Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

16 reviews

flooooo's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

dearbhlanoonan's review against another edition

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, and Chronic illness

bethantg's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Medical content and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

ephemeral_remi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

relf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.0

A short and dark meditation on death and dying. Ivan Ilyich, a judge, has led a superficially successful but unfulfilling, unexamined life. A painful illness causes him to reflect on the triviality of his life and the unfairness of his coming death. Only a servant, a simple, loyal young man, brings him any solace on his death bed. I read the novella having just watched the film "Living," based on the Kurosawa film "Ikiru" ("To Live"), which in turn was based on this book. While "Ikiru" was the darker of the two films, neither was as dark as Tolstoy's vision; both films' protagonists achieve real redemption through practical works of kindness before their deaths, which Ivan does not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content

eve81's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Excrement

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

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

3.0

What you see is what you get here. A guy dies. The writing is interesting, but that's kind of what's goin' on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Classism, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Toxic relationship

luca_18's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic relationship

mme_carton's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Terminal illness

orchidd's review against another edition

reflective fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death