Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth, by Hermann Hesse

8 reviews

aritag's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

tori21's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual content, Classism, Grief, Racism, Stalking, War, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Incest, Islamophobia, and Antisemitism

The relationship between the protagonist and the title character, which can be read as romantic, has an age gap of several years, which in the case of this interpretation is questionable given that they first met as children. There are also some uncomfortably romantic interactions between the protagonist and the title character's mother.

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: War, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

miiamatu'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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

cutepatzie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

It really makes you questions if religions,  not using you. Make you ask a lot of questions about what you believe. Very philosophical focus on idea of new religion, a new way of thinking and breaking the old long not updated ideas and more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Incest, Bullying, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, War, Alcoholism, Death, and Drug use

ailli1's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

jwells's review against another edition

challenging 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

Really interesting to read this in conjunction with Siddhartha. They share a theme of needing to learn from within yourself, not from teachers, books, or the past. Demian seems to understand this, while the narrator only gets it in the moment when he finally rejects poor Pistorius. It's a funny theme for a writer to try and teach us (are we supposed to be learning this theme from Hesse's books?)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War