Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

14 reviews

cdace8's review

dark emotional funny informative sad slow-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

This book was Definitely not for me. However it is a book that will resonate with many. It is a book that deals witha topic that is not talked about enough and so am glad books like this exist. I was not the audience it was likely intended for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Eating disorder, Medical content, Sexual content, and Suicide

raythecatlover's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Self harm, Alcohol, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

charlotteschapter's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide

bookmark3brodi's review

reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Body horror, Confinement, Drug abuse, Addiction, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

kscheffrahn's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Mental illness

s_snape_hbp's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Addiction, Suicide, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

yeuniversse's review

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

ishouldbereading's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

Craig is an alright character, self aware and I liked some of his quotes. I find the whole Craig finds love in asylium  unnecessary, it's the same as in more YA contemporary books and it's boring and not that realistic.

But the way he describes women is ... concerning, to say at least. I had to skip a lot of parts of the book because it was just disgusting. 
I don't get the hype it got/is getting, didn't live up to my expectations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, Toxic friendship, Self harm, and Sexual assault

theo_the_newt's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Drug abuse

bill369's review

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

I expected this to be way darker and I'm glad it wasn't. It is a beautiful not so hard read story. The beginning is a little more challenging, but it is relatable. 

My favourite character is Noelle. She appears about halfway through the book and she's truly cool. She got a good but not very complicated backstory, she's sarcastic, funny and intelligent. I really like her. Since the story is mostly happening at Six North, an adult psychiatric hospital, there is obviously a strong character development. I've grown to love the characters, because of how real and well written they are. My other favourites are Ebony, Humble, Muqtada and Craig himself. 

The theme is great. I learned so much about adult psychiatric hospitals in a fun way plus I haven't read any book from this environment yet, which made this book experience even more special. This book truly shifted my point of view on psychiatric hospitals and when a book does that, then it's a good book.

My favourite few lines are on page 370. I love them because they're sweet and beautiful. They aren't deep, but things don't always have to be deep to be beautiful.
The lines are:

„ I am a guy,“ I say.
„And I hate boys.“ she says.
„But a guy's different,“ I say.
„Maybe a little,“ she says.

The ending was beautiful and hopeful. I wish I knew if things truly worked out, but perhaps sometimes I just have to let myself believe that things will work out. Nothing bad to say about the ending.

I'm content with this book. I was great, slow and smart. I didn't give it five stars, because it didn't make me cry and the story was quite simple in my opinion. Those aren't bad things, but for me, they are necessary to give the book five stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, Self harm, and Suicide attempt