Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

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

3 reviews

tinaxcuevas's review against another edition

informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

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

daydreaming_fae's review against another edition

dark sad tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment