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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

18 reviews

aus10england's review

funny fast-paced

3.25

This book unfortunately is a victim of false advertising. While the stories from the author are entertaining and raunchy, I was hoping for more pop culture analysis about all things tacky!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

nonfictionfeminist's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

kitschysweater's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, and Body shaming

kurumipanda's review

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Pedophilia, and Body shaming

itschelseaw's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

An ode to the "tackiest" things in our modern culture, and the ways they interacted with King's life in one way or another, what's not to like? As someone who loves tacky things unabashedly, I was really excited to read this one. I came in with minor expectations that it would be more of a rumination on tackiness as a whole rather than personal essays relating to the tacky subject at hand, but wasn't displeased when I realized what the book actually was. I never thought I'd be reading about Jersey Shore and crying while remembering my dad his own unique "bad taste" in things that had no intersection with the Jersey Shore.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Emotional abuse

karpetking's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual violence

odrib's review

funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

rachelle_sheep's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Drug use

havlisar's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

2.0

I had high hopes for this book but it didn't live up. As a reader I really enjoy essays and critique of  culture. However, this didn't really feel like that after the first few chapters. It felt a little bit more like reading someone's diary but not in a fun way. I applaud Rax for being so open and the moments when she did juxtapose culture with her experiences were well done - but too much of the box wasn't that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Drug use

vkitoria's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

genius. what IS so scary about sincerity and loving things wholeheartedly without a trace of irony?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death of parent