Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

3 reviews

jsteighn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, and Animal death

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Infidelity, Child abuse, Suicide, Police brutality, Death, and Drug abuse

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

This was a difficult one to read.  I think if there is an audiobook version it might work better that way since it is written very much in the style that the author does comedy, so it can be very jarring with regular changes in font and abrupt asides.

Overall, it was interesting to read someone’s experience with mental health treatment, but it was made very obvious that it was from a privileged perspective.  Some of the advice given was offensive at best and dangerous at worst (joining a cult, while on brand for the book is not a good idea for the majority).

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

frogggirl2's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

4.0

This book is messy and all over the place -  which is sort of the point and totally on brand.  I'm not a huge fan of memoirs and I didn't find this hugely helpful for myself or informative necessarily.  What I do feel is important for a comedian's memoir is that I frequently found this funny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Mental illness