Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

20 reviews

dch7's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Grief, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Car accident, and Death

orasmis's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Racism, Death, Alcoholism, and Bullying

gabbyolsen's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Racism

Minor: Eating disorder, Animal death, Homophobia, and Sexual content

nina17's review

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Violence

alysonwonderland84's review

dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content and Homophobia

jonwood's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Read this for an online teaching course. 

The book is a brutally honest look at the life of a kid in a community that is victim of unfair circumstance. His family and neighbors seem trapped in an perpetual self-destructive cycle of alcohol and gambling. It's a depressing reality that many children find them selves stuck in. Even when the protagonist gets to go to a better school, it's revealed a lot of the well to do people have their own problems, which just you shouldn't judge anyone without knowing their story. Deaths and acts of violence are sudden and reflect the pointlessness of it in real life.

In all, I think is a rather reflection and frank discussion on the harsh reality many kids face and a good way for those unaware to that life to become more aware. I suppose the reason I didn't love the book is that the author seems to do a good job capturing the juvenile/bathroom/homophobic humor that reminds too much of the boys would attempt to avoid as an adolescent, and I don't want to spend too much time around people who talk like that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Medical content, and Racial slurs

Minor: Gun violence, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexism, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, and Car accident

inked_in_pages's review

funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Colonisation, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Death

knunderb's review

challenging funny inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a compelling novel. I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Gun violence and Vomit

Minor: Sexual content

storyphile's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Death

bryelle's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A teenager boy’s thoughts as he moves through life and major life changes. He tells the story of being a disabled Indigenous boy on the Spokane, WA reservation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Death, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content