Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Le Grand Livre by Connie Willis

32 reviews

sby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Misogyny and Grief

caoimhemia's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

zophiebrown's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

An eerily prophetic look at the modern response to a pandemic. Thought-provoking take on both history and current events, told through lovable characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Blood

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual harassment

Eerily reminiscent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

kim_isa's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cursing, Rape, and Alcohol

dark_lyn's review against another edition

dark funny informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

This was such a fun concept, but it moved so... very... slowly. I think it could have been shorter. The author was spot on with her prediction of how the USA would handle a pandemic! She did not grasp how mobile phones would evolve though. A major factor was characters struggling to reach each other by phone, and having to borrow a phone from whatever building they were in. Which made it feel like the story was set in the past, despite the futuristic video phones, medical advancement and time travel machines. This story was full of dry humour, but it was not lighthearted, it dealt with some very dark topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death

Graphic description of plague symptoms and deaths. Epidemic outbreak and reflection on a past pandemic.

iris_garden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Antisemitism, Abandonment, and Alcohol

fahyhallowell's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Fascinating to read this tale of two epidemics in the midst of our current pandemic. Many elements ring true such as conspiracy theorists popping up. Aside from time travel, the technology is comiclly antique - phones had video screens but that's about it. I appreciated the classic British humor in the present as a break from the grimness of the past. 100% recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Classism

rachelish's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

speasyspice's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Vomit