Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

58 reviews

smithreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexism, and Antisemitism

Minor: Bullying

ekmook's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Excrement

remy_licked_my_book's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This is hands down the best book I've read this year. This book should be read by everyone. I loved that it was a mix of personal stories of growing up in apartheid south Africa as well as the history of apartheid. This is truly an homage to Trevor's incredibly resilient mother who raises him as a single mom for a lot of his life. Trevor presents the facts without it feeling too traumatic. What I mean is that he manages to tell these stories in a way that make it so anyone can read it without becoming too triggered by anything.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Police brutality

emberlesage's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

dorakathryn's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Police brutality

chapterchristine's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

befreckledbookworm's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow.
Just wow.
This book was absolutely amazing.
I’m not a huge nonfiction reader, but I love Trevor’s comedy specials and I’d heard good things about his book, so I picked it up from my school library. 
He’s a mama’s boy, but not in the way where he’s thirty-something and living in his mom’s basement. Their relationship is like Lorelai and Rory from Gilmore Girls, kind of. They fight and yell at each other, but in the end, they love each other and can always make each other laugh. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, and Medical content

grei's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

So, so worth anyone's time if you can read it. Even if you don't get the audiobook you can hear him telling the story in your head.

I don't know a better way to describe this book, it is absolutely an amazing read that defies categorization, other than to say it is the story of Trevor Noah growing up as the son of a black mother and white father during apartheid, when it was illegal to have such a child.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

If you want to skip the part about excrement, once Trevor starts talking about needing to go to the bathroom just skip to the end of the chapter. The last few paragraphs provide enough context and a good punchline for you to skip all the graphic detail and embarrassment of it.