Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Mon ami Dahmer by Derf Backderf

18 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Death, Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Antisemitism

physicalsecrets's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, and Murder

mohrsecode's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Ableism

louislover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

It was a nice change to see a book about someone like this based on their life before they did what they did, it was really interesting to see from someone who actually knew him the things he noticed as he looks back on it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual violence, Blood, Alcohol, Bullying, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Sexual assault, Gore, Homophobia, Murder, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism

evelynleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Abandonment, Rape, Murder, Bullying, Violence, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Violence and Cannibalism

calamitymeat's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

3.75

Not as sensationalized and out of touch as literally any other true crime story. I appreciate that Backderf only explicitly shows or mentions the murders like 2 or 3 times. It's a lot more tasteful and respectful to the victims and their families than portraying in detail the brutal murder and torture of gay men of colour, unlike other books and shows about Dahmer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Blood

Minor: Suicide, Homophobia, Vomit, and Cannibalism

moto1480's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

4.0

My Friend Dahmer is an interesting real life story of Backderf's experiences growing up with Jeffrey Dahmer. It's well-written and quickly sucks you in. It would have been very easy for the author to pretend to have been closer to Dahmer than he was, but he's very clear about the high school friendship(?) that he had with him. The art is different and I'm not an huge fan of Backderf's style. It's sweaty MAD magazine-esque, if that makes sense. 

While Backderf says repeatedly that he didn't write this to engender sympathy for Dahmer, you can't help but wonder what could have been if anyone was paying attention to him before he killed for the first time. I actually think this graphic novel is Backderf's way of coming to terms with being unable to do anything for and about Dahmer. I enjoyed this immensely, though the end ran out of steam.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Ableism

mjtal's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Murder, Alcoholism, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Stalking

riddlemethis's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

olivinebranch's review against another edition

The casual ableism was Not It for me. Bummer because I've loved Backderf's other works

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism