Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

5 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

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

astrangewind's review

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

When I read this book for the first time, I was 18, in my second semester of college. At that time, I hadn't come out yet - not even to myself. So when I read Fun Home back then, I thought it was kind of stupid. Now, nearly 8 years later, I find Fun Home to be not only important but necessary. Bechdel, by telling her own complicated story with her father, validates the complex feelings queer people often have about themselves and their relationships with others. The moment where she sees a butch truck driver for the first time resonates with how I felt wearing jeans for the first time in years - the realization that yes, there is an option. It inspires joy in the messiness of the queer experience, joy in loving and being loved, joy in life going on, despite the complexity. The graphic format suits Bechdel's writing style, and this story, better than I had thought; the panels link together effortlessly, and contribute their own tune to the written words describing them. It reads like a diary entry, itself messy and confused and unsure, much like Bechdel's childhood entries. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Gore, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Physical abuse

icedcreams's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

megg's review

dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Medical content, Infidelity, Homophobia, Grief, Gore, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Pregnancy