Reviews tagging 'War'

Kafka på stranden by Haruki Murakami

66 reviews

clusterf_cked's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

vitasf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Nothing new, nothing revolutionary. Murakami’s depiction of women proves to be incredibly one dimensional and this book certainly fails the Bechdel test. Nakata, the older protagonist, should have been the primary character and the novel would have benefited from losing its titular character, Kafka. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Rape

Moderate: Violence and War

entommoore's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape

Minor: War

lio_ramon_dolor's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

sara_malo's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault and War

traciereads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Incest

Minor: War

soumil_da_vinci's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.75

It's like fine wine.
Everyone won't like it.
You will have to read some other stuff,other classic books, a taste of magic realism and all that before you get here.
The ending is criticised by many but once you start reading it you will understand the flow, how the story is and by the time you reach the end you will understand why it ends like that even though you might not agree to the ending. Hell, you might not like the whole story but the time won't surely be wasted.
I highly recommend it to one and all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

avidreadr's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Like most of Murakami’s novels, this is a story about diving into one’s subconscious. Fighting  the darkness inside.  About fate, and responsibility, and time. 

Obviously the incest sections are beyond disturbing. I vacillate between understanding the “point” of these weird encounters and just really hating it and thinking it’s extraneous. Miss Saeki I can kind of understand but Sakura’s dream scene is beyond my comprehension

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Incest, and War

mirandyli's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

A trippy combo of Catcher in the Rye and Oedipus Rex. Slow moving at times. Not sure what the takeaway was supposed to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and War

sylvermist's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Incest, Rape, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: War