Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Mon ami Dahmer by Derf Backderf

29 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

nicmedia123's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

3.5

Review:
This was a disturbing portrait of the notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer as a middle and high school kid in the 70s. He lived with combative parents, and his mother also suffered from mental illness. There was no intervention made by any adult at either school Dahmer attended, but it was also a different time. 
Dahmer had few friends, and he lived a very isolated life. He became an alcoholic in high school. 

The drawings evoke his robotic and wooden personality as well as his dark inner thoughts.

This is an important read, especially for adults who work with kids, so that we can recognize the signs of mental illness, depression and alcoholism so interventions can happen, but there is no guarantee that these may have helped. This might also help kids to say something when they see something.

Read this if you enjoy true crime, criminal psychology, work with teens or tweens. See content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Animal death

Moderate: Violence and Domestic abuse

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

mountaindrew28's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Addiction, and Death

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Moderate: Murder and Bullying

Minor: Racism

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

msorce's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

This is an interesting story and worth the read if you are interested in hearing an account of Dahmer's high school years. I'm not that into graphic novels, but this story was short and well suited for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Animal death, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Murder