Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

5 reviews

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

marigoldgem's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Infidelity

rayannotates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i don’t think i’ve ever read a book that i’ve so closely related to in regards to my sentiments towards my father.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Suicide, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Cursing

Minor: Child death and Toxic relationship

aliciarosales's review against another edition

emotional relaxing fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pedophilia

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Child death

will_meringue's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Child death