Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Deborah Herman

4 reviews

libraryofjuls's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

emily511's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

3.5

This book has killed my desire to know more about cults. It was an upsetting read, but I think I'm glad to have read it. I almost put this book down and completely stopped reading it in the first quarter. When describing her early life, Dianne describes her early childhood sexual assault with a positive spin that was viscerally upsetting to read. As I got further into the book, I realized that description fits the severity of the incident when compared to Dianne's experiences in her teens. The writing feels a bit academic in the beginning, but once I got into the book, I found that the narration described Manson and the family's descent into extremist madness that was thorough, yet easily consumable. Manson's carefully created magnetism and Dianne's curious, rose-colored memories of the events of her early time with the Manson family explain just how impressionable young people were twisted so deeply.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Minor: Forced institutionalization

librosylagrimas's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

Un libro bastante pesado e incomodo de leer por los temas que trata. Me gustó en su mayoría porque siempre he estado interesada en la Familia de Charles Manson pero la autora se contradecía bastante y a momentos escribía para verse como moralmente superior al resto de miembros lo cual me molestó.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Murder