Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

4 reviews

readylabook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Excrement, Sexual harassment, Violence, Vomit, Addiction, Blood, Gun violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Lesbophobia

lavinia_speaks's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Hunter Thompson does modern take on Hell.  The wolf was seen in Inferno Cant I.  Translation from https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/inferno/inferno-1/: “Maladetta sie tu, antica lupa, / che più che tutte l’altre bestie hai preda / per la tua fame sanza fine cupa!” (Cursed be you, ancient wolf, who more than all the other beasts have prey, because of your deep hunger without end! [Purg. 20.10-12])

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Rape, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

iris_garden's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, and Mental illness

Minor: Vomit, Excrement, Death, and Racial slurs

toasterposter15's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

5.0

An amazing book. I love the way it’s written and it’s so funny. There’s very few scenes where I don’t die laughing. It’s everything I want in a book. It is a book where nothing and everything happens. It’s hard to describe. Is it a little problematic? Yes it is but it’s written by a white man so what did you expect? 

My favorite scene come when they go to the cop convention and tell one of the cops that they are starting to cut the heads off of drug users

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism and Rape

There is a lot of drug use in the book and at one point a character spirals thinking people are after him