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Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
105 reviews
ophalen's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Cancer
lisettemarie's review
4.5
Graphic: Addiction
Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
tieflingmom's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Cancer, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Addiction, Homophobia, Death, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Biphobia, Dementia, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Self harm
sblisberg's review
Member dies
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, and Alcoholism
_alicereadsbooks's review against another edition
4.0
The challenges and hurdles and experiences that they have faced throughout their life were sometimes hard to read. I am always amazed by the way people can come through trauma like that and be such a joyous and loving person, both to themselves and others.
I do wish I had listened to this as an audiobook as I think I would have enjoyed it even more.
Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction
Moderate: Rape, Homophobia, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Sexual content
jessicaharleee's review
3.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Homophobia
maldonadobryan's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Self harm, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
pacifickat's review against another edition
4.0
The audiobook absolutely made this book work for me as a reader. There were so many jokes and moments that relied on anticipating the correct voice intonation in order to completely land, and it was fun hearing JVN's humor come through in the audio narration. Plus, I would have hopelessly butchered all the Russian pseudonyms in my head.
Lots of trigger warnings could be applied to this book (childhood trauma, sexual content, drug use, self harm, bullying, etc.), but I have rarely heard more accurate or compelling descriptions of addictive behaviors and the self-destructive-yet-all-consuming mental state behind them than here. This felt like an extremely honest and open account of the author's most formative life experiences, and I can't help but admire that.
I also really appreciated learning a bit about AIDS/HIV stigma, treatments, and current positive prognoses when caught early and managed carefully. This kind of information is truly a public service to get out there in the open.
Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Bullying, Chronic illness, Self harm, Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Cancer, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Dementia, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Death, Sexual assault, and Alcohol
Minor: Eating disorder and Fatphobia
amoremeg's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Grief
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Addiction, and Chronic illness
Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Gun violence
skstert's review
3.25
Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Sexual assault