Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

15 reviews

ktrecs's review against another edition

challenging mysterious 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Gun violence

geekgoddessofbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

avinawood's review against another edition

The writing is excellent, suprisingly engaging. Whether that is the author or translator's ability I'm not sure. The actual plot/contents put me off. The story is fantastical but not in a way that I can consider good. The repetition along with the actions taken by characters are incredibly off-putting and I've read plenty of other novels with heinous characters doing unspeakable things. The lack of nuance surrounding the actions though is incredibly troubling to me.

*I want to make clear that I'm aware that the three books were put together in one for the English version, however, the repition persists even within the books.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

This book really disappointed me. All of the characters sound fascinating in theory, and I liked the parallel universes idea, but the writing was just really bad. Important points are reiterated over and over like the reader might not be paying attention, and plot points are over-explained (there is a part in book 3 where the POV characters are constantly missing each other and the narration is constantly telling you exactly when they passed each other by even though it's obvious - it made me feel like Murakami thinks his readers are idiots). 

All of the characters talk about taking control but just get pushed around by the narrative. Most of them hardly do anything at all.

The writing around underage girls is gross, especially a plot contrivance which allows a major character (who is a teacher!!) to have guilt-free sex with a teenage girl. All of the female characters are written very poorly and described by their breasts even when they are dead.

The romance that is basically the whole point of the book is ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death and Incest

Minor: Fatphobia and Car accident

fionac326's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Dementia, and Death of parent