Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Indigno de ser humano by Osamu Dazai

56 reviews

alex_lad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Amazing book following the life and would be deaths of oba yozo. Written so sporadically yet so structred as to make the book feel so fast paced, yet as if nothing has changed, because yozo hasn't, not really. Very reflective book that you can never be truly ready to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Classism

Minor: Death, Blood, Vomit, and Death of parent

daynacruz01's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault and Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

little_carrot's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Addiction, Rape, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infidelity, Blood, and Vomit

_tabby_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

This book really captures the self-centered and immoral life lead by the main character, Oba Yozo. Its told from the perspective of Yozo through 3 notebooks and each notebook follows on from the last but progresses through his life until the age of 27. 
Osamu Dazai writes the role of the self-loathing yet hypocritical man, (who believes himself to be an exception from the rules simply because he believes himself to not be human and to be above the understanding of humans) incredibly well but you will never like Yozo. I believe that is the point of the book: to pity the ones who were involved in the life of our main character.
Edit: I just found out this was a suicide note written by Dazai that he wrote in the form of a book... uh.. at least he had a creative outlet???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Blood

vaiurle's review against another edition

dark tense

• Strong character development? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Death of parent

nellienelson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I did love this book, but I had a hard time getting through. I had to reread every sentence before I understood what it meant (could be because it was written in old-english and a lot of the words weren’t in my vocabulary). 
However, I could relate to the main character. Not everything, but a lot of things he said made sense to me.
I would recommend this book, but take your time to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Rape and Death of parent

cassandra72's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I was going to criticize the author, until I read the epilogue and did some deep thinking. Now I don't want to be too harsh as well, knowing how personal this felt for him, because of his own mental struggles and him eventually committing suicide.

So this was an extremely depressing and dark read about the very lonely and again very depressing life of Yozo. From a young age, he was a people pleaser because he was scared of humans, to the point that he despised them. He grew out to be incredibly self centered and thus was disconnected from everyone around him. I felt that his feelings towards humans and the misogyny in his mind was an extension of his depressive thoughts and drink addiction: being a self pitying person, who revels only in his own perceived suffering, while treating and thinking of everyone in his life terribly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Sexual assault

julitomke's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Suicide, and Blood

lovely_lisa's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This was really an interesting book but it's quit  different to give a rating. 

It was unique. 

The writing was a bit challenging some times but I still had to keep reading. I think it was worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction and Suicide

Minor: Blood and Vomit

lilly_anne's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-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

2.5

I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It is clear that it is meant to make the reader feel uncomfortable and at that it is rather successful. But overall I found this book to be mostly boring with a few short parts that were very good, but can be counted on one hand.
What I did have a problem with was the narrator's view on women and his extreme misogyny whenever attempting to explain the "nature of women". Of course this is a product of the early 20th century where this might be appropriate, but it still makes me want to throw up and I have no desire reading this kind of content (even if such a book might be considered a classic).
Apart from that I probably feel quite neutral about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, and Abandonment