Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Nascido do crime by Trevor Noah

37 reviews

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

emcatbee's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, and Racism

alayamorning's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Rape, Police brutality, and Slavery

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

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

kathrynhannah's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Rape and Antisemitism

empathephant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book was different than I expected it to be (in a great way). I thought it would be more of a linear story that focused a lot on how he got to be a comedian/TV personality, but after reading I still have no clue about his early career. What it did talk about was his childhood. I knew it would discuss the effects of Apartheid, but each chapter was organized somewhat topically, string together personal stories examples and jumping in time to illustrate concepts of what South African life was like more than "his life story." I learned so much that I hadn't known previously about South Africa as an American. I highly recommend the audiobook. It is narrated by Trevor himself and he tells his story emotionally and powerfully, speaking many languages and even singing at one point. He made me laugh and feel sorrow and fear in the same book, making it easier to approach the heavy topics found within.

I think what another review said is a perfect description: "I...admired how he [told] his story as it is. He had every chance to glorify the life he lived in South Africa and he did not. To me, it was more like he wrote the book to shed light on the circumstances that kids like him grew up in rather than talk about his own life."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Police brutality, Rape, and Slavery

The last chapter contains the most graphic descriptions of violence.

adoras's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Excrement, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Antisemitism, Drug use, and Rape