Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

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

20 reviews

smashlier's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

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

rustmaiden's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

hollandmoriarty's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

thebookwormkatie's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Violence

asterius's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

Please read actual literature on the history of Appalachia if you want to understand the region, and not the warblings of a silicon valley millionaire upset with poor people for not having enough initiative.

While you're getting other books, read Hillbilly Reckoning, for thorough responses to this book by actual advocates and historians. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Ableism

judereadsalot's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

noshelf_control's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Violence

rowandl's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

3.5

This book confronts the Appalachian opioid crisis, but it's a bit reductive. I don't believe it gives a full picture of the area. This is a memoir above all else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

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