Reviews tagging 'Death'

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

21 reviews

zeasea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Just incredible. Everyone should read at least once.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Pregnancy, and War

queerloras's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

Lost a quarter star at the end for the epilogue - I enjoyed the bits about Pierre, Natasha

(although it's a shame Natasha changed so much once she was married)

, Marya and Nikolay - but all of the digression about what is power and Napoleon and Alexander and the revolution was so dense it was hard to get through, so I gave up with 10 pages to go.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Gaslighting

jackmchristensen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: War

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

ivana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

caidyn's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Okay, I managed to read it and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. A sweeping epic and it's a book that will take multiple reads to appreciate entirely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

audreybelle's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Undeniably worse than the actual published text. At first it seemed like Tolstoy was writing in a more grounded, character focused voice (for example: wherein actual War and Peace, Tolstoy says something to the effect of "ippolit told a nonsensical story in his terrible Russian with his French accent" in this we are actually given the dialogue of that story and can tell how nonsensical it sounds) but eventually Tolstoy shifts into his normal philosophical bullshit prose. The Andrew Bromfield translation is terrible, and often awkwardly modern, including such poorly chosen phrases as "Anatole is trash" and "Ippolit's stupid face". I suppose it's worth a read if you're obsessed with the same mid-tier villains I am and want the two chapters in which they are slightly more fleshed out. Overall it is still War and Peace (but shorter!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Dementia, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Domestic abuse, Incest, and Miscarriage

helene_kuragina's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, and Suicide

dani007k's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Incest, Sexism, and Terminal illness

vlntnmz's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

gm_vak's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Grief, and Death of parent