Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

88 reviews

jeremie's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

Adored every second of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Alcohol, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

Minor: Homophobia

miqozerda's review

emotional informative sad fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism

bronzeageholly's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

“Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Misogyny, Police brutality, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Drug use

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual content

oliviaisgreen's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

Despite the Complete Persepolis being a graphic novel, it was really wordy which only slightly helped pace things. So much happened across the pages and it was hard to remember after reading. Despite that, the way Satrapi writes about her life and herself was very intriguing. I found Satrapi was never afraid to show when she was in the wrong or when she made bad choices. I also learned a lot from this book, both about Iran/ Iranians and just about people. My favorite part of this book was seeing how Marji interacted with various groups of people over her teens years in Vienna. The cast of people isn’t quite what I would say is diverse, but nothing seemed stale

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Police brutality

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

emerentina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Religious bigotry, War, Violence, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Torture, and Misogyny

Minor: Death

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

lilreddress's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Sexism, Death, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Homophobia, Cancer, Bullying, Murder, Self harm, Blood, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

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