Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

48 reviews

soupply's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Xenophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

2busyreading's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death and Sexual content

Minor: Mental illness and Racism

vhsrentals's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and War

booknerdbetty's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Car accident

missmakaela's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, and War

ri_lei_gh's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pregnancy

dortz_solivagantreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book has been sitting on my shelf for a year before I had enough courage to read it. I'm glad I have waited this long because I didn't have sufficient emotional resiliency back then. This book would have swallowed me whole and spit me back in pieces. Thanks to my book friends in Just Another Chapter book club for being there to help me process what I had just read.

I love it because it's masterfully written with the emphasis on needlessness of war, and its debilitating effects. One of the most haunting lines in the books is "So it goes", an acerbic refrain that comes up every time someone dies or when the author talks about death in the book. 

"there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want  anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds."

"So it goes."

"You know - we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being caught by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw these freshly shaved faces, it was a shock." 'My God, my God - - 'I said to myself, It's the Children's Crusade."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and War

tatiannaskye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

All along I thought this book was anti-war and such. But it is so much more than that, I mean the lessons it conveys are out of this world (see what I did there). This book could be interpreted in many ways for me I interpreted it as Billy Pilgrim has a strong case of ptsd or ptss (whichever one prefers). How no matter where he is or what he is doing in the present he is always in the past in Dresden. And that one never really leaves war after being in it and seeing it’s horrors and experiencing them too. Also the plane crash is another contributing factor to why he thinks the way he does and such. Maybe when he was in the accident his brain got all jumbled up and he took the books he’s read by Kilgore and made them into reality his reality. All in all it was a wonderful book and just an experience in and of itself reading this book. Can’t wait to read more books by vonnegut and hope they are just as wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and War

Moderate: Sexual content

Just a whole lotta war and ptsd

hanakograce's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Antisemitism, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dominic_caudill's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

But did anyone ever consider: war is bad?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Violence, and War

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma