Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

El Castillo de Cristal by Jeannette Walls

227 reviews

halloween_writes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Medical content, Racial slurs, Rape, Alcohol, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Addiction, Bullying, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent

vanessagrausam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Sexual assault

op3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Sexual assault, Cursing, Bullying, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abandonment

Mentions of neglect

whatthesquids's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Addiction, Racism, Child abuse, and Racial slurs

aidyncs's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Racial slurs, and Alcoholism

laerkelikesreading's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

rileyyy02's review against another edition

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

3.5

Had to read for class but actually enjoyed it. Very “make your life your own” sort of story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Classism, Abandonment, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

The moderate stuff is only what I can remember but I know there’s more. Don’t read if any of that is a trigger.

ocoury23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

*Review based on experiencing the book as an audiobook

I don’t know if I have the words to express how I felt about this book. It made me laugh, cry, scream in frustration, and gasp in shock with almost every page. It was heartbreaking, gut wrenching, and exhilarating and I am in awe of the author’s strength to share her story. I highly recommend listening to the audiobook as the author narrates it herself which is the icing on the cake. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault

hcop's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Addiction, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism, Bullying, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

Minor: Child death

celerydawg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

A book everyone should read. Will make you appreciate your parents, even if they weren't the best. Lots of trauma, very sad-- but Jeannette Walls does such a great job of showing the good moments in her childhood and the things she admires about her parents even as she details chapter after chapter of neglect and abuse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Child abuse