Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

26 reviews

gretareadsbooks's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Sexual assault

hedgielib's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Child abuse, and Alcohol

erinbarton's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

emily_pns's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

dinocraniac's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Book with a topic made for me! Separating the art from the artist has always been such a struggle for me. Dederer's book was so captivating and most of the time I didn't want to stop reading. However, there were parts that were incredibly uncomfy to read. Such a jarring and horrifying opening to the book. Like actually an insane way to open a book. And the whole chapter about Lolita. Ending was a bit weak as well, at least the second to last chapter. Throughout the book it annoyed me how she kept saying "we", only to be like "not we, I". She would correct herself and then keep doing it like please get your shit together. But anyway. Overall a really good book, highly reccomend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

erika_winters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This was a really insightful book of essays containing cultural critiques while combining Dederer’s personal experiences and views. A major question she tackles throughout the essays (which delve into Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Pablo Picasso, Doris Lessing, Joni Mitchell, etc.) is: can we still love art created by monstrous people? This is something that Dederer personally grapples with throughout and has a bunch of mixed emotions about; but we all do, really. The only reason this didn’t get a perfect 5 star rating is because I felt like some essays were lacking in some way; I am greedy and wanted more discussion or more details about people I didn’t know about before reading the essays, such as Ana Mendieta, a feminist sculptor and painter, who died tragically from what Dederer believes to be a domestic violence situation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Discusses extremely disgusting behavior by some of the worst sexual predators in the art, film, and music worlds. Proceed with caution if you are wary of these topics.

breanne's review against another edition

I feel like I was going in circles reading about X person doing X horrible thing and the author's analysis on how people justify enjoying X person's content.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Child abuse

inlibrisveritas's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

If you're going into this looking for an answer on how to deal with the monsters in our media, you won't find one. This is very much a personal look at how the author views and deals with it, and how as a collective it's not an easy answer to form. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, Pedophilia, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction

jjp_reads's review against another edition

Too triggering

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

chelseadoherty's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Incest, Sexual assault, Addiction, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Drug abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Mass/school shootings, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, and Suicide