Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

12 reviews

abernathy_33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and War

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

prichard's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

countofpoictesme's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

francesnah's review against another edition

funny reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

Pretty fantastic. There are some dense conversations about mathematics or philosophy that can be hard to follow but overall it’s a great conversation that is actually way funnier than people give it credit for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Rape

vince_ant's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

Truly an interesting and philosophical book. More so as it went along. Lots of really interesting concepts and topics brought up and explored. 
It’s a unique type of book, written completely in dialogue between two characters: an unstable math genius and her psychiatrist/therapist (idk the correct term) at a mental hospital she checks herself into. 
Did I fully understand everything they(she) talked about? No probably not. But I do actually think I got most of it and McCarthy did a good job of making, the math stuff especially, fairly accessible. Inchresting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Incest, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

emmonsannae's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

This is a great companion novel to The Passenger—probably not as great of a standalone (which is fine, that isn’t its purpose). It was neat to get to know Alicia as a person on her own terms but man those terms are bleak. Definitely some extremely not-fun moments. I’d recommend this book but not to anyone with an intense fear of drowning. Or any of the other 18 content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Confinement, Death, and Grief

knorkemann's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

christiek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.5

Pretty sure most of this went over my head, but I somehow still enjoyed the reading experience. I have no idea why I hung with it and read the whole thing. I guess I found it interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

michaelkurt's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

This is a very well written account from two first person narrators. It takes these themes very seriously and does not use them for shock.

gmjohnson's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

3.5

Don’t think I would have enjoyed as much if I didn’t have a background in science

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt