Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

252 reviews

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

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

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

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, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, and Alcohol

greta_dn's review against another edition

funny reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

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: Sexual content and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Pedophilia

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

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

hayleymunro's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

mezzoanddolce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense

2.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

erint251's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Alison does such a good job at letting you in to her life that her story feels relatable, despite it being such a unique set of circumstances 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia

pobi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

It was very good, and relatively thought provoking but I didn't really love it. Then again, memoir are not often my favourite, and neither are sad books. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

gertsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Suicide