Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

42 reviews

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Torture, and War

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Homophobia, Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Rape

megha_tron_14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Death

Minor: Suicide, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

kooky_kayla's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and War

chaoticbeing's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Really what kickstarted my fascination and love of graphic memoirs. I read it on repeat to the point that I had pages memorized.
Book #1 is much stronger than Book #2, but both are equally important in sharing the author’s life story. #2 is much slower than #1 pace-wise, and feels much less eventful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Violence, Islamophobia, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, War, Classism, Racial slurs, Alcohol, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

ms_smith's review against another edition

5.0

A legérdekesebb könyv amit idén olvastam. A Jókönyvek.hu-n volt leárazva és úgy voltam vele, hogy mivel már amúgy is egy jó ideje el szerettem volna olvasni, akkor miért is ne jött volna el most ez a pillanat. 
Formailag és szerkezetileg is különleges könyv, nem a megszokott és ez nálam nagyot dobott rajta. Az írónő stílusa nagyon nyitott, őszinte, esetenként humoros is. Sokszor a helyébe tudtam képzelni magam.
Elképesztő, hogy Európában mennyire nem tudunk semmit a Közel-Keletről, csak azt amivel a nyugati média beeteti az embereket, hogy addig se azzal törődjünk, hogy hogyan szítanak mindenfelé háborúkat, illetve hogy főleg csak a kőolaj miatt fontos nekik az a térség.
Mardzsi helyzetét sokszor át tudtam érezni, és sajnáltam is amikor az Ausztriában történt dolgokról esett szó. Az jutott eszembe, hogy én szintén hasonló identitás válsággal nézek szembe vajdaságiként még a mai napig is sajnos, mert Magyarországon mindig szerb voltam, Szerbiában meg magyar, holott egyik se szerettem volna/szeretnék lenni, hanem egyszerűen csak ember.
Nagyon jó könyv, többeknek kéne olvasni!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

0.5

So, there is a bit to tell. I really did not like this book. You might think "Ah, so you did not like it, because it was bad", but it wasn't. Marjane Satrapi does a very good job of showing how she grew up and how stuff changed her. However, it felt a bit like listening to your friend go through absolute shit, without recognizing that you also have problems that you have to deal with. Marjane Satrapi just kept going, because she wanted to tell her story and it was uncomfortable to read, specifically the Vienna part. As a separate note, this book is just in general giving the vibe of "i do not care about the way you feel, because i will never reflect on this", so we got slutshaming and fatphobia. I kind of feel like I wasted my time with this book. 

Reading notes:

Momo sucks ass.

She just accused man of a crime he didn't commit? And what she accused him of is not even comparible of her wearing lipstick? And her and her boyfriend are so happy about it? They deserve each other. 

The scene with the pills in uni. Just like, girly, if you have something on your heart, maybe don't throw it at the first person you see?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Cursing, Drug abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Hate crime, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

I do not actually remember if there were examples of addiction, alcoholism and drug abuse, but I am not planning to reread the whole book to find them. It felt like they were there, but do not trust my word. Also, ableism is there for like a chapter, but it is bad.

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Gun violence, Colonisation, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Xenophobia, and Death

illgiveyouahint's review

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Death, Misogyny, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Drug use, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Body shaming, Infidelity, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Xenophobia, and Toxic friendship

luciavmateo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Drug use, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Religious bigotry

cofstars's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, War, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Self harm, Misogyny, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Death, Cursing, Religious bigotry, and Bullying