Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

554 reviews

kdalton15's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Favorite Murakami by far. The characters, metaphysical and surrealism that is typical for Murakami shines. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Abandonment

mdumler's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Not my style at all, really struggled to finish it, I was frequently uncomfortable in ways that I didn't really feel contributed to the story. Definitely should have done trigger warnings for animal abuse, murder, rape, and relations with a minor

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Rape, Murder

gracekuehn's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape

ambivalentneb's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

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My favorite book I’ve read thus far, at the start simple but it slowly gets more and more metaphysical until it’s confused and then it all just falls into place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Rape, Grief, Murder

Minor: War

bitofadisgrace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Listened to an audiobook so definitely missed out on some of the beauty of the prose. I can understand why many people loved this book, with it's philosophical explorations and the coming of age themes. It was a bit difficult and honestly boring to get through at certain points for me, and I feel like I'd have to re-read to really understand, but I don't really have any wish to at this point. Just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

distractible's review against another edition

3.25

mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Incest, Sexual content

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault

das_'s review against another edition

0.5

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A quite interesting mystery full of self-discovery at its core, with quite an unusual narrative that tells this story from multiple angles at once, this book seemed quite promising from the start. However, the overly casual dialogues that oscillate between intentionally inarticulate and pseudo-intellectual quickly got on my nerves, and the subsequent attempts to make light of pedophilia as well as incest were only the last straw. I'm fairly confident that this is the worst book that I've read in the past decade or so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder

wmelissa's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

geerbeer's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Wtf gewoon. Kon ook wel zonder alle rare seksuele fantasieën en onnodig dierenleed 😭 ben hier ook gewoon te dom voor ofzo. Wel interessante concepten over de ziel en soms mooi omschreven stukken.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

maddieramone's review against another edition

1.5

reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape