Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

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

11 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Drug use, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Abandonment, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Dementia and Ableism

iinasomnia's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, Drug abuse, Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

hannahwillacy's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Body horror, and Mental illness

microbemom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

The same stories are repeated.  This book could have been 100 pages shorter.

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Content Warnings

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

vickytickytavi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

1.5

i only finished this book because im too prideful to dnf it. 

this man is an example of the bojack horseman archetype. he is stuck up on his time on friends and has not much else to show for afterward, he is a total misogynist, and ultimately he has not and will not take any sort of accountability for the shitty things he has done. everything is always someone else fault. uhhh okay???? he had every privilege in the world and was still like, "i'd rather be anyone else" please stop. 

but i digress, since the review is not about the contents as much as it is about the writing. i will give him props for being so open and vulnerable to judgemental readers, like myself, about how shitty he is and how shitty his life decisions are. it must be difficult to bear the ugliness and the truth of addiction. the writing itself though is really repetitive and the tone is extremely sarcastic and even condescending?? idk what i was expecting tho. all in all, not worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Body horror, Death, Drug use, and Excrement

meezan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Medical content

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Body horror

aaliya87's review

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug abuse, Abandonment, and Cursing

Minor: Car accident and Chronic illness

ajnagle's review against another edition

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

3.75

I grew up watching Friends so when I saw this book being published I knew I had to read it. 
It definitely gives you a deep understanding into the mind of an addict, and it can be hard to read at times which is a given for difficult topics.
In true Chandler Bing style, it wasn't all dark. There was a lot of humour throughout the entire book and I think it was balanced really well.
Towards the end the book starts repeating itself a lot (which can happen when the book is going between past and present every few chapters) but there was such repetition in the last couple chapters I thought I had accidentally re-read the same pages. 
Overall I did enjoy the read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Drug abuse, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Alcoholism, Addiction, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Body horror

wulfhorstmom's review against another edition

challenging dark funny inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug abuse, and Drug use

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

This is quite the memoir. It’s so interesting all that he’s been through. He’s right. He probably shouldn’t be alive. It would be a higher ranking but honestly, it seems like he still hasn’t truly learned all he could. I feel worse for everyone who came across his path than for him. But hey, maybe that’s just what honesty gets you. If you want to read about an unbelievable life, it’s a great memoir. I just want to root for the person writing it and that was a little tough. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Self harm, Addiction, Alcohol, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, and Medical trauma