Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

12 reviews

libraryfrog's review against another edition

4.5

I enjoyed this story, Kazuo Ishiguro’s books always make me think. I like how the themes are explored but the reader isn’t moralized. Very contemplative and atmospheric. This book really hits the spot for a slow paced story with the feel of an Arthurian legend, but a modern take.

Just as a note, I have intermittent speech and found one aspect of the plot to be really uncomfortable, even though it may be historically accurate. 

when a character fakes being “mute” and “dumb”

so I would suggest deciding whether you will be okay reading a pretty awfully ableist series of exchanges that pepper the first portion of the book. If I had been prepared, I think I would have still chosen to read it though. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Ableism

starlitpage's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? No

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, Blood, and War

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

risemini's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Child death, and Dementia

spookfish's review

adventurous reflective sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Man, this book. I feel I'm going to have this settling in my mind a while. I'm just going to share the lines I underlined in my copy, as I can't think of how to discuss it.

'I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.'

'Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?'
  (...) 'We'll have the bad ones come back too, even if they make us weep or shake with anger. For isn't it the life we've shared?'

'I'll never , never give her up.'
  (...) 'You've known a long time now there's no cure to save her. How will you bear it, what now lies in wait for her? Do you long for that day you watch your dearest love twist in agony and with nothing to offer but kind words for her ear?'

'How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter (...)? I see how devoutly you wish it, for your old horrors to crumble as dust. Yet they await in the soil as white bones for men to uncover.'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Religious bigotry

bookerbride's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and War

Minor: Infidelity

syd4panda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

the only couple in the world that has my entire heart and all my blessings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Violence and Dementia

Minor: Grief and Death

mariekeroos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Amazing

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Genocide, War, and Violence

erikwmj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Violence

Minor: Rape

griffinthief's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, Violence, and Terminal illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Gore

jwells's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad

Literary fantasy that packs a punch, if a reader is willing to meet it on its own terms. It doesn't follow fantasy genre rules for who a protagonist should be, what an action scene should be like, or even what the most important part of the story should be.

I cried more at the end than I did over Never Let Me Go. YMMV.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Child death and Infidelity