Reviews tagging 'Rape'

None of This Rocks by Joe Trohman

4 reviews

lotsaplots's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-paced

4.5

I loved the insight into Joe's life and way of thinking despite the heartbreaking stories he has to tell about his childhood and his place in Fall Out Boy. I thought the book was great and read it very quickly. My only complaints are that there is occasionally information repeated chapter to chapter as if this is a series of blog posts where someone is only starting to read in chapter 5 and 2 unnecessary rape jokes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Drug use, Drug abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Dysphoria

Minor: Animal death and Rape

pinkmalady's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Addiction, Drug use, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Excrement, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Abandonment, Violence, and Body shaming

Minor: Classism, Sexism, Vomit, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Car accident, Genocide, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Racism, and Rape

artytytyty's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

JOE TROHMAN, I AM SHOWERING YOU IN SO MUCH LOVE, YOU ARE SO LOVED!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Rape

kingcrookback's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

I made a playlist of the individual songs mentioned by name in the book, if anyone's interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EfjS2lgJOWe9XsExa8wQm?si=a8d282ca2e2347c1

Joe's got a very distinct voice that's very consistent throughout the entire book--a deliberate derailing of seriousness. Readers will quickly learn the reasons why that is. But he steers us between painful and humorous within the same page, if not the same paragraph, in a way that (usually) doesn't feel unfocused. It's not a flaw, more a feature of how his sense of humor works. All in all, this is a very engaging, illuminating, and at times heartwarming (man loves his family and friends) memoir from an artist that often gets shafted as "that other, other guy from Fall Out Boy."

Be warned: lotta piss and dick talk. Like...last time I thought "God, enough about your dick!" this many times, I was reading The Sun Also Rises. Way less racist and antisemitic, though. Also, he maybe should've censored that one racist slur, though I understand that he included it to illustrate the hostility of the neighborhood he was describing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Antisemitism, and Child abuse

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Rape