Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

7 reviews

missgrangerr's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

issyd23's review against another edition

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

3.0

Lena Dunham is far from perfect, and despite what people say, she is a good comedy writer and GIRLS is actually funny 3👧

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Abortion, Acephobia/Arophobia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Outing, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Medical content, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Biphobia, Infertility, Eating disorder, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Rape

jelen's review against another edition

2.25

Terribly offensive towards multiple collectives. Also, brilliantly written, engaging and relatable in some parts of it. So difficult to rate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

jbabbm's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

Funny as Lena Dunham can be, but not hilarious enough for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Eating disorder

gracejmoore's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.0

I’m in the small majority who thinks Girls is one of the best comedies of all time so I had to check this out especially considering all the controversy. Touching on that first I have never heard of something so blown out of proportion. Reading through it I couldn’t believe the way people made it out to be sexual assault when it was clearly a young child with no malicious intentions. There are definitely things to critique Lena Dunham for but this is not it. Beyond that I enjoyed the book it’s not life changing and I’m not sure any of it will leave an impact on me long term but it was a decent read.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

annabelle42688's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

2.25

This is very complicated. I enjoyed parts of this book, but many of things described about Lena's relationship with her sister were triggering.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Child abuse

This books describes child/child molestation without addressing it. It was very weird and disturbing.

helendipietro's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

2.0

Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy this one. I thought I was going to love it but I felt like I was being thrown about from anecdote to anecdote and could never really get into anything of substance. Several of Lena’s stories seemed a bit pointless and they didn’t link very well.

I liked the commentary on growing up but I just expected more from it. I related to the section titled ‘My Top 10 Health Concerns’ which explores how we can go crazy worrying about things that might go wrong! I also thought the email writing section was a great idea but again they weren’t fully developed and it moved on so quickly to the next section. Her writing is very descriptive which I like but often was too much information needed for what she was talking about. 

Overall I was disappointed and won’t be reading this again.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault