Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier

32 reviews

ferns80's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and War

twy's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Terminal illness

ozdensl's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Gun violence, Incest, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child abuse

If you are triggered by simulation theory and/or questions of reality you might want to be careful with this book

waterwolves's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Homophobia, Incest, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Murder

frank365's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective tense

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

5.0

Un aereo Parigi-New York atterra in una giornata di giugno e viene dirottato a una base militare americana. Quell'aereo ha una particolarità: a bordo ci sono gli stessi passeggeri e lo stesso equipaggio di un altro aereo atterrato tre mesi prima.
Ci si trova davanti a un caso inedito: più di 200 persone si ritrovano a fare i conti con sé stessi di tre mesi prima, nel frattempo alcuni di loro hanno vissuto avventure differenti, mentre altri dovranno condividere persone e cose con il loro nuovo doppio.
Un libro scritto molto bene e con un finale inaspettato. Consigliato.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

town_scar's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

torismazarine's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Self harm, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kouran94's review against another edition

mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Murder

jencolumb0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

A multi-layered exploration into life, the universe, and everything, with a lot of wry side-swipes at pop culture as a lot of Big Questions are posed and Core Assumptions challenged. This book manages to be thought-provoking without bogging itself down. It echoed Amores Perros for me, but border, deeper, and . . . French. The cast of characters is almost unwieldy but that observation (or even discomfort), in itself, encourages the reader down a separate rabbit hole of thought and reflection. This is not the book you pick up when you simply want a story to get lost in. It is far better suited to those nights in which you miss your university philosophy course work but don’t want to actually dig out, dust off, or dive into the original texts. For the right moment, an outstanding jumping off-point for some interesting thought experiments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Suicide, and Pregnancy

Minor: Genocide, Vomit, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Specific issues to flag generally covered by the content warnings above: graphic description of dismemberment, passing reference to tattoos from German concentration camps during WWII, and discussion of incestuous child sex abuse that provides the general idea of what happened but does not get into too many details and is positively resolved.

maneatingbadger's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

Best novel I've read in a while. First third is typical setup, the rest I could not put down. Audibly laughed and gasped at several points, often back-to-back. It really nails the the sense of foreboding and dawning realization of what's about to happen, and then exploring the consequences. Verisimilitude is spot-on, though as always I could do with a bit more worldbuilding, some more answers to all the structural questions raised. The metaphysical debates are a tad predictable but fun. I'm curious how recognizable the celebrity/VIP cameos will be in a few years. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Murder

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Religious bigotry