Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

7 reviews

melissahawco's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Violence, and Incest

Moderate: Murder, Cancer, and Suicide attempt

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, and Torture

Minor: Cancer, War, Abortion, Chronic illness, Dementia, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Terminal illness

kat_e81's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Murder, Grief, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cancer

ka_ke's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Good read if you’re interested in the impacts of schizophrenia. It’s slow moving but each detail proves important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Infidelity, Self harm, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

slantrhymes's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I couldn't put this book down. It's sad and fascinating. Kolker  tackles extremely fraught subjects clinically and delicately, always giving the utmost respect to the people he's writing about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Cancer, Car accident, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

The author discusses all of the very, very difficult subjects as clinically and respectfully as possible--there is nothing sordid here--but he is honest about things that happened to and between the family members he interviewed for the book. Some of those things are stomach-turning.

sebrittainclark's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Cancer

Minor: Abortion

palekayle's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

4.0

Rough read.

Am left angry, questioning, and more

Deals with mental health (including its dark history), family dynamics, and lots of trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, and Infidelity