Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

45 reviews

a_thousand_books_unread's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Let's start by me admitting that I hadn't read anything written by Ditlevsen again, and I didn't know what to expect when I started this book. In it, I eventually found an engaging prose that wouldn't allow me to stop reading even though the narrative itself brought me to tears more than once. 

Tove Ditlevsen narrates her personal life; from a daughter in a low-income household in 1930's, to a well-known voice of Denmark's literary world and everything in between. 

The book is split into three parts: the first one covers her childhood, the second one her teenage and early adulthood years, and her third one her turbulent years as a writer and a wife in four very different marriages. Especially the last part is both fascinating and very heart wrenching at parts. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Drug abuse

dylan2219's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.75

It begins as a wonderfully confessional reflection on a life, and then begins the most dramatic descent into hell imaginable by the end. Writing this must have been actual torture, especially as it seems like Ditlevsen never really kicked the habit of her addictions. the novel questions if one ever can do so. What interested me is how inarticulate she often is about her decision-making; she is reflective, and detailed, but not insightful, and the book is propelled by this constant feeling of the present even though we know we are sitting through memories. It creates a strange, ghostly atmosphere, yet also establishes the fundamental incomprehensibility of where her story goes. Because it is incomprehensible, who could ever explain such a thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

kstolecki's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Self harm, and Mental illness

jcpanache's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse

irelivar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse

solasuaine's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Abortion, Drug abuse, and Drug use

spbg's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Addiction

amaya_jam's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

my heart aches for tove. i cheered for her and reprimanded her at every turn. this memoir is on par with the bell jar in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual content

sarahrose_a's review

emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, and Addiction

kaimo007's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

4.0

To be honest I felt like the childhood and youth books were a bit dry. Dependency was a lot better. Written like an inner monologue, with some beautiful sentences, but hard to like the characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Minor: Child abuse