Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

L'attrape-coeurs by Jerome David Salinger by J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger

32 reviews

hollacalla's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The traumatized teen’s bible. 

I feel like it’s hard to dislike Holden if you either were a kid like him or have known kids like him. He’s deeply empathetic, deeply intelligent, deeply good with people, deeply frustrating, and deeply frustrated all in one. He is an extremely realistic portrayal of a kid who has been failed by his society, but he loves the society all the same. I can understand how this could make people uncomfortable or put off, but your tenth grade english teacher wasn’t just trying to torture you, I promise 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization

lexgrace's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Although Holden’s personality can be quite challenging to get ahold of, his story is filled with unique perspectives and emotional insights that leave you  compassionate to him and empathetic towards his struggle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Sexual harassment

This is NOT a good book to read by someone who is sensitive to profanity or self deprecating talk. Anyone with severe mental illness, disorder, emotional sensitivity, and suicidal tendencies should take extreme caution when or avoid reading this book.

kayleajayne's review against another edition

1.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I hated this book with every fiber of my being. I get that this book is about rebellion, especially in a time when rebellion was strongly looked down on, but the character is very annoying to me. Granted, there are some aspects of grief and avoidance of that grief that make you feel a little sorry for him, but his long snotty digressions on the phonies of the world is a real turn off. He’s a kid. A bratty kid who has something sad happen to him, but even still, he is not likable in his brattiness. The writing isn’t horrible and I get the symbolism of the catcher in the rye part, but I hated listening to the character and his voice. He was grating. And it was NOT enjoyable for me, classic book or not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Child death

Minor: Cancer, Forced institutionalization

might_be_may's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Bullying, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual harassment

princxporkchop's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Incredibly impressed by the skill it takes to create a first person POV with such a strong and consistent voice throughout an entire novel. I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed this teenager’s melancholic ramblings, but sometimes the classics are classics for a reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content

haleighotter's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Still a great read. Had me cracking up throughout and I even cried a little! 

10 years later and I’m still in love with book and catch something new each time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol

pony_boy's review against another edition

2.5

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Gore, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Sexual harassment

greenan26's review against another edition

2.5

reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Sexual harassment

carrierolling's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Mental illness, Grief

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit

iillianne's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Although I’ve read this book a couple times, it feels like i finally grasped it this time around. Like holden, i was so caught up with my own issues against the world that anything i tried to put my focus on, like reading this book, became hazy. Ugh holden, they could never make me hate u. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault