Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

10 reviews

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

satsumaorange's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

What a unique look into the mind of one of the most influential lesbian artists I know of! I found many of Bechdel's experiences profoundly relatable, and I actually teared up a few times. Essential reading for the sapphics with daddy issues out there (I see you <3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Grief, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Minor: Body shaming, Outing, Cursing, Drug use, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

This is the Lesbian Daddy Issues book, so if that kind of thing is triggery, this isn't the book for you. There are also illustrations of (sometimes naked) dead bodies, and (thankfully unrelated) illustrations of sex. This isn't a book to read in public, probably.

kaimetcalfe's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

waytoomanybooks's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

There's nothing I can say about Fun Home that hasn't already been said by better, smarter people with better, smarter vocabulary, so I'll just say that I found this book deeply relatable, deeply sad, and deeply hopeful. It's a gorgeous book with gorgeous prose and gorgeous illustrations. I highly recommend it, but it's not for the faint of heart. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Car accident, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

abbyj_04's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

it was a little hard to understand at times, but overall i enjoyed it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Outing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pedophilia and Adult/minor relationship

mimeflower's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content

town_scar's review

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Body horror, Cursing, Outing, Sexual content, Grief, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, and Violence

firstaidkit's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Suicide, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

boy_topics's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

A queer masterpiece. Complicated, beautiful. Rich with literary allusions. A queer English major's wet dream. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

nicmgray's review

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Mental illness