Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

8 reviews

gniu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Cancer, Gore, Terminal illness, and Violence

marxxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

first Palahniuk book I’ve read and I love his writing stylei. One of my favorite things about it was just how often the narrator slips into the second person for prolonged periods of time. The distance and sameness between Tyler Durden and the narrator; the distance and sameness between the narrator and you. 

Probably a lot more relatable than it should’ve been, but what can I say—I’m a working class communist insomniac who has loads of intrusive thoughts about violence and spends most of their time feeling simultaneously suicidal and terrified of death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Blood, Classism, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Self harm, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm and Murder

sandybree7's review

dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Gore, Murder, Body horror, Car accident, and Toxic relationship

cwzw's review against another edition

dark funny informative tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Drug abuse

amyayeme's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Gun violence, Violence, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

deepspacefine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

sofipitch's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I had to think out my rating for a second. Spoilers for anyone who like me was unfamiliar with the twist but this book does feature a violent character with DID. I dislike any media that demonizes DID such as Split because it does a lot of harm. Although they say Tyler is his alter-ego, they never clarify which terms to use, DID, schizophrenia, or what the narrator confirms suffering from in the beginning: insomnia. Since this is a work of satire the point of the novel isn't a murder mystery or a look how scary ppl w/ mental illness are I will give it a pass. The point of the novel is how poorly our society treats the lower class, how men who aren't taught good coping mechanisms, and how a society that doesn't try to help one another is going to lead to violence. So I liked this book because of the anti capitalist sentiment. And the idea that our culture creates men entrenched in toxic masculinity. It's basically a "we live in a society" book. So because this book is very theme/metaphor oriented as opposed to plot oriented I won't write it off for a bad portrayal of psychosis/dissociation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Abortion

albernikolauras's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This book stays with me in some ways. It's dark and twisty and not always enjoyable. I wouldn't call it exactly realistic, but the escalation felt real. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, and Body horror