Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

8 reviews

sylda's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

jvondru's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

Absolutely chaotic, vomitous, spewing forth of words. An anxiety filled, stream of consciousness memoir that spares no one, not even the author himself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Cursing, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Grief

ross_cant_shut_up's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism and Racial slurs

wayward's review against another edition

challenging dark funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

2.0

I hope Toph is okay these days.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

skysometimesreads's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Death

mattycakes's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Domestic abuse

cepbreed's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad tense slow-paced

3.0

This book was my summer reading that I put of until the second week of school. Due to the circumstances I can’t exactly say that I enjoyed it, but it was incredibly interesting. The life of Dave Eggers reads like fiction. It was a rollercoaster of emotions and sometimes pity. In fact his life was straight coping for the majority. As a narrator he is candid and flawed, raw in the best possible ways. He does not sugarcoat, he is not egotistical and I was deeply touched by this. At some points I had to look up the pop culture references just to ground myself that this book is indeed reality.

Song:

• We Are Young - Fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Vomit, Medical trauma, Medical content, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Cancer, Grief, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Suicide, Addiction, Self harm, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship

adriennne's review

dark funny reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Death, Body horror, and Alcoholism

Minor: Excrement and Blood