Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodríguez

3 reviews

lainey_sherman3's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Drug use, Gore, Addiction, Blood, Classism, Deportation, Police brutality, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Murder, and Suicide

hawk_just_hawk's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

An excellent first-person account of how oppressive systems and structures create poverty and crime. Sociologically: Chef’s kiss!

Toxic masculinity and ableism are deeply entrenched in this lifestyle, so approach with caution. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Addiction, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Suicide, Vomit, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Bullying, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Murder, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Violence, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Death

joyblue's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

1.5

I took special note of a single sentence in the Prologue and pretty much the entire Epilogue. Everything in between, I could have done without—they are graphic. [We could have greater discussion on the point of this, but not right now.] 

The parts I mention expose inequity and lack of social justice. The rest was a brutal account of the author's life, which is, after all, what one expects in a memoir. I'm not into memoirs, typically, and it wasn't why I was interested in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual content