Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

106 reviews

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

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Medical content, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

mezzoanddolce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Suicide, and Pedophilia

gertsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Homophobia, and Suicide

bisexualwentworth's review against another edition

5.0

This is a classic for a reason. It's so layered and complex while also so efficient and straightforward. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Pedophilia

ncghammo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual content

ollieez's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Death, and Death of parent

astrangewind's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

When I read this book for the first time, I was 18, in my second semester of college. At that time, I hadn't come out yet - not even to myself. So when I read Fun Home back then, I thought it was kind of stupid. Now, nearly 8 years later, I find Fun Home to be not only important but necessary. Bechdel, by telling her own complicated story with her father, validates the complex feelings queer people often have about themselves and their relationships with others. The moment where she sees a butch truck driver for the first time resonates with how I felt wearing jeans for the first time in years - the realization that yes, there is an option. It inspires joy in the messiness of the queer experience, joy in loving and being loved, joy in life going on, despite the complexity. The graphic format suits Bechdel's writing style, and this story, better than I had thought; the panels link together effortlessly, and contribute their own tune to the written words describing them. It reads like a diary entry, itself messy and confused and unsure, much like Bechdel's childhood entries. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Gore, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Physical abuse

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship

sammyelliott_'s review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Cursing, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: War, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Drug use

There are multiple references to grooming of young boys by older men. There is one chapter which specifically discusses obsessive-compulsive behaviour with very detailed descriptions of the reasons and effects on her.