Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Demian by Hermann Hesse

15 reviews

riozul's review against another edition

funny inspiring 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? Yes

i get him (solemnly nods)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Stalking, War, and Suicide attempt

lio_ramon_dolor's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Bullying

Minor: Suicide attempt

lycheeteareads's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

Moderate: War and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death

endlayer's review against another edition

hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

genuinely changed my life and is one of the most influential books ive ever read. i cannot reccomend it enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Bullying

Minor: Alcoholism and Suicide attempt

focuses on christian religion quite a bit so if that's an issue i would reccomend avoiding. the beginning of the book also has a focus on sinclair being bullied. sinclair has a lot of suicidal thoughts, and

finds someone about to commit suicide at one point.

paradicsomleves's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense 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: Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Incest, War, and Death

katbenimble's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.5

This is a coming-of-age story that I don't think really was relatable for me.  Well, I take that back.  A lot of the religious information was incredibly relatable to my childhood, so there was some camaraderie there.  It's a relatively short book, but I guess I was expecting more of an obvious philosophical revelation at the end?  We read this in my bookclub, so it was fascinating to do research on the author and had a lot of fun with that.  Would probably not pick up any of his other works though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Suicide attempt

Moderate: War and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

livelaughomo'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

Moderate: Alcoholism, War, and Suicide attempt

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

juliana05's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: War and Suicide attempt

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Bullying

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

Minor: Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and Incest

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.