Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

10 reviews

blackberryjambaby's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Suicide, Car accident, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Gore

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

I don’t know how to rate this book, so I simply will not. Did I enjoy reading it? No, not particularly. It is awkward, painful, and unnecessarily sesquipedalian. Is it also incredible? Undoubtedly, yes. 

The amount of TIME that must’ve gone into writing - or more specifically DRAWING - all of this is mind blowing. With a cursory glance, one might look at Bechdel’s artistic style and think it unoriginal - similar to so many other comics we’ve seen before. But I beg you to look longer. Look at the detail; not in EVERY panel, but so many of them. Look at all of the WORDS. There are so many words - beyond the captions and the speech/thought ballons, so often the art of the panels themselves are just words - snippets from letters, journals, books, newspapers, court records, or the dictionary… and it’s all hand drawn?! I can’t begin to imagine how much time this would take… 

Fun Home is not fun. I cannot say I enjoyed reading it, but I also absolutely cannot deny that it’s a masterpiece. I have no idea how they could’ve turned this into a musical… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Medical content, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

cc24680's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Car accident

maggiegirouard's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Medical content, Infidelity, Violence, Mental illness, and Cursing

abbyj_04's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

it was a little hard to understand at times, but overall i enjoyed it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Outing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pedophilia and Adult/minor relationship

mollmccaff's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Outing, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Mental illness

saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

 

Written by the creator of the often misunderstood Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home is a graphic memoir that explores the life of Bechdel, mainly her complicated relationship to her father. Right after she came out to her parents as a lesbian, she learned her father was queer and then he died.

I had to read this for a college class and was glad I got to study something so gay. It was a sad memoir that I’d recommend to people looking for literature that specifically explores queerness, less-than-ideal-familial relationships, and mental health, all in depth. I found the relationship between Bechdel and her father to be fascinating as he wasn’t a good person, but he struggled with a lot of stuff similar to Alison with mental health and homophobia so they had a unique connection. This leads to a complicated grieving process that this memoir explores. It’s also nice to know who Alison Bechdel is when participating in Bechdel Test discourse (the Bechdel Test is a sapphic test, not a feminist one).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

firstaidkit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Suicide, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia, Car accident, and Adult/minor relationship

megg's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Medical content, Infidelity, Homophobia, Grief, Gore, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Police brutality, and Pregnancy