Reviews tagging 'Death'

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

10 reviews

arrianne's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Death

sgjohnson2001's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Classism, Death, Drug use, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, and Violence

dstone6298's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Bullying

tesorae's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: War

pezfilledcookies's review against another edition

hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Death

Minor: Drug abuse and Toxic relationship

jdromsky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

I agree with the praise on the front cover of my copy that this book “is essential reading for this moment in American history.” Hillbilly Elegy was incredibly informative but lovingly so: author JD Vance just wants to tell his story and explain how his life has led him to draw certain conclusions about the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Death, and Toxic relationship

lngoldstein's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Mental illness

sophiejohn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

elyssajoh's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

charlotte03's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

3.0

His view on the influence of race in society is very one dimensional, and seems to miss the point that  being white was one of the few privileges he had growing up and not that  white male privilege discards hardships. However, his experience does highlight the inaccessibility to the valued cultural and social capital in society.
This should be seen as biography and not a sociological text. However, it would good to read alongside, and in addition to, sociological and political  based books focusing on class and intersectionality. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Violence