Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

22 reviews

jazmac's review

Focus on child abuse. I felt the author used a little of words but didn’t really say much. There was not a lot of structure in the work. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

bookish_manda's review

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.0

Matthew McConaughey’s memoir, Greenlights was a weird book. One of my favorite genres to read are memoires. Especially memoires read by the author. Although McConaughey narrated this audiobook, I was immediately uncomfortable with McConaughey’s forced and over dramatic narration. I also found McConaughey to be too crude at times. In addition to all of this, he shared some childhood trauma and abuse, but refused to recognize and label it as abuse. In fact, at the end of the memoir, McConaughey glorifies the abusive behavior, and even thanked his parents. He outright doesn’t denies that it was abuse. 

This book just wasn’t for me. I can see why other people would like it, but I really struggled with getting through this one. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

melist6's review

funny reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

reads2cope's review against another edition

1.0

Wow I regret reading this. Read as an audiobook on a roadtrip at the request of the driver, but still. By the end, both of us agreed that if he'd dedicated the book to Jordan Peterson at the beginning rather than thanking him in the acknowledgements at the end, we could have saved our ears from a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

challenging funny medium-paced

2.0

It was entertaining and made me laugh a lot, except not because of the book but at it. The disconnect between what he's advising and the stories he tells is so big that it has to be a joke. He's a good actor so I won't dispute that but the whole thing is a libertarian manifesto told by someone who I would very much never like to meet in person. The writing is decent but mostly mumbo jumbo I didn't care for.
Also RIP to earphone users because this man will do whatever to that mic to get a dramatic effect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Racism, Misogyny, and Confinement

anna_maria_wirth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Cursing

smsegal's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol and Child abuse

nick13's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

5.0

 Mathew McConaughey might not star in some of my favorite movies, but he does what he wants when he wants to do it and that is why he is one of my favorite actors. Along with this, a lot of my family is from Longview, Texas and even attended Longview High School with him so I knew much of the high school bits from this book, which actually made them somehow more entertaining. Anyways, tangent about my weird correlation with McConaughey over, this book was simply amazing. I loved a lot of the advice and the way he gave it in the audiobook (you simply have to listen to the audiobook of this it's incredible) and even though I follow the advice already, the stories that came with it were so good that it didn't matter. And just because I follow a lot of the advice in this book, I don't follow all of it, and while listening to this book I could feel my own self puzzling out my own advice along with it, discovering parts of my own self that I never really thought about before. Okay, I guess I just went on another tangent huh? 

All in all, even if this book doesn't give you more philosophy on your own life or lets you discover the secrets of the universe, I guarantee the stories that are packed alongside it are really entertaining especially when getting to hear Mathew tell them in his own voice. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Death of parent

mandaraffe's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming and Cultural appropriation

nikki8d's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Child abuse