Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

50 reviews

abbie_reads_books's review

funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

kirstieanya's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Suicide, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Self harm, Medical trauma, Death, Mental illness, and Cancer

Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia

coralcrab77's review

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

nialystic's review

funny reflective medium-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Addiction, and Mental illness

abicaro17's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is one of the better memoirs i've listened too. I think Maria is hilarious and I'd totally go to her show. Again the book ends a little abruptly but I think the formatting is fun. The chapters are divided up into separate "cults" and chunks of her life. I appreciate that she keeps the timeline pretty easy to follow and describes what's happening year wise as well. I think I would have appreciated more of a conclusion other than her own twelve step program creation. The PDF of pictures and all the recipes were such a cute addition! I'd definitely recommend this as a good starter memoir. Very easy to listen to and funny while being serious. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Death of parent, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Body shaming, Death, Dysphoria, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, Child abuse, Confinement, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

sertzo19's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

If you love Maria Bamford, you will no doubt love this book! It’s as fun, twisted, sad and (potentially) relatable as you’d expect. Oftentimes I found myself pivoting from tears to laughs (within the same paragraph). My main problem with Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult is that it takes a few chapters to get into the rhythm of Maria’s writing style but once you’re tuned in, it’s a breeze! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

dexkit10's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

chelseakasten's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

4.5

As a lover of dark comedy and sufferer of “the mentals,” I found this book to be hysterical. I laughed out loud frequently; there’s even a sense of levity during the most deeply serious of topics. 

As noted in the intro, this book doesn’t have much structure. Overall I wasn’t bothered by this although there were a few pieces where I felt there could have been more of an editorial or stylistic transition to note the end of a story. At times, it seemed like small but delightful stories (like the peanut butter pug face for Nick Kroll) were unceremoniously crammed into larger stories without an ending, thereby giving the feeling that I missed something in my reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Animal death

alicesayshi's review

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5

Wasn’t into it at first but improved about a third in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, and Eating disorder

amaralikecamera's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Death of parent, and Mental illness