Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

48 reviews

woweewhoa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Stalking, Rape, Excrement, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death, and Dysphoria

Minor: War

veelaughtland's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Excrement, Hate crime, Infidelity, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Self harm

larzhagen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

Let me preface my review by saying that I am so incredibly happy for Elliot Page for finding joy in his authentic self.

As a long-time fan of Page, I was eager to read PageBoy (I pre-ordered a signed copy). We need more transmasculine stories! That's why it hurts to share that I didn't enjoy PageBoy very much.

Reason 1: Rather than following a linear narrative, Page recounts moments in his life seemingly at random. So, then, his timeline is incredibly challenging to piece together. It's difficult to keep track of his relationships, living situations, etc.

Reason 2: PageBoy is heavily solemn with no breaks (aside from maybe ch.Buckets). It reads like a catalog of Page's hardships, sometimes diving into graphic depictions of assault/violent situations. Page loves to write about shit and blood.

Reason 3: PageBoy centered predominantly around Page's romantic relationships and sexual experiences. I may be off base, but it seems Page is still attempting to unhealthily gauge/validate his masculinity by retelling these situations. 

Now the positive: I'd say PageBoy succeeds as an art piece. Elliot includes many excerpts from speeches, books, songs, movies throughout his nonlinear structure.  PageBoy is a wonderful collage-esque expression of self-healing and reflection.

Ultimately, PageBoy is a testament of trans courage. While it didn't align with my expectations, I still feel incredibly fortunate to have a signed copy, and I did resonate with it quite a bit. In the end though, I will be reserved when recommending it to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Blood, Stalking, Hate crime, Excrement, and Eating disorder

braveprincess11's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Blood, Eating disorder, Torture, Stalking, Body horror, Sexual assault, Cursing, Child abuse, Medical content, Excrement, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

Minor: Self harm, Murder, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

green_squids's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Bullying, Blood, Deadnaming, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Cursing, Dysphoria, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Hate crime, Outing, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death of parent

scarylavender's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

1.5

disclaimer I AM TRANS !! bro needed an editor this was just half-baked thoughts from therapy 👍 I wish it was a collection of personal essays 👍 highly anticipated it but I think I'm done with celebrity memoirs and definitely done with going in blind 👍 kept committing time hoping it would get better but then it just abruptly ended. there's a goodreads review by someone named Nin who summarized most of my thoughts 👍 gonna spend money on zines from trans posts in my community instead now but I hope elliot is having a good day and that he does more stuff like Gaycation 👍 my friend read Argonauts that he talks about loving and being inspired by in this and she hated it and we got to mutually bitch about how oh my god yeah this has that same problem 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Excrement and Hate crime

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual content, Car accident, Pedophilia, Blood, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

Minor: Excrement, Transphobia, Bullying, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug use, and Religious bigotry

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

4.75

It feels weird to rate someone's memoir but I want to give it many stars to counterbalance the deductions by other reviewers based on the book's structure.

The non-linear narrative was a clever and interesting choice. If it feels fragmented, that's exactly the point. It is also refreshingly different from the more typical year-by-year account. This is not a typical autobiography after all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Bullying, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Stalking, Rape, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug use, Outing, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, and Excrement

Minor: Cursing and Deadnaming

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Violence, Vomit, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Excrement, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Child abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Bullying, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident, Lesbophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Classism, Torture, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

smalljoys's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

As other reviewers have shared, the time jumps in the book were a bit hard to digest. (for example; going from a story of elliot at age 6 and then jumping to age 19 and back to age 6 and then to age 28) I had trouble keeping up with the time jumps. Altogether though, thank you Elliot Page for sharing yourself with us. I appreciate you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Medical content, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Transphobia, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Drug use, Excrement, Homophobia, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail