Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

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

33 reviews

emakay's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

shannonxvx's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Racism, and Blood

Minor: Animal death, Excrement, and Antisemitism

grei's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

So, so worth anyone's time if you can read it. Even if you don't get the audiobook you can hear him telling the story in your head.

I don't know a better way to describe this book, it is absolutely an amazing read that defies categorization, other than to say it is the story of Trevor Noah growing up as the son of a black mother and white father during apartheid, when it was illegal to have such a child.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

If you want to skip the part about excrement, once Trevor starts talking about needing to go to the bathroom just skip to the end of the chapter. The last few paragraphs provide enough context and a good punchline for you to skip all the graphic detail and embarrassment of it.