Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

I am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

5 reviews

katreena's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

3.5

I really mixed feelings about this one.
The author is clearly racist and ableist and does little to hide. However a very big theme this memoir is that he is not a good person. It's a very raw retelling of his time moving to New York to perform as a drag queen. The story is heavily centered around an abusive relationship with an escort. The author does NOT sugarcoat the experiences or his own involvement with drug use, club culture, hookup culture, escort culture and the bad things be did in them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Death, Incest, and Abortion

kgrace_s's review

challenging dark funny fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, and Racism

swagsterx0's review against another edition

made me uncomfy but if i was in a different headspace would be amazing book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood

karenaerts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Homophobia, Violence, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

hela's review

dark funny medium-paced

0.25

I don’t really like giving low ratings to memoirs because it’s someone’s life story, but this one had some real flaws I think should be noted for anyone thinking about picking it up. The story focused on the author, his addictions, his partner, and his addictions. It was quite dark and graphic despite the comedic way it was written (which felt somewhat forced and fell flat for me). The story felt really repetitive from even before the halfway point; the writing felt like an anecdote the author had used too many times. But where it really lost me was when he was preparing for a trip to Japan, and he (a caucasian author) started mocking the Japanese accent for like three pages of dialogue. If I wasn’t reading it for a bookclub, I would have stopped right there and not finished it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Alcohol