jeremie's reviews
69 reviews

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

4.0

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide

Minor: Racial slurs

Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin

dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Rape, Murder, and Torture

White Noise by Don DeLillo

dark funny reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

Moderate: Racism

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Colonisation, and Misogyny

Moderate: Murder and Child abuse

The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Minor: Body horror, Incest, and Ableism

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

Murdoch is simply too wonderful. Pages and pages of meandering, unnecessary descriptions and yet I didn’t find myself bored even once. Plot was a bit ‘soap opera’ at times but such is typical for her writing. :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Child abuse, Suicide, Classism, War, Grief, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism