Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

6 reviews

d3m1_r34ds's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

so sad and informative on all points of views not just the drug users view

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicide, Child death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Cancer, and Medical content

natalie75's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug use, Blood, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Animal death and Cursing

thatchickengirl23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity and Animal death

reemoony's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

in one part, he says that nic would watch movies like requiem for a dream, movies that are supposed to dissuade you from drugs, and he would want to get high. i have never in my life related to anything more. i always thought something was wrong with me, and maybe it is, but this book helps. it shows the real story, not a hollywood version. it shows how much they love nic, but couldn’t stand him. they love him more than anything and it ruined them for years. i love this book more than anything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Addiction, Drug use, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

raelin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

What feels like an honest reflection on the struggles of being the family member of a person struggling with addiction. 

I appreciated the times when David really  stopped to analyze whether what he remembered is true or just how he has painted things in his memory. 

I am immediately off to read Nic’s book Tweak. 

As a person with a family member who is newly in recovery I was very interested in hearing someone else tell their story of how the addiction effected them, even though they were not the one using. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

amyringland's review

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Drug use