Reviews tagging 'War'

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

12 reviews

izzirizzo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and War

linnylionheart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Pregnancy

Others: minors consuming alcohol

outofthepinksky's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Racism, Violence, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

achristinething's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

5.0

Damn this book was amazing! I highly recommend listening to the audiobook. I cried, I laughed, I learned a lot about life!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

gwenswoons's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Liked this a lot - lots of beautiful storytelling, tons of deep history about South African apartheid told in really personal ways, and an unusual balance of comedy and vivid, traumatic, clear information that Trevor Noah does so well. The structure, for me, wasn’t totally successful - I think the word “Stories” in the title is key, and it’s definitely built more like vignettes - to my reading, it was often not entirely successful from the extent of the non-sequitur - than like a traditional memoir (I’m not a major memoir reader anyway, so I was ok with this! But the timeline leaps and unrelated stories sometimes felt like they could have been built into a slightly more effective arc). I listened on audio, and can’t recommend it enough - he’s obviously such a great narrator, so funny, so inflected and beautiful (and, so amazing hearing him switch between different languages in different stories - I loved!!). Can’t imagine reading this NOT on audio! I’ll def read more of his books as he writes them 💜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

_0_'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

yoursaswell's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and War

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Colonisation

Moderate: Suicide and Religious bigotry

Minor: Slavery, Pregnancy, and War

mushureads44's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Police brutality

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Colonisation, and War

ruffian23's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and War