Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

7 reviews

iszys's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow I loved this book so much. It's definitely one of my favorites now. It didn't feel like a chore to read any of the 620 pages. The chapters were short, making it really easy to fly through. Sometimes I felt that I wanted to spend more time with the characters, but the continuous stopping and starting had me on the edge of my seat and made me want to keep reading. It's sci-fi, it's historical fiction, it's a Greek comedy, it's an environmentalist tale, it's a novel about the human desire to tell and preserve stories, and it's a book with a lot of bird imagery. What's not to love?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, War, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Gun violence

mrblueskyyy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia

jessi_c's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

A worthwhile Everest of a book. Every bit of the climb is as challenging as people say, but the triumph at the end was worth the journey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

Moderate: War, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Blood

Minor: Child death and Mental illness

miller8d's review

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

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

4.5

Changed my relationship to books and reading. One of the best books I have ever read. I highlighted so many passages that the Kindle highlight collection was literally 26 pages long.

Cried several times both out of happiness and sadness. Beautifully captures the actual sensations of love and loss and grief, and the gorgeous nature of children and animals and family, queer love and neurodivergent pain, and so much more. Refreshing poetry and ridiculously beautiful world-building in such intricate historical contexts. Addressed so many different issues and experiences with such flair and emotion. Delivers anarchist / anti-establishment / leftist values from the optimistic perspective that to be human is to be a part of the problem, and yet, we must love one another and love the Earth in order to power through the pain of life in order to radically experience the love, because that’s why we are here.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Racism, Physical abuse, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Homophobia, Sexism, Abandonment, War, Slavery, Gun violence, Colonisation, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Racial slurs, Bullying, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, and Animal cruelty

I am very sensitive and I LOVED this book and found it deeply emotionally uplifting despite these very severe content warnings

oh_sanny_day's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, War, Homophobia, Gun violence, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Rape

joriekae's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I can't believe how quickly I read this 600+ page book. I was hooked almost immediately and quickly finished this beautiful book. This book is part historical fiction, contemporary fiction, and science fiction all wrapped up in one. It is a heartfelt thank-you note to books and their ability to hold us together when the world is hard. I found myself googling about Constantinople and grey owls and ancient Greek. I love books that make me want to know more about something. In college I took several courses on the history of the book and one of my best days was visiting the oldest surviving printing presses in the world in Antwerp--chills! This book brought me back took those memories and reminded me how precious it is that we can read the words of someone who has been dead a very long time. That is some form of magic. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: War and Suicidal thoughts

blanketsandtea's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, War, and Violence