Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Nascido do crime by Trevor Noah

44 reviews

kenziewol's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

breadwitchery's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Animal death, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Death, Violence, Misogyny, Excrement, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood, Slavery, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Cursing, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Genocide, Antisemitism, and Rape

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

dark emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Sexism, Slavery, and Colonisation

purplelake's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Wow. Just wow. Born a Crime might be the best book I’ve read in the last couple years.
While novel centers around Noah’s childhood in South Africa, he and his mother are a binary star system, revolving around each other. The amount of respect Noah has for his mother, for all her strengths and weaknesses, charms and faults, is apparent in every word. And Noah’s mother is truly an incredible woman, providing wisdom and opportunity even during apartheid.
The story unfolds through witty vignettes, weaving the timeline back and forth, both non-sequential and somehow the way Noah’s tale is best told. Noah’s candid and irreverent voice is what truly puts this book over the top, guiding his audience through the race struggle of post-apartheid South Africa with grace and humor.
It comes as no surprise that Born a Crime is a comedic masterpiece, but it is the heart of the novel that makes it worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Cursing, Excrement, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, and Suicide

remy_licked_my_book's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This is hands down the best book I've read this year. This book should be read by everyone. I loved that it was a mix of personal stories of growing up in apartheid south Africa as well as the history of apartheid. This is truly an homage to Trevor's incredibly resilient mother who raises him as a single mom for a lot of his life. Trevor presents the facts without it feeling too traumatic. What I mean is that he manages to tell these stories in a way that make it so anyone can read it without becoming too triggered by anything.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Toxic relationship

ofpagesandparagraphs's review against another edition

inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

In this memoir Trevor Noah dives right in to his childhood growing up in South Africa.  Boy does he have some stories to tell.  He has you cracking up at his antics and one-liners one minute and gasping the next.  I found this book both page-turning and eye-opening.  He also has a modified version of this book for middlegrade to YA kids (necessary due to language and content) that I am also interested in picking up to compare. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

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

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

jessicayoungdesigner's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

The fact that Trevor Noah can come from such a rough past and have faced so many challenges and heartbreak and still be such an optimistic, funny person is a huge testament to his own character and his mother's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Domestic abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Cursing, and Animal cruelty

emakay's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Excrement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Slavery