Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

83 reviews

teddybo's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia

ehwesson's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

babbieabbi's review

challenging sad medium-paced

3.5

I really feel for Alison and all the other people depicted in this book. She clearly has very complex feelings about her family, and it definitely makes me reflect on my own family dynamics. Although there are many many differences, the mixed emotions are portrayed extremely well. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

ncghammo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual content

bashsbooks's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

I can see why this memoir is so popular and formative. Bechdel has a gift for weaving her father's queer story with her own, rife with literary references to connect them both. I would have probably given this 5 stars, but I am also reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For right now, and I think Bechdel is better at writing a fictional comic serial than a memoir. Totally different genres, though. Both worth reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Car accident, Grief, Suicide, Lesbophobia, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Infidelity