Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

816 reviews

radiobreadd's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

danny_peanut's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I found this as an amazing mirror while I was/am struggling with motivation and my choices I need to make atm. The cover and title hooked me, the sadness, events and melancholy calmed me. I found three times while reading this book I had to stop for a moment - on the verge of tears. The story doesn't really climax... that for me worked, implying there's a future to Yozo and thus a future for many in similar situations.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

hildayay's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Han bara verkligen hatar kvinnor, och det är liksom hela handlingen. Såklart fint skrivet på sina ställen och beskrivningen av den bottenlösa olyckan men framförallt kvinnohat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

sugessie's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

essie101's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

jennaweston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

This book honestly surprised me…in a great way. I fully expecting to hate it. To slog through it. To have a really hard time reading it. But to my surprise, I freaking loved this book. It was such an interesting perspective on life and that feeling of isolation. There were a lot of lines that hit home for me and struck me in an intense way. 

What I Liked 

• The autobiographical nature of it made it feel caught between a memoir and fiction. 
  • Having the character look at photos of the boy and then reading the journal entries, very meta, but also gave such an interesting weight to seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes and what they must see in every tiny detail of you.
• The writing — absolutely stunning. 
  • “I shut away my private anguish in a tiny compartment, keeping my gloom and nervousness secret and putting on a determined show of innocent cheer until, little by little, my transformation into a droll eccentric was complete.”
• Dazai so eloquently captures the feeling of being an outsider and isolation in this book that I haven’t really read or connected with anywhere else. That feeling of putting on a show everywhere you go to be liked, but never really connecting with people on that deeper level.

What I didn’t like

• More like a content warning: it is very dark — this book is not for the faint of heart, as it’s dealing with tough topics like suicide, drugs, and alcoholism.
• Don’t love that he plays such a pivotal role in another girl’s death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

crab_apple's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

nyra's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

eatmytoe404's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

i found some parts relateable and some parts very foreign

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

marie_reads16's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship