Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

16 reviews

sare1125's review

dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

addyson_raelynn's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I could not set this book down. I started it on a whim one night and finished it two days later. I read Beautiful Boy a couple years ago and absolutely loved it, and I feel the same about this book. My dad was an addict off and on from high school to his 30’s (I think?). He’s been clean and sober for many years now and I’m so proud of him, but since knowing and seeing his history, I have alway been curious and leaned toward reading books and consuming media about addiction. Tweak is hard to read. I think if you or someone you know has struggled with addiction, you can’t help but think about them when you’re reading stuff like this. But even still, this is genuinely one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. It’s so deeply honest. Nic is a phenomenal writer and artist. I admire him for telling his story without holding back. 
This is a long winded review, but this book is worth your time, if you’ve thought about picking it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit and Sexual content

taylorgraves555's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, and Addiction

Moderate: Cursing, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

thatchickengirl23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Blood, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

ellievelazquez's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, and Addiction

kather_doc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Self harm

joharrismay's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Nic Sheff is an amazing writer. I enjoyed his book and his fathers very much. Obviously they were hard to read knowing that happened to real life people. I wish they didn’t make this into a movie because people forget that Nic and David are actual people and they went through so much. This book did not hold back anything. It had so many difficult parts. This story is raw, emotional, tense, but also hopeful in a way. I recommend reading both books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Addiction, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Cursing

rabidmilfs's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

best book i have ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content

amize123's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

very well written, sad story but is a great read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Before getting into what this book offered, I need to mention the racial descriptions (and unnecessary and inaccurate accents by the audiobook reader), fatphobia, and subtle sexism were all highly offputting. That said, Tweak gives naked insight into one young man's path to, struggle with, and recovery from addiction. I am glad that I read what seems to be an accurate (or at least realistic) account of such an experience. I will carry this with me in my practice as a care-giver. That said, Nic Sheff did not write solely about crime and drug use. He wrote about introspection, spirituality, relationships, meaning, and healing. It may not be a highly necessary book (though maybe D.A.R.E. die-hards would suggest otherwise), but I am grateful nonetheless that I came across it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Drug use, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Infidelity, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Fatphobia and Adult/minor relationship