement, and Alcoholism

s_lorenz's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, Torture, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Blood, Body shaming, Death, and Sexual violence

perkyanda's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This one was hard to rate because I really loved a lot of it…And then it went off the rails and had

this horrible weird ending that didn’t seem to fit with the whole beginning part of examining female interpersonal relationships and what can drive normal people to commit gruesome crimes. Like sexual Siam was a smaller theme earlier so I guess it’s not shocking that’s where it went, we saw it in multiple characters early on, I wasn’t expecting it to be the denouement.||

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Excrement, Gore, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Dementia, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexual content

natreviews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

So this is another booktok book, and I really enjoyed it. I liked how all of the characters were around middle age. I like the dynamics. I like how it goes into some gruesome stuff, but doesn't give too much detail

(when it comes to the rape scene that happens at the very end of the book)

. The book makes the actions of the characters understandable, but not to the point of sympathy. Like, your sympathetic to their situations outside of the main act of the novel, but your not sympathetic to where they end up. I find a lot of novels have a hard time pulling this off, but this one didn't. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Torture

Minor: Excrement

_bxllxe_'s review

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Though slow-paced, the payoff was worth the wait. A damn good thriller in my opinion! Far better than most American thrillers I’ve read, at any rate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Gore, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Xenophobia, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Dementia, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Excrement

purplemind's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

 Nonostante la sua lunghezza, questo è un libro che si divora; o, forse, è il libro a divorare te, obbligandoti a voltare continuamente pagina per scoprire cosa succederà poi. Nonostante la quantità piuttosto elevata di personaggi rilevanti per la trama, nessuno di essi viene lasciato al caso, anche grazie al fatto che il punto di vista della narrazione varia da capitolo in capitolo. Oltre che un eccellente thriller, Le quattro casalinghe di Tokyo è anche un’affascinante finestra sulla società giapponese post-bolla economica, specialmente per quanto riguarda le varie categorie femminili che cercavano di navigarla. Peccato per il finale un po’ affrettato e che non chiude tutte le parentesi narrative aperte per lasciar spazio a due scene

di stupro

che, più che scioccare, lasciano, a mio parere, un po’ perplesse.
 (traduzione ottima, con le adeguate spiegazioni che potrebbero essere utili a qualcuno poco esperto di Giappone) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Addiction, Gore, Sexual content, Ableism, Blood, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Misogyny

colpenbewley's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It took a little while for me to get used to the writing as you can tell by the phrasing that it is translated. However, I did enjoy the story to a point as I found the plot quite hard to predict and I enjoyed the dynamic between the female characters.

Where the story lost me was the violence and sexual repression and this being enjoyed and embraced by the women themselves. I found it staggering that a woman has written this.

The darkness of the novel and the violence did not bother me. But the way this was supposedly welcomed by the women just struck me as odd, unlikely and made me dismissive of the novel as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Violence, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Stalking

Minor: Alcoholism