Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

79 reviews

yavin_iv's review against another edition

Got about 2/3 through. Mostly a fine introduction to life in South Africa during/right after apartheid but there's a story around that 2/3 mark where like--(cw antisemitism)

after Trevor explains that Black people in South Africa mostly understood Hitler as one of history's many strongmen, which led to people picking "Hitler" as their sons' European name, he tells a story about how he DJ'd at a Jewish school with his dance hype friend of that name he and the 90s/00s dance chant of "go [name]! go [name]!" for said friend, and a MASSIVE misunderstanding ensued. Trevor and his friend thought the Jewish people were upset about sexualized dances and were being racist, and like doubled down on the chant before cursing them out and leaving. The white Jewish people did go into "you people" territory in confronting them, but it was a bad situation all around between two marginalized groups of people who didn't understand each other or how they were each inflicting hurt. Most of the stories Trevor tells in this book are done so in a humorous light, but this one is just--it's more sad than anything!

I found the attempted humorous framing of this story to be super distasteful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Excrement, and Animal death

Moderate: Antisemitism, Violence, Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Alcoholism

befreckledbookworm's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow.
Just wow.
This book was absolutely amazing.
I’m not a huge nonfiction reader, but I love Trevor’s comedy specials and I’d heard good things about his book, so I picked it up from my school library. 
He’s a mama’s boy, but not in the way where he’s thirty-something and living in his mom’s basement. Their relationship is like Lorelai and Rory from Gilmore Girls, kind of. They fight and yell at each other, but in the end, they love each other and can always make each other laugh. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Racism

whattaylorreads's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

adoras's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Excrement, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Antisemitism, Drug use, and Rape

alenert's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective

4.5

Highly highly recommend on audio. I had the physical copy of this, but had heard such great things about the narration—particularly how Noah seamlessly flips between accents and dialects throughout the story—that I decided to listen instead, and I think it really adds to the experience. In addition to this being both moving and funny, I knew next to nothing about South African history and apartheid and feel like I really learned from it as well. 

Update to say the one piece of this book that didn’t sit well with me was the discussion of the Holocaust.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Alcoholism and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Excrement, Gun violence, and Misogyny

zelda_pinwheel's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

 Très personnel mais donne également une vue d'ensemble socio-culturel et historique de l'Afrique du Sud / l'apartheid. Touchant et fascinant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, and Animal death

jennhammel's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Slavery, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

shannonxvx's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Excrement, Animal death, and Antisemitism

lauraeerika's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty

Minor: Animal death and Suicidal thoughts