Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

101 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

teddybo's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia

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

bgoodbookclub's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I don’t know anyone else who has read this book so I don’t have anyone to talk to about it so I think I’ll have to really think about it for a while to decide what I thought!

I really liked the format of this book, especially because it’s so unique to an autobiography! It’s also very honest which I really liked.

I both liked and was confused by all of the literary references. I enjoyed them but I also haven’t read any of the books referenced so they confused me at times and I had to re-read some passages.

I was very intrigued by Bechdel’s complicated relationship with her family, especially her dad and how she wrote about it. It’s very difficult to feel completely one way about a family member (good or bad), especially in Bechdel’s situation. I’m glad that she was honest about both parts through her writing, his problems and complications and also her good memories. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

arieljade21's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia and Infidelity

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

gertsbooks's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Homophobia, and Suicide

bisexualwentworth's review

5.0

This is a classic for a reason. It's so layered and complex while also so efficient and straightforward. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Pedophilia