Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Christiane F: Autobiography of a Girl of the Streets and Heroin Addict by Kai Hermann, Christiane F., Horst Rieck

74 reviews

ellaxo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Physical abuse, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Suicide, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Vomit, Sexual content, and Racial slurs

Minor: Rape

meheehee's review against another edition

challenging reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

dielilla's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

jackacj's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape

strawberrykay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Death, and Drug abuse

nimbos's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Maybe I was too young when I read this for the first time at the age of 12 while going through a very dark moment of my life. I remember not being able to finish it straight away, leaving the book aside for two weeks and then coming back to it. It was so graphically tragic that made my immature stomach turn, which might have been empathised by the fact that I was about the same age as the characters involved. Later, this book would mark me forever and would mold my taste for the twisted, self-flagellating side of humankind. It's an indispensable read in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Addiction, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Drug abuse

sina321's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Violence, Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Death, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Alcohol

Minor: Torture, Homophobia, Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexism, Kidnapping, Vomit, Classism, Animal death, and Body shaming

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Drug use, and Vomit

volha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

tayichan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

4.25

I watched the movie going in blind and I was captivated by Christiane's story, though the movie does not really leave the ending clear, so when I found out it was based on a memoir I got it immediately. This book really made clear the struggles of a person addicted to heroin and the way that they wanted to quit but being unable to do so for so long. Christiane was a little annoying at times but I couldn't even begin imagining feeling the way that she did with her addiction. Definitely a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Pedophilia

Minor: Vomit and Trafficking