Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

18 reviews

tmickey's review against another edition

Emma just became more and more irritating until I just stopped caring what happened. Charles was also obnoxious, just in a different way. Ultimately I read a spoiler summary and realized the rest of the plot was not worth the time. I hate cheating in books anyway so I was already prepared to DNF if I wasn’t enjoying it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicide, Medical content, and Medical trauma

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-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: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Medical content, and Classism

Moderate: Pregnancy

bleuennreads_'s review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

mazzoccatoadele's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

rip emma bovary you would have loved townie by mitski

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Suicide

Moderate: Racial slurs, Medical content, and Pregnancy

lostinthelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-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

4.0

I can see why this novel is so well praised. It is somehow at the same time satirical, realistic and tragic. It is great that a man of that time was able to write such an interesting female character and I can see why it would have caused controversy. Flaubert also perfectly captured small town rural attitudes and practices in such a humorous and heartfelt way. This all makes the book still very readable to a modern audience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide

nineinchnails's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-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

4.25

i love this and surprisingly even loved charles which i did not expect going into this. he was naive and clueless when it came to his wife’s feelings but seemingly pretty sweet otherwise. it was ironic he had no clue about how miserable emma was in their marriage though, considering he had just been in a loveless marriage himself. this is pretty dense - it felt like so much happened but also nothing at all so it was a slog to get through occasionally. i loved the style of the prose and the flowery language it felt almost poetic in places - i wish i was fluent in french because i imagine the prose would flow even better in the original text.

i did get a little bored in the middle since i’d assumed the fun was over for our titular character (and the pacing of this was pretty strange) but she got a second wind and i ended up loving it!! emma had no redeeming qualities that i can recall but she was really engaging to read about and i found myself empathising with her, especially towards the end. she came across as quite naive and disillusioned so i had a lot more vitriol for rodolphe on account of his shameless manipulation of her. he wasn’t the only man to take advantage of her naïveté and it was both gratifying (because she was pretty awful) and frustrating to watch it happen as the reader.   

the copy i read had a section at the end of “explanatory notes” which was referenced to constantly throughout and it massively contributed to my enjoyment since i ended up learning so much about 19th century france and flaubert himself. it was genuinely really interesting and i had no idea just how advanced medicine was in those times. i don’t think i agree with the moral of the story (from my interpretation) but i still really enjoyed this. no plot little character development just vibes but the vibes were gorgeous. i loved the setting and the prose was incredibly pretty. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Vomit, and Antisemitism

Child neglect and Prostitution/Sex work

roxyunderscored's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Infidelity, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

alinas_library's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.5

J’étais surprise de l’actualité de quelques caractères et actions. Rodolphe est un « fuckboy » typique et Emma est super « delusional » et rêve de l’amour profonde comme dans ses romans. C’était très amusant pour moi. Quand-même, quelques remarques seront problématiques dans le contexte moderne. 
« Madame Bovary » est parfois persistant, mais c’est très clair, pourquoi on considère ce roman comme un classique. La langage est très poétique et magistrale, la critique de la société, qui était un scandale pendant cette époque, est claire et ironique. 
Un livre bien compréhensible même pour les apprenants du français, comme moi (à l’aide des traducteurs ;)).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content

silverasters's review against another edition

challenging slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Medical content

ezulc's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Death, Infidelity, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail