Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

31 reviews

bananaza55's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Blood, Grief, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Rape, and Murder

lukests's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual assault, Rape, Abandonment, Death of parent, Animal death, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Transphobia and Ableism

soumil_da_vinci's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.75

It's like fine wine.
Everyone won't like it.
You will have to read some other stuff,other classic books, a taste of magic realism and all that before you get here.
The ending is criticised by many but once you start reading it you will understand the flow, how the story is and by the time you reach the end you will understand why it ends like that even though you might not agree to the ending. Hell, you might not like the whole story but the time won't surely be wasted.
I highly recommend it to one and all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Incest, Sexual content, Violence, War, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Grief, Gore, and Animal cruelty

mirandyli's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

A trippy combo of Catcher in the Rye and Oedipus Rex. Slow moving at times. Not sure what the takeaway was supposed to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Transphobia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, and Grief

jppineda's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, Grief, Death, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, and Adult/minor relationship

thenoboshow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

Prose felt like stumbling through a dream. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, Torture, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Grief, Incest, Suicide, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child abuse

abyss65's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, and Rape

burnsys_books_811's review

1.5

I hate this book. I think honestly that Murakami is just not for me. While interesting in it's surrealist elements, there is far too much description of the 15y/o mc's penis to be an enjoyable read. I also don't like the aloof way a lot of really serious topics are handled in this book, as though they mean nothing. It's just a grossly uncomfortable read and I don't feel as though anything was gained from reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Grief, and Death

mariekeroos's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Grief, Incest, Murder, Rape, and Sexual content

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Sexual violence, Rape, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Grief, Gore, and Incest

To elaborate on content warnings: Two different instances of incest, both involving an adult & a minor. One was consensual in the real world and another was rape in a shared dream. The animal cruelty is extremely gruesome and involves cats, so cat lovers should brace or skip this book altogether.