Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

11 reviews

kelsie_reads_books's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

1.0

I was able to be on board with the book up until he described pursuing his now-wife. I was so disgusted by his smug and arrogant retelling of the way he aggressively ignored her boundaries, her “no”s,  and her requests to go home throughout their first 24 hours together that the rest of the book felt deeply gross. He literally tricks her into coming home with him, forces her to stay the night, tries to get into her room multiple times throughout the night, congratulates himself on still kissing her despite her attempts to avoid it, and brags about it all in his book. 

They’ve been married for 15+ years, so clearly it worked out for them, but his pride in how outright predatory and inappropriate his behavior was only serves to normalize some of the worst types of male entitlement.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Drug use

reads2cope's review

1.0

Wow I regret reading this. Read as an audiobook on a roadtrip at the request of the driver, but still. By the end, both of us agreed that if he'd dedicated the book to Jordan Peterson at the beginning rather than thanking him in the acknowledgements at the end, we could have saved our ears from a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

anna_maria_wirth's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Cursing

mandaraffe's review

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming and Cultural appropriation

lindsayerin's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Emotional abuse

amandas_bookshelf's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol, Police brutality, Drug use, and Pregnancy

Minor: Violence, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

evegolding's review

I want REAL from him. The intro and first few little chapters made my bs radar go off. After looking at reviews, I realized this is not what I’m looking for. It’s more tall-tale, find a happy moral kind of writing, and without acknowledgement of privilege. I quit when he didn’t dig into his “charmed” life. It’s not metaphysical luck - it’s just the way society was set up for ya, Matt! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Classism, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

marisa_n's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

1.0

This is a pile of pretentious bullshit. Seriously, save yourself the trouble. It's vain, self-indulgent, and about as deep as a kitty pool.

In this book McConaughey: 
- Tries to both downplay the domestic violence between his parents, yet also describe it in graphic detail for dramatic effect
- Downplays his previous eating disorder/ mental health crisis as a quirky phase he went through as a teenager
- Mocks disabled people multiple times. For example, imitating his (autistic?) host brother when he lived abroad
 - Lies to hospitality workers and has his brother pretended to have a disability so he could bring his pet into pet-free places
- Generally takes advantage of the kindness of others without repaying the favor. For example, he takes advantage of some well-meaning small business owner in Europe that makes them lose money, crashes their new motorbike and then doesn't repay them
- Was incredibly creepy in how he met his now-wife, manufacturing a scenario where she had to spend the night at his place
- Follows his "spiritual" journey through a series of wet dreams (which he describes in graphic detail)
- Generally acts self-righteous and condones bad behavior throughout

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

veeronald's review against another edition

Thought this was a reflective memoir (a genre I'm trying to get into), but turns out this is just fictional dialogue about violence the author witnessed as a kid (so far), that he frames as learning experiences

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

beccic's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse