Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Clube da Luta by Chuck Palahniuk

34 reviews

antidietleah's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

rchlfrkr's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

semisinful's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I expected this to be a hard read but boy oh boy did I not expect just how hard of a read it was going to be. The first time I tried reading this I gave up three chapters in because the violent descriptions and the talk of how to make homemade explosives gave me that weird phantom pain in my knees. But this time I pushed forward and got through the whole book. I love the movie, it’s one of my favourite movies. But it was far more difficult to actually be in the narrator’s head the way you are in a book versus how it is watching it in a movie. 

Man some of this was really hard to swallow. I loved it though. It was so brutal but it felt incredibly authentic. My problem with a lot of books this brutal is inauthenticity. This was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

ru_th's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

We are not special. 
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are. 
We just are, and what happens just happens. 
And God says, “No, that’s not right.” 
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything. 
God asks me what I remember.
I remember everything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

gillzzzo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This is a gritty, faced paced novel which makes a lot of commentary on the mundanities of life and how we find ourselves trapped and depressed. I love how depraved the main characters are. You can really see why it’s such a cult classic. Almost exactly the same as the movie except for the end, which I think the book does better!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Terminal illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Gore

kergo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abandonment

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Fatphobia, Gore, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Transphobia, and Murder

elwh's review against another edition

dark reflective tense

4.25

Interesting to see the differences between the book and the movie. The lengths at which the narrator and Tyler go to destroy each other is greater here. I liked the movie more, but always love having another medium to engage with a story that puts my thoughts in a full nelson. Would not recommend listening to the audiobook while drifting in and out of sleep…your subconscious might take notes. (But seriously, the repetition makes it difficult to track where you fell asleep.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

frannieman's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

chapter_one_athenaeum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail