Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

103 reviews

blackberryjambaby's review

emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Suicide, Car accident, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Gore

becksusername's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Car accident, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Alcohol, Homophobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

smoldragon22's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Death

haileyhardcover's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

I don’t know how to rate this book, so I simply will not. Did I enjoy reading it? No, not particularly. It is awkward, painful, and unnecessarily sesquipedalian. Is it also incredible? Undoubtedly, yes. 

The amount of TIME that must’ve gone into writing - or more specifically DRAWING - all of this is mind blowing. With a cursory glance, one might look at Bechdel’s artistic style and think it unoriginal - similar to so many other comics we’ve seen before. But I beg you to look longer. Look at the detail; not in EVERY panel, but so many of them. Look at all of the WORDS. There are so many words - beyond the captions and the speech/thought ballons, so often the art of the panels themselves are just words - snippets from letters, journals, books, newspapers, court records, or the dictionary… and it’s all hand drawn?! I can’t begin to imagine how much time this would take… 

Fun Home is not fun. I cannot say I enjoyed reading it, but I also absolutely cannot deny that it’s a masterpiece. I have no idea how they could’ve turned this into a musical… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

alexisgarcia's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

i think some topics weren’t explored enough, but the story was important and the art style was really nice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Infidelity, Death, Outing, Suicide, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

fitzy_'s review

dark funny lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

kirkspockreads's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Medical content, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

mezzoanddolce's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Suicide, and Pedophilia

erint251's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Alison does such a good job at letting you in to her life that her story feels relatable, despite it being such a unique set of circumstances 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Death

Moderate: Homophobia

pobi's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

It was very good, and relatively thought provoking but I didn't really love it. Then again, memoir are not often my favourite, and neither are sad books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse and Adult/minor relationship