Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

47 reviews

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Violence, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Racism, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Blood, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Misogyny

sydneylmeyer7's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Colonisation, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

saskiahill's review

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Slavery, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Blood, Drug use, Rape, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

Minor: Murder

noahsingh's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Misogyny, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical trauma, Bullying, Stalking, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Addiction, Animal death, Medical content, Confinement, Classism, Rape, and Kidnapping

Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

3.0

An interesting book about growing up in South Africa before and after the end of Apartheid.. I could never imagine that Noah went through so much on his life; enough to break him, but he managed to step away, and that's remarkable. 
There was a lot of going back and forth in time that made it hard(er) to follow and gave a feeling of being a tad inconsistent. Not bad, just not great... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Medical content, and Misogyny

barbarella85's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racism, Blood, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

minanonim's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Classism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

librabby's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

bookrecsondeck's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, and Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

peachythi_books's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

5.0

The book itself is not linear in its story telling. As the quote on the book says “ It is a series of personal essays.” Trevor Noah’s life is so much more complicated and fascinating then I could have ever imagined. His ideas on race, gender, and hierarchical systems are incredible. He has such nuanced thoughts and ideas and he manages to write about his mother in such a beautiful way I actually cried. I would so I was shocked that such a hilarious person had such a difficult and traumatic childhood but that is probably the reason why he is so funny. His life has given him such a complex outlook on the world and loved reading more on his personal thoughts in this novel. It is exciting, and moving, and addresses so many cultural and social issues that he has personally come across. It is also extremely gritty, and honest. I love the fact that his comedy career and eventual rise to fame was not at all a subject of this book. Barely even a passing comment. They truly are stories of a South African Childhood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Cultural appropriation, Addiction, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Classism, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Sexism and Animal death