Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Die geheime Geschichte, by Donna Tartt

674 reviews

avciera7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Xenophobia, Incest, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

hippejulia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Drug use, Murder, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

Minor: Mental illness, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Gun violence, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Eating disorder

micarus's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Murder, Alcoholism, and Drug use

rosaleekarisma's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Antisemitism, Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Addiction, Incest, Medical content, Violence, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Self harm, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, and Death of parent

intrusive thoughts

hefftbundle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It wasn't at all what I expected, and probably not something I'd revisit. Well-written, to be sure.


It is an excruciatingly slow book, but hard to put down. You want to know how it will end, even when you can guess at some parts. If you can hang on until the second half, it picks up in interest, but it still moves just as slow. Until about the last 50 pages, when it picks you up, spins you around, slaps you for good measure, and then gently sits you down and bids you a pleasant evening. 

It has all the academic atmosphere and intrigue of Dead Poet's Society, and all the self-absorption and drudgery of Catcher in the Rye. If you like Salinger, you'll probably like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Violence, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Classism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Rape

vagrantheather's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Love love love love everything about this novel. The people are people in a way most authors just can't nail. Each character feels fleshed out and real, flickering between genuine warmth and cold, snide, abrasive attitudes; they have real feeling motivations, unacknowledged biases. Not only is the narrator unreliable, but each of the people he speaks to is similarly conveying a version of events filtered through that character's lens. The prose is beautiful in a subtle manner. The setting, the whole vibe of late 80s college life, is executed flawlessly. I will buy this book and read it a half dozen more times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Murder, Alcohol, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Classism, Incest, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

naoise97's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, Addiction, Incest, Alcoholism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Classism, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

haleymk's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt, Racial slurs, Rape, and Racism

konstantina's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Reading language: Greek 

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

I don't know what to say about this bizzare, yet beautiful book. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it. It's one of those books that leave you looking at the wall with a blank stare. Reading it in Greek certainly made the experience more poetic.

I don't think it deserves 5 stars but it was such a unique one for me, that I would feel weird giving it anything else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Alcohol, Death, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, and Incest

Minor: Islamophobia, Car accident, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, and Classism

ilvtaylorswift's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Violence, Incest, Murder, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Death, Classism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt