Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake

6 reviews

emily511's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Drug abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Murder, Drug use, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Racism

librarymouse's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

This book has killed my desire to know more about cults. It was an upsetting read, but I think I'm glad to have read it. I almost put this book down and completely stopped reading it in the first quarter. When describing her early life, Dianne describes her early childhood sexual assault with a positive spin that was viscerally upsetting to read. As I got further into the book, I realized that description fits the severity of the incident when compared to Dianne's experiences in her teens. The writing feels a bit academic in the beginning, but once I got into the book, I found that the narration described Manson and the family's descent into extremist madness that was thorough, yet easily consumable. Manson's carefully created magnetism and Dianne's curious, rose-colored memories of the events of her early time with the Manson family explain just how impressionable young people were twisted so deeply.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia and Eating disorder

Minor: Forced institutionalization

librosylagrimas's review

informative medium-paced

3.0

Un libro bastante pesado e incomodo de leer por los temas que trata. Me gustó en su mayoría porque siempre he estado interesada en la Familia de Charles Manson pero la autora se contradecía bastante y a momentos escribía para verse como moralmente superior al resto de miembros lo cual me molestó.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

Minor: Murder

quirkko24's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abandonment and Grief

daydreaming_fae's review

dark sad tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

honeylemon's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

An intersting memoir from someone so close to the 'Manson Family'. Well written and detailed while maintaining the personal touch of a memoir. While I really like the genre of true crime, Manson and his followers were never anything I found very interesting. This book gave me more details and insight into the beginnings of 'the family', which has piqued my intesert more.  

As is probably obvious, be warned this book touches on some very dark subjects and relates the life of a young girl that had many, for lack of a better term, obstacles to growing up.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Rape