Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

105 reviews

radikaliseradgroda's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad

5.0

This is probably my favourite book. I've re-read it countless times and it always has something new to tell me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Child abuse, Alcohol, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Infidelity

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

joensign's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

elm2091's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Homophobia

pandorasirens's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Pedophilia

blackberryjambaby's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Suicide, Car accident, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Gore

teddybo's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

I don’t know how to rate this book, so I simply will not. Did I enjoy reading it? No, not particularly. It is awkward, painful, and unnecessarily sesquipedalian. Is it also incredible? Undoubtedly, yes. 

The amount of TIME that must’ve gone into writing - or more specifically DRAWING - all of this is mind blowing. With a cursory glance, one might look at Bechdel’s artistic style and think it unoriginal - similar to so many other comics we’ve seen before. But I beg you to look longer. Look at the detail; not in EVERY panel, but so many of them. Look at all of the WORDS. There are so many words - beyond the captions and the speech/thought ballons, so often the art of the panels themselves are just words - snippets from letters, journals, books, newspapers, court records, or the dictionary… and it’s all hand drawn?! I can’t begin to imagine how much time this would take… 

Fun Home is not fun. I cannot say I enjoyed reading it, but I also absolutely cannot deny that it’s a masterpiece. I have no idea how they could’ve turned this into a musical… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

i think some topics weren’t explored enough, but the story was important and the art style was really nice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Infidelity, Death, Outing, Suicide, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

bgoodbookclub's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I don’t know anyone else who has read this book so I don’t have anyone to talk to about it so I think I’ll have to really think about it for a while to decide what I thought!

I really liked the format of this book, especially because it’s so unique to an autobiography! It’s also very honest which I really liked.

I both liked and was confused by all of the literary references. I enjoyed them but I also haven’t read any of the books referenced so they confused me at times and I had to re-read some passages.

I was very intrigued by Bechdel’s complicated relationship with her family, especially her dad and how she wrote about it. It’s very difficult to feel completely one way about a family member (good or bad), especially in Bechdel’s situation. I’m glad that she was honest about both parts through her writing, his problems and complications and also her good memories. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

arieljade21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual content

Minor: Pedophilia and Infidelity