163 reviews for:

Cruddy - Ein Leben wie Dreck: Psychodrama

Lynda Barry

4.06 AVERAGE

akilfoyle's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

orlagal's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder

currerbelle's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

threadybeeps's review against another edition

5.0

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This book is filled with unspeakable horrors and I actually wish I'd never read it. But it was also brilliant and I must give credit where credit is due. Cheers.

kingweirdo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Forced institutionalization

hungrybookclub's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

quietrach's review against another edition

5.0

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After being grounded for dropping acid, Roberta begins to write her short, yet remarkable life story. The story is one of theft, murder, mayhem, and lots of blood. The book cycles between the present where Roberta is a fairly average teenager, although with a difficult home life exacerbated drugs given to her by some less than great friends, and a time past when Roberta drove through the country with "The Father" on a bloody quest to recover his family fortune.

Robert is one of my favorite unreliable narrators. I'm still not sure, even after a second reading if she's really telling the truth.

briegle's review against another edition

4.0

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I don't usually read dark books like this. Maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much - it was so unusual and unique that I was instantly drawn in.

curleyreads's review against another edition

5.0

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I loved this book. Lynda Barry has incredible talent -- and by that I mean that in the course of reading this book you completely forget someone named Lynda Barry wrote these words, or that this is a novel at all: I was seriously lost in the story that Roberta Rohbeson, our narrator, was telling me. Every bit of it seemed "real," visceral, authentic, even as the events grew increasingly horrifying and ultraviolent. I'm sure you could read this book as a metaphor about gender, violence, fathers, patriarchy, and perhaps that's why it felt so believable no matter what unfolded. But its real power lies in how honest each detail felt -- vulnerable and un-self-pitying. This narrator will stay with me for a long time.

gldteacher's review against another edition

5.0

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this is an all-time classic. everyone should read it.