Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Indigno de ser humano by Osamu Dazai

49 reviews

spacecars's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, and Abandonment

marsmartis's review against another edition

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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder and Death of parent

everyours's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It is an absolute masterpiece. The book is very descriptive and quite frankly is one of the best books I've ever read. His perspective on the world is strange. In a way I love to see his view. His emotions are portrayed quite well and the book is something I can relate to. Emotion wise. Reading this book was eye opening. I truly love this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

marissasa's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is depressing, strange, dark, difficult, and somehow so real. Despite the consistent themes of alienation throughout the book, the main character's thoughts and feelings, while quite intense, are at times surprisingly relatable. Instead of feeling sad for him or rooting for him, as I read on about his spiral into depression, alcoholism, and suffering I found myself simply understanding him. I can appreciate that this story feels like it was written not to make you cry or have sympathy for its main character, but to simply show the main character's unfiltered thoughts and feelings and make you think about what makes us human and what can make people feel like they aren't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lech4617's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Blood, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

margozaldivar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

bookmark3brodi's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

squidknees's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

onyxisalive's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

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

3.0

This book all round was okay. 
I found the character we were following to be interesting. This book mainly centres around his feelings of alienation from society and how much that impacts how he sees people. Due to his lack of understanding of them, leading to some horrible takes on humans (especially women). 

He seems to have a tendency to catastrophise things in his life which leads to him making some not great decisions- which in the end bring catastrophe to himself and the people in his life. 

All around he is a very interesting character, however it wasn’t enough to drive the book along for me. I found it difficult to finish as the lack of plot made it hard for me to want to know what was happening next as by halfway in the book I felt like I had gained enough of an understanding of the character that it was no longer enough to drive me on. 

All around relatively interesting, but at points due to no plot I lost interesting. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Eating disorder and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent

miijiju's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Oh man

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug abuse