Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

81 reviews

jenniee_reads's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

Listening to the audiobook and actually hearing Matthew Perry talk about his life and struggles was truly heartbreaking. Listening to him talk about his hopes for the future was especially hard considering he passed away just about a year after this memoir was published. This was an emotional one but definitely worth a listen. An easy 5⭐️ read for me. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment and Mental illness

candyflosscurls's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Abandonment, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

holliesatchell's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Medical content, Cursing, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Vomit, Excrement, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

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

emilyandthewhippet's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Vomit, Body shaming, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Grief, Addiction, Medical trauma, Drug use, Fatphobia, and Infidelity

ritikaupadhyay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Abandonment, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

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

billievee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

 As you can imagine, this is a bit heartbreaking to get through now. So much of this book feels like grim foreshadowing for what was to come.

Chandler was always my favorite Friends character, but it's a little harder to like Matthew in this. I've heard him called the real-life Bojack Horseman and it's easy to see why: they're both former TV stars with crippling addictions who can't help but constantly get in their own way. His childhood trauma and ongoing struggles with drugs and alcohol are sad to read about, but I mostly felt for all the people who ended up as collateral damage in his life. At least he openly acknowledges his mistakes. If nothing else, I see this as a cautionary tale for how terribly out of control opiate and alcohol addictions can become, demons that all the money in the world may not be able to save you from.

RIP Matthew. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Cursing, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, and Chronic illness