Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

30 reviews

kathleendayle's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

laurenleannereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective relaxing medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death of parent

yasaman's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia and Abandonment

vaguelyredhead's review against another edition

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Murder

Minor: Death, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

realsiderzz30's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

Haruki Murakami has created a brilliant and reflective coming-of-age story, focused on a close group of friends in Nagoya, Japan. Murakami encourages the reader to expand their own understanding into human nature throughout the course of the read.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

kaylamoran's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

This is such a hard book to rate, as there were things I loved and things I hated. 

I hated the way the story centered on a fake rape accusation.  I really don't think that's a helpful narrative, and it wasn't necessary for the story.  Tsukuru could have been shunned for any number of reasons.  I also found it a bit frustrating how seemingly cheating wasn't a red flag?  Why would Kuro tell Tsukuru to fight for a woman with another boyfriend?

  Ultimately I related to Tsukuru in many ways, and I was really rooting for him.  Usually slow paced books with a ton of descriptors bore me, but that didn't happen here.  I do wish Murakami spent a bit less energy describing women's breasts though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

Moderate: Eating disorder and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage

mercurue's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

mxpringle's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-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

4.5

I love the dream like state this book put me in where I questioned what events in it were real and fake. The writing and the way the characters were so fleshed our really gripped me and I haven't read a book so quickly in forever. However, as a with a lot of Murakami's writing, I did have an issue with how he portrays women and sex, and his strong emphasis on the male gaze. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder and Vomit

ccs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

kaexilius's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts