Reviews tagging 'Death'

Just Kids by Patti Smith

72 reviews

michaelion's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative medium-paced

3.5

The title is so perfect. They were just kids! Living life! Going wherever the wind took them! Having fun! Living laughing loving! It's heart breaking and so sweet at the same time!

I don't know these people so I don't know why it was in my TBR for so long, but if I was a stan I probably would've given it a higher rating. And many of the photos were very lovely. They met by accident and it was a once in a lifetime love story! And they were just kids!!! Rolls credits!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Drug use and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Outing, Cultural appropriation, and Dysphoria

page_28's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A gift

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

anoukrobbeets's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use

addicook's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

I enjoyed reading it and it was easy to get through for the most part but it just didn't really spark a ton of emotion or reflection for me personally

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Chronic illness and Death

c410berry's review against another edition

reflective

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness

v2001's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Homophobia

thmei's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

for the addiction & drug use tags: she & especially robert use drugs casually, mostly hallucinogens and later weed, and if i remember correctly they befriend some alcoholics but nothing particularly distressing or graphic is described, it’s just frequently mentioned. they have some bad trips but mostly lots of fun and creativity. for the pregnancy tag:

patti is briefly pregnant at 19 towards the beginning of the book and describes being treated badly during labor and the bittersweet sadness of giving up a child. she is also pregnant again as a married adult during the last chapter.

nothing is graphic at all. for the grief and death tags: robert’s death

from aids, as well as the death of his partner sam wagstaff,

is the primary focus of the last two chapters. you know from the prologue that he will die. these chapters are quite short and i personally didn’t find them overwhelming, but they are sad and the hopefulness at the beginning of this ordeal is very sad to the reader, who knows what will inevitably happen. it’s also quite easy to predict what will occur given the events of the book and any knowledge of the era, even with no knowledge of patti smith’s life. it is still extremely upsetting.

joensign's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide and Pregnancy

paulinelluise's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

risemini's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use