Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

La Gente En Los Árboles by Hanya Yanagihara

21 reviews

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

If ever a content warning was needed for a book, it's this one. Beautiful writing paired with a haunting and vile faux memoir tragically based on some true events. 

The epilogue and post script literally had me holding back gags and left me feeling nauseated. 

I highly recommend the audiobook; being able to really hear Ronald's notes and emphasis on things makes all the difference imo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Child abuse, Racism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Dementia, Death, Cultural appropriation, and Rape

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexism, Suicide, and Medical content

laura_alsop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, Dementia, Child abuse, Confinement, and Death

gracereadsx's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Dementia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, and Rape

salexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, and Dementia

msnopek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Child abuse, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Rape, Death, Dementia, Medical content, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Sexual assault

grazzzo's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

i spent the whole book looking for clues in the text and footnotes about what would happen later on, thinking all the scientific info and stuff about phillip tallent perina would be important to then get to the end and realise it was just an autobiography rather than a mystery. and i was wondering why include such information about a mythological turtle which provides immortality if the last 50 pages are going to have nothing to do with this plot, if immortality will in fact play no role in it - but i realised it was norton's going to the island that would cause its destruction, cause him to have to adopt the children, and give him opportunity to do what he did. so the turtle plot was just a set up for the main plotline - which is a metaphor for and criticism of colonisation

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Animal death, Rape, Colonisation, Dementia, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

micamicami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Confinement, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Colonisation, Abandonment, and Dementia

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Sexual content, Medical content, and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism

msefinney's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Child abuse, Dementia, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Excrement, Suicide, Slavery, Body shaming, and Suicidal thoughts

neliaa's review against another edition

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

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

4.75

Gruesome, grotesque, fascinating and eye-opening

Mini spoiler -> when I whrite eye-opening, I am referring to the consequences of the western takeover of U’ivu. 

Another mini spoiler -> I really wanna know what happened to Tallent

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Dementia, and Medical content

anningana's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Racism, Child abuse, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Dementia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Sexism, Colonisation, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Death, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts