Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

30 reviews

infectedarea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Murder, Kidnapping, Genocide, and Death

shaleen64's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ordinarily a book that poses questions and then leaves them unanswered is frustrating. However, in this instance it leads you to the point of the book which is to consider what makes a human, human. Aside from dystopian it is difficult to define the genre of this book however I think it’s a book most readers should read as it is unlike anything else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Suicide, and Miscarriage

allyem_reads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Death

wytnie's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.75

I liked it but i feel some things may have gone over my head and i'd love to read it again or get other peoples opinions on what happened.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Suicide

phoevincent's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Deportation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Suicide, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, and Gore

mjmiller_'s review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Excrement, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide attempt

kers_tin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

For a book without many men in it this focused a lot on them which I found slightly baffling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Suicide, Terminal illness, Confinement, and Cancer

sydneylount's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cancer, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Infertility, and Kidnapping

esztertth's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

This became one of my favourite books alongside the Memory Police and Our Wives Under the Sea. 

Don' t read the preface first, however, Sophie Mackintosh's words summize the novel best:

No life is ordinary, the book seems to say. No life is without hope, without light, even during the unimaginable. (...)
How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Death

196books's review

dark mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Blood and Cancer

Minor: Terminal illness