Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

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

42 reviews

leefox's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug use, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Drug abuse

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

mollytrevena's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

meganfj's review

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcoholism

kaaylareads's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

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

terresee's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I genuinely have no words to describe the absolute heartbreak that is this book. David Sheff has a way with making you feel immersed within his life - as if you were the one facing this. His description of his life with Nic, the good and the bad, is captivating, and you can practically feel all the pain, the hope, the regrets, the guilt; everything. I have no words to express the amount of emotions I faced throughout this novel. The most jarring to me was the simultaneous dread and hope I felt. I would be a quarter or half way through reading, and it feels like "Yes, this is the one. Nic is going to stay sober this time,", 
but I know that there are still hundreds of pages left, and I know what that means for Nic. Of course, drug addiction recovery is not linear, but I could practically feel the desperation from David Sheff. I also found the ending extremely realistic, and while I had originally hoped for something more optimistic, upon a few days of sitting with my thoughts on the memoir, I realised that the ending was very true to the nature of an addiction/recovery. 
Everything about their journey together was heartbreaking, but full of light within the darkness. I wish for nothing but the best in both of their lives.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

kayrineck's review

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

mxfloral_'s review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, and Alcoholism