Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 by Moshe Kasher

13 reviews

versa's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, and Body shaming

literary_laur's review

dark funny inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual content

avidbookreader7's review

fast-paced

Very disappointing! Retelling your childhood CAN be done without racial slurs, homophobic connotations, glorified substance abuse, etc.
Read through to the end to give it a chance to turn around but that never happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Drug abuse

aleyajo's review

challenging dark inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.25

Funny, he was an absolute handful of a child. Would rather he didn’t use the r slur. Funny, wish he’d gone over his recovery more it felt like he kinda just jumped into being better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Addiction, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Cancer, and Drug use

kellyhar's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Ableism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs

kris10bova's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Rape, and Religious bigotry

hail_archangel's review

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Violence, Bullying, and Cursing

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Child abuse

caittothelin's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, Alcoholism, and Addiction

ninahuynh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.25

Wow. What a trip. This book is definitely not for the weak mind. The story is raw and the topics it touches on are not for the light of heart. If you are uncomfortable with the r-word and the n-word, I suggest you skip this book. You read the title, so I shouldn't need to warn you about the drug use and abuse, but I gotta say, the scream for help from the children were frighteningly loud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Blood, Confinement, Alcohol, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Religious bigotry

mattyvreads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

Well written and well paced, this is an almost immersive, impressively honest, and thoughtfully structured account of a troubled child’s life. Unfortunately, it is a real account.

Kasher balances his wit with the sometimes tragic and often harrowing circumstances of his upbringing. It is thought-provoking and deeply moving memoir.

The author is raw and ernest in his discussion of drug and alcohol addiction. It is an impressive thing to be able to speak so candidly about such a personal and traumatic time. It demonstrates a level of vulnerability unparalleled by most autobiographers.

It is an impressive piece of literature.

(As a slight critique and side note: There are quite a few instances when the author uses some dated and offensive language. There is certainly a contextual element, as he is recounting what he heard and said in his youth at school, etc.. Still it gave me slight pause as a modern reader. He may have been able to allude to the use of the words without writing them out so many damn times… But I digress.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Ableism, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Car accident, Homophobia, Rape, and Cultural appropriation