Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami

379 reviews

amymarchlawrence's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Gore, Blood, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Medical content

unicornbanzaiiking's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense

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

2.0

This is like reading the nightmare trainwreck that is Neon Genesis Evangelion. Oh wait, you liked that? Then this book is for you. Unless of course it isn't. You know what I mean? Unless you don't and that's ok, it doesn't have to make sense...and it doesn't really matter anyway. If you read this book or don't, it's all the same, because I read it so that means you read it. You know what I mean? It's a metaphor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

steakumm_jakeumm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Incest

entommoore's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape

Minor: War

norliuwu's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Incest, and Death

Minor: Blood

williamullholm's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

ericispublius's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

A lot of mysteries in this piece, unraveled slowly unto the end — we walked away with some unanswered. Murakami knits a world that rhymes with ours, but is eerily different. He taps into Japanese folklore in a way that is easy to pick up for the novice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Rape, Incest, Transphobia, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Violence

addiew's review against another edition

Dull, boring, pointless, and has animal torture 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

lio_ramon_dolor's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Violence, Death, Sexism, Blood, Gore, Misogyny, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: War

anamelon's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

0.25

One of those books where if there was an accidental fire in a library and this was the only book that was burnt, the library would actually become better. 

This book was mostly a bunch of nonsensical drivel built up to look like a well put together castle meant to give you the impression that it is actually grand and outstanding.

Reading this was a huge waste of time. The writing itself was mediocre with no nuance or any type of impressive prose. 
The only mildly interesting plot points were the initial interviews of the children fainting and following Nakata's journey and his dynamic with Hoshino, though even that turned quite insipid towards the end. 
I can definitely see why Murakami is said to be the Colleen Hoover of Japan. Bad pacing, bad storytelling, flat characters, no real character to the story itself just an air of pretentiousness to the story made to make you think "this is so intellectual I could never understand it". 
I always try finding any type of positivity from books I read, even those I hate with a passion like Prince Harry's "Spare" which was so bad to the point of hilarity, at least. I can't even say that for this book, just relies on a bunch of shock value one after the other to make it memorable in some way because God knows its writing isn't enough to be remarkable. Only time I've read Murakami and I wish for anyone else to spare themselves and not make the same mistake

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Animal cruelty