Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

118 reviews

noahsingh's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Misogyny, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical trauma, Bullying, Stalking, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Addiction, Animal death, Medical content, Confinement, Classism, Rape, and Kidnapping

Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

3.0

An interesting book about growing up in South Africa before and after the end of Apartheid.. I could never imagine that Noah went through so much on his life; enough to break him, but he managed to step away, and that's remarkable. 
There was a lot of going back and forth in time that made it hard(er) to follow and gave a feeling of being a tad inconsistent. Not bad, just not great... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Medical content, and Misogyny

minanonim's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Classism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

dianakamau's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Animal death, and Alcoholism

filipa_maia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

I'm such a huge fan of Trevor Noah and this book was on my TBR list for so long... I was really excited about this read. I'm usually not a fan of autobiographies (biographies in general) but I could not pass this one.

I really enjoyed this book. Is so effortlessly written, almost like a conversation.  The story goes back and forth with such grace and detail that the reader feels like its actually a one-on-one talk with Trevor.

Trevor as a very unique way of describing whats around him. Its a very funny, but serious way of telling us what was like to born and live being someone who does not belong. But this book is so much more that just a story about Trevor's life. Is all about a time period that changed an entire country and its people forever. Its very interesting the way this book describes such dark times through the eyes of a child and, later, with the proper interpretation of an adult. More than 30 years after the end of apartheid people still live surrounded by its "ghost"... its not there anymore but its presence is still felt.

Everyone, no matter what your race is, your age, where you are from, should read this book. We all should learn what happened during (and after) apartheid, because when we forget the past we are bound to repeat the same mistakes.

P.S.: I believe there is a quote very similar to this by a philosopher, but this is a saying that I really like.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Police brutality, Grief, Child abuse, Racism, Physical abuse, Sexism, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Hate crime, Gun violence, Classism, Violence, Genocide, Domestic abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Excrement, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

madisonfrank's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Classism, Physical abuse, Racism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Cursing, Gun violence, and Bullying

allapaz's review against another edition

3.5

I realize I'm in the minority on this, but this one didn't blow me away as far as memoirs go. It is an EXCELLENT discussion and depiction of real life in South Africa post-apartheid, and the parts that got real were really really good. What lost me in parts was Trevor Noah's humor in some places, and the jumping around in the timeline. I found it hard to keep track of what happened when when we'd get entirely new information/context like 3 chapters later. That last chapter about his mom though was 5000/5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

enbeefinery's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

“The fact that I grew up in a world run by women was no accident. Apartheid kept me away from my father because he was white, but for almost all the kids I knew on my grandmother’s block in Soweto, apartheid had taken away their fathers as well, just for different reasons. Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays. Their fathers had been sent to prison. Their fathers were in exile, fighting for the cause. Women held the community together.”

one of the most quotable books i’ve ever read. witty (yes, can’t believe i’m calling a book -mostly- about apartheid witty), challenging, and eye-opening. i love it when books point out  my ignorance and teach me things i’d never before thought about learning. the only reason i’m not giving this book 5 stars is the couple of paragraphs about women and pornography during the author’s teenage years, guess i’d been away from works written by cis men for too long. a must-read.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Animal cruelty

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape and Suicide

jacob_dion's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Police brutality, Colonisation, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Murder, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Racism, Animal cruelty, Cursing, and Slavery