Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Kafka på stranden by Haruki Murakami

14 reviews

morag's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Animal death, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: War

xaurarose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Incest, Trafficking, Animal death, Ableism, Rape, and Sexual content

lara_anne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Ableism, Animal death, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, and Pedophilia

leanne_miron's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, Incest, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gore, Animal cruelty, Death, Pedophilia, and Rape

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, Sexism, and Transphobia

aisclaradm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

This book is surreal, confusing, and beautiful. I absolutely adore the writing style, and much preferred it to Norwegian Wood, the other Murakami book I have read. The strangeness of the story is done so well, and the different characters and their perspectives all add such a different flavour to the overall narrative. 

Overall, an amazing book that would have deserved a full 5 stars, except that the way that women are written is absolutely vile — I have never seen a clearer example of rabid sexual objectification in such an unnecessary, uncomfortable, and graphic way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Animal cruelty, Sexism, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism and Abandonment

Minor: Chronic illness

arationalvein's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

We're losing a half star here for the sex scenes - I do not ever need to read about a 15 year old's penis this many times in one book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism and Sexual assault

corpseparty's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

tinylittlerat's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-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

2.75

i’ve been told that murakami is a great and underrated writer but after reading this he’s just another kid author with an okayish book, the book was so slow that i had to start multiple other books to get me out of the reading slump that this book put me into just so i could finish it, murakami writes like he’s never met a single woman in his life and was born dr doofenshmirtz style with just his father and other men present, the way that he talks about the

oedipus complex and rape of a teenage boy by his own mother

is absolutely disgusting, when i picked up this book i thought i would enjoy it and would find the story at least a little bit interesting but the ableism and pedophilia that he has written into this book can’t be separated from the story making for a grueling and unenjoyable read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, and Death

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Suicide

lara_hattingh's review against another edition

I was unaware of the brutal violence and incest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Pedophilia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

sydneybedell's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia