Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

42 reviews

music_girl84's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Excrement, Grief, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Abandonment, Drug use, and Sexual content

jennameyers's review against another edition

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

4.0

I really enjoyed listening to this book! Matthew Perry narrated it and I always love hearing memoirs from the authors voice. Overall, I thought this book shed so much light on the troubles of addiction and how growth is not always linear. My only reason for giving it 4 stars and not 5 was that some parts felt a little redundant and some of the timelines would get confusing (but that’s more something a good editor could have fixed). 
Overall, this was a great read and I loved to hear the stories of his life!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

lay_kone's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug use, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Medical content, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Vomit

likeagilmoregirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Vomit, Addiction, Drug use, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

beklovesbooks's review

dark emotional sad

2.5

The whole thing is just so sad knowing in the end his addiction won out. It’s also difficult to hear how much he used women. Ultimately, his story makes sense- he had a real set up in life to be a drug addict . He references the Big book and 12-step a lot. There’s a little about his friends co-stars and tons of other name-dropping. Heartbreaking, but Just ok. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Medical content, Sexual content, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Toxic friendship, Cursing, and Sexism

Minor: Ableism, Vomit, Violence, and Abandonment

suzannewilliamson1's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Drug use, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment and Sexual content

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book has been on my radar since last year, and I was all the more eager to read it after the untimely passing of Matthew Perry.
"Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing" is an autobiography that is written (and narrated) by renowned actor, Matthew Perry. Matthew's road to fame was not simple, and he faced several challenges in his childhood that continued to haunt him into adulthood. When he finally got his big break on "Friends", he thought everything would be great, but he quickly learned that his addictions demanded more attention and could cost him everything he worked his life to achieve.
I listened to this book on audio, and it was even more special to hear Matthew's words directly from his lips. The story also felt all the more haunting because in the prologue, Matthew makes a joke about this book being from beyond the grave, because he had died, but survived.
Although I am a big fan of "Friends", I never followed the actor's careers after the success of the show. So, reading about what Matthew Perry's life has been like over the past twenty years, since the ending of "Friends", was heartbreaking, but inspiring. Matthew struggled with addictions for the majority of his life, and everything really came to a head when he almost died. In spite of his struggles, he always tried to work to be better and gain control over his life. I think hearing stories like this are invaluable for people who are deep in their own struggles. No one is safe from the clutches of drugs and alcohol, and having success and money can actually just exacerbate the problems.
I really enjoyed learning more about Matthew Perry, and I hope he has finally found peace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Addiction, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual content

whatapeach's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content

teacupsandfirereads's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

This memoir is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. I think Matthew did an amazing job of showing the reality of addiction and what it is like in different forms. He did not shy away or sugar coat the ugly, difficult parts of it. For that, I think he deserves all the credit. Though is seemed a bit haphazard at times, I think it was an important part of it. Knowing he is now gone, makes it even more heartbreaking because you can tell he was really trying to do better. But addiction is a hard thing. He said it himself, addicts are not bad people.

PS. I did not watch Friends

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Addiction, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual content

mandolin77's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Addiction, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual content, Excrement, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Cursing, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship