Reviews tagging Mental illness

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon

17 reviews

trippalli's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

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

5.0

An inspiring story narrated by an autistic teenager as he navigates large challenges and solves a mystery. Clever and respectful, this book pots you in that boys shoes and is a unique book narrator that is both eloquent and engaging.

The trigger warnings are from an autistic perspective so while still can be upsetting these have a uniquely informative perspective, less emotional upset and more logical analysis of situations and disgust at things that trigger the narrator, and there narrator's response to being upset.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Vomit, and Animal death

Moderate: Animal death, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Excrement, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Police brutality, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Vomit, Animal death, Drug abuse, and Grief

aniyahchrouch's review

adventurous reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

Slay 
Don’t ask me what happened cause I don’t know 😄

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness

noahsingh's review

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

2.0

mixed feelings about this book as someone on the spectrum, definitely related to the main character a lot but the amount of abuse he suffers from his family, which isn't properly condemned imho made me incredibly uncomfortable. yeah, wouldn't reccomend it to other people on the spectrum, definitely found it triggering

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Ableism

Moderate: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Abandonment, Police brutality, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

ageckocalledachilles's review

funny sad fast-paced

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

2.0

I found this book funny and cool when I first read it at 11 years old, but since then I have grown up and come to realise that it wasn't that great.

SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT

Christopher is treated with mingled pity and irritation by the author, to the extent that his father is portrayed as 'the reasonable parent' (he hits Christopher at several points. That's literal child abuse.) The portrayal of autism is accurate in places, but in others comes off as stereotyped and poorly researched. In summary, if you're gonna write a book where the adults treat a child like shit, don't imply that it's justified bc their disability is 'just so hard to deal with'.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Violence

jennalynn48's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Violence, Vomit, Mental illness, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Excrement

jonsnowsmanbun's review

emotional informative fast-paced

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

2.0

I bet Sia loves this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Ableism

Moderate: Child abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

bookhoarderbea's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Vomit and Mental illness

white_tea_beluga's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

The book was really nice. There were certainly times were I felt for the side characters who had to take care of Christopher and sometimes there were times that I felt for Christopher himself. I could say that in some ways it was a conflicting book because no side you choose is the right answer and you can't find a satisfactory answer to the question 'what would I do if I was in that situation?'. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Murder, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Alcohol, Dementia, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Vomit

andersonmm223's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Vomit, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Abandonment

alomie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

Solid book, I liked it a lot. 

I like stories like this, and I listened to the Audio book which really helped immerse me in the story, I had read this one years ago but I had mostly forgotten the story. 

I found Christopher to be a strong main character and I really enjoyed seeing the world through his perspective. It must be really scary to not understand what is going on a lot of the time but also to by hyper intelligent in other ways. 

I like how he used maths to make sense of a world that really doesn't hold much in the way of structure. 
I also enjoyed that it wasn't just a  "they all live happily ever after" ending, it left it open and if felt honest and real. 

Christopher's Parents, I did sympathise with them, however I did think that they were pretty shitty parents overall, and there was a lot of questionable moments, and the losing of tempers turning into violence against a child who is so very much on the spectrum felt uncomfortable, and more so that it was from Christopher's perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Animal death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, and Grief