Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Зеленый свет by Мэттью Макконахи, Matthew McConaughey

26 reviews

anna_maria_wirth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

nick13's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

5.0

 Mathew McConaughey might not star in some of my favorite movies, but he does what he wants when he wants to do it and that is why he is one of my favorite actors. Along with this, a lot of my family is from Longview, Texas and even attended Longview High School with him so I knew much of the high school bits from this book, which actually made them somehow more entertaining. Anyways, tangent about my weird correlation with McConaughey over, this book was simply amazing. I loved a lot of the advice and the way he gave it in the audiobook (you simply have to listen to the audiobook of this it's incredible) and even though I follow the advice already, the stories that came with it were so good that it didn't matter. And just because I follow a lot of the advice in this book, I don't follow all of it, and while listening to this book I could feel my own self puzzling out my own advice along with it, discovering parts of my own self that I never really thought about before. Okay, I guess I just went on another tangent huh? 

All in all, even if this book doesn't give you more philosophy on your own life or lets you discover the secrets of the universe, I guarantee the stories that are packed alongside it are really entertaining especially when getting to hear Mathew tell them in his own voice. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Death of parent

skyleetux's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Death of parent

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

nikki8d's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

kirtreads's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse

vickytickytavi's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

I really enjoyed this audiobook for the most part, but I still feel like McConaughey is unaware of his privilege? It seems like he is a bit out of touch with the real world. Otherwise, it was very good. I loved how joyful he seemed retelling stories of his past and he has a really great sense of humor. The overall message of green lights vs yellow and red lights was very impactful and has changed the way I look at “setbacks”. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

This was shorter than I had anticipated as far as audio but I had no problem listening to the slight Southern twang of Matthew McConaughey's voice. I was surprised at how well-traveled he was/is in his nearly 52 years of existence. Some of the moments of his life I found sweet and others made me shake my head, not in a bad way but just Wow, only a white guy can get away with that. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent