Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

24 reviews

kthompson19's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.25

This is not a great memoir. It jumps around in time and theme, often fails to meaningfully explore the themes presented, and simply seems to attempt to cover far too much without any single unifying narrative. 

That said, this was still impactful for me as a gender non-conforming person. Page’s experience with dysphoria rang true to my own experiences as a kid. His descriptions are vivid and poetic, disturbing in the way they’re able to capture what not being at home in your body feels like. A resonant read, but still one that I was ready to be finished with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Drug use, and Alcohol

peckreadsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Sexual content, and Transphobia

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Excrement, Lesbophobia, and Outing

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was so good, but in that way that breaks your heart. I hate that Elliot had to deal with everything he has and didn’t always have people around him to make him feel safe. I’m so happy that he had the courage to write this book and that it has become so popular. It’s so important and empowering to hear queer and trans voices. This is just one trans person’s story, but hearing the joy and relief in his voice when he talked of being out and surgery gives me hope for others, that they feel safe enough to be themselves as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Deadnaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

dani_reis's review against another edition

informative

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

emma_b_rhodes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Rating: 5/5 stars

A memoir from Academy Award nominated actor Elliot Page about his life, including his career and his journey to coming out as trans.

I’ve been on a huge celebrity memoir kick lately, and this is one of the best I’ve read all year. Pageboy is raw and vulnerable and honest, and made me simultaneously so sorry for all Elliot has gone through and so glad he can now live his truth.

The narration of the audiobook was also fantastic, and delivered in a way that really added to the presentation of the story. Overall, if you’re interested in memoirs, I highly recommend this one.

CW: transphobia; homophobia; eating disorder; body horror/dysmorphia; sexual content; drug use; mentions of suicidal thoughts and self harm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug use and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic