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Over the Top: My Story by Jonathan Van Ness

34 reviews

emilyhiegll's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

ddgwriter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

rayreyes's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Grief

Minor: Animal death and Death

lisettemarie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Death of parent

daphnehumming's review against another edition

funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

JVN / Jack is charming and vulnerable. At times it feels so painful to watch him make mistakes, but it feels validating to hear the story of someone who didn’t always handle situations perfectly. He is very funny and the audiobook has a lot of personality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

recreated's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

3.25

Read for book club. The book was fine if one is interested in learning his story, some of which was insightful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

tieflingmom's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

_alicereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

JVN was always my favourite in Queer Eye. Their bubbly personality and their ability to make anyone feel seen and loved is incredible. I didn’t know much about their backstory before going into this book. 

The challenges and hurdles and experiences that they have faced throughout their life were sometimes hard to read. I am always amazed by the way people can come through trauma like that and be such a joyous and loving person, both to themselves and others. 

I do wish I had listened to this as an audiobook as I think I would have enjoyed it even more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual content, and Death of parent

pacifickat's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I'm not sure I could have read a memoir about someone with more different life experiences to my own, but here's to a year of reading broadly! 

The audiobook absolutely made this book work for me as a reader. There were so many jokes and moments that relied on anticipating the correct voice intonation in order to completely land, and it was fun hearing JVN's humor come through in the audio narration. Plus, I would have hopelessly butchered all the Russian pseudonyms in my head.

Lots of trigger warnings could be applied to this book (childhood trauma, sexual content, drug use, self harm, bullying, etc.), but I have rarely heard more accurate or compelling descriptions of addictive behaviors and the self-destructive-yet-all-consuming mental state behind them than here. This felt like an extremely honest and open account of the author's most formative life experiences, and I can't help but admire that. 

I also really appreciated learning a bit about AIDS/HIV stigma, treatments, and current positive prognoses when caught early and managed carefully. This kind of information is truly a public service to get out there in the open.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

mothjor's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.5

its the first memoir i've ever read, but its honestly so good! the whole book has the classic "jvn-tone" that everyone loves. i kinda regret not listening to the audiobook version of this just because the way it is written is very much him.
the content is also so engaging and beautiful, we get a whole new side of jvn that is not showed in other contents often, it's intimate and honest without leaving behind the brilliance and positivity of his personality

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, and Sexual content