Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

5 reviews

fox_at_the_circus's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

It took me a while to get into the book. I felt like the later stories were better than the earlier ones, but maybe I just got used to the writing style. 
I liked all the setups and ideas for the story, but it often felt like it didn't go far enough. I wished the worlds and society of them got explored ore broadly and without a focus on just 2 or 3 people, but that is definitely personal preference.
The characters on the other hand were very unlikeable or at best very hard to understand, which also made reading more difficult for me. Especially because for longer dialogues there are no indicators of who's speaking, so I always had to read them 2 or 3 times to make sense of it. But that could also me a concious choice of the author.
The book definitely made more sense to me, when I found it was written in the 70s/80s and the author died young, it also explains all the very heavy depressive undertones. It definitely stayed on my mind for a long time after finishing it and made me think about the themes of the book, so for that I appreciate it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Murder, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Colonisation

yuyuv's review

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, and Body shaming

alsoapples's review

dark lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence, Death, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Murder, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug use

ashleybeereads's review

DNF because I only wanted to read a couple of the stories. I read Terminal Boredom and the beginning of You May Dream. Super weird, in a good way. I might come back to this one to read the other stories another time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Suicide

connieischill's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Violence, Sexual content, Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, Death, and Colonisation