Reviews tagging Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

21 reviews

troldmand's review

dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Murder, Slavery, and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit

careohleen's review

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Racism and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Child death, Cursing, and Homophobia

Minor: Excrement, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Homophobia warning is for what reads to me as the predatory gay stereotype.

nebraskanwriter's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Dementia, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Physical abuse

_egg_wash's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death and Murder

amgbac09's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Slavery, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Gun violence

stephaniepihlkrarup's review

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Piranesi is the new literary love of my life. It is profound and wonderful. It reads like a classic — one which your soul has read many times before - one you might expect to find hidden away, with an inscription on the first page, gifting to an ancestor of yours, by an ancestor of theirs. 
This book is nothing like what I expected but everything I had hoped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Death, Child death, Blood, Slavery, Dementia, Animal death, and Abandonment

ferrisskis's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

I appreciate the imagery, but that's really the only thing I especially liked about it? And even that got excessive at points. It was particularly difficult to get through, as some points were just unimaginably boring. However, my main gripe is that it leaves far too much unexplained. The ending was not satisfying and I found the few characters included to be inconsistent. It's strange - it's like I get it, but at the same time I've never read anything more confusing in my life. I had three major questions (I won't disclose them for the sake of spoilers) the entire time, and only ONE of them was answered, if that tells you anything. 

Most of the legitimate story goes on in the background. As the reader, you're getting the story through the words of an amnesiac, unreliable narrator. It feels like there's a party going on in the room next to you and you're stuck with this person telling you about Star Trek. Like, thank you, I'm happy you're so happy, but I do NOT care at all. Could I leave please? I understand that that's the point (and to an extent I appreciate the uniqueness), but it gets frustrating after... (checks) ...245 pages? And practically NO disclosure? If I had known more, I could've liked it more. It got me around the middle, which is where it peaked, in my opinion, but then it lost me again.

After finishing I stared at a wall for maybe 15 minutes because my head hurt so much. Who knows, maybe I'm not intelligent and refined enough to truly enjoy its beauty. But as it stands, it's not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

roraisabella's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

5.0

I picked this up by chance, and it was amazing, I read it so fast as I couldn’t put it down. Even in the beginning where I had no idea what was going on, it was not confusing or boring but instead intriguing and fantastical. The world building is so original and beautiful, I felt as though I was in The House, lost with the protagonist, and having his revelations with him. I recommended this book to anyone into fantasy or mystery genres. Even after reading and researching the inspirations behind ‘Piranesi’, I am still thinking about and wondering about this story, wanting more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death, Excrement, Slavery, and Violence

tomtomonomtom's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Minor: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Gaslighting