Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

60 reviews

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.75

Bradbury clearly has a beautiful writing style. The beginning of this book is breathtaking—I wish Clarisse had appeared more often throughout the rest of the book. Despite the book being obviously dated, I do think some aspects of his dystopian world were surprisingly parallel to our present. For some people to see that, of course, they’d need to think about it critically, something that can be lacking in our insular world (Bradbury definitely got that one right). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Addiction, Suicide, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief, Death, Child death, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, War, and Abortion

emcasmith's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide attempt

fluture's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative 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

2.5

When I read this book, I couldn't help but wondering when it will be finished. The premise is unique—how books were seen as sins and how people just start burning books—but the words that are used in this book aren't enjoyable enough for me to read and keep a long span of attention. I keep realizing how I zoned out in the middle of reading each paragraph, wondering what is the real meaning behind each word.

This book is probably more suitable or enjoyable for you who like philosophical talks. If you're patient enough, the story gets a bit better at the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, Death, Gore, Murder, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Fire/Fire injury

winterwriter_9's review

challenging 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death and War

johannarose's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Self harm, War, Genocide, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abortion, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

lucyford's review

dark reflective tense 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

It’s a classic for a reason. I just read it a second time (the first time wasn’t by choice), and I’ll never get over how good the world-building and descriptions were. Definitely a book everyone should read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Police brutality

camille570912's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: War, Suicide, Child death, and Death

meganio's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

keepsleep's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Murder, Violence, and War

tarines316's review

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is a very interesting representation of censorship that parallels attitudes and actions seen during the Nazi book burnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide and Kidnapping