Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

66 reviews

stories's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

2.5

Read for book club. 
There were structurally elements I really enjoyed, and reams of intertextuality that flew over my head. 
Loved a lot of the details in the background of the illustrations, and found it pleasingly easy to follow despite my lack of experience with graphic novels. 

Not what I expected, knowing that it had been turned into a musical, although I’m not sure what it was that I did expect. 

An engaging read - I pretty much read in a single sitting. 

((Personally, I found the most powerful beats all fell in the opening chapter))

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, Car accident, and Death

readandfindout's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Style/writing: 3 stars
Themes: 4 stars 
Perspective: 2.5 stars (I have really complicated feelings because of how the adult-minor relationships were never really addressed in the narrative?)
Art: 3 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Grief, Infidelity, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia

theojwest's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Car accident, Homophobia, Death, and Death of parent

ha1yan's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia and Mental illness

A few panels with dead bodies in an embalming room. One of the bodies is severely injured in the chest (could count as body horror-ish)

town_scar's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Body horror, Cursing, Outing, Sexual content, Grief, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, and Violence

readingpicnic's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Domestic abuse

garynoplastie's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Suicide

firstaidkit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Suicide, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

mallory's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Great storytelling and an interesting memoir. Personally I didn't relate to any of Bechdel's life, and probably would have been easier to understand if I knew more of the literary references she made throughout the book, but it was an interesting memoir regardless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Homophobia, and Infidelity