Reviews tagging 'Rape'

None of This Rocks by Joe Trohman

5 reviews

kiwij96's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.75

Full of self-depricating humour, Joe Trohman recounts key moments of his life and how they have influenced his life to make him the person he is today. Humourous and reflective, this is one for the fans who want to get to know the self proclaimed "man behind the man behind the man" of Fall Out Boy.

I found it a bit repetitive in parts, or at least a bit back-and-forth-y, and though Trohman's writing style is chatty and self-deprecating, it does lead him to go off on tangents at times. And by times I mean entire paragraphs of "what relevance does this have to what you're trying to say?". That said, I did really enjoy reading this (aside from the occasional vulgarity and rape jokes).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Antisemitism, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lotsaplots's review

dark funny sad medium-paced

4.5

I loved the insight into Joe's life and way of thinking despite the heartbreaking stories he has to tell about his childhood and his place in Fall Out Boy. I thought the book was great and read it very quickly. My only complaints are that there is occasionally information repeated chapter to chapter as if this is a series of blog posts where someone is only starting to read in chapter 5 and 2 unnecessary rape jokes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, and Car accident

Moderate: Dysphoria and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death and Rape

pinkmalady's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Vomit, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Classism

artytytyty's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

JOE TROHMAN, I AM SHOWERING YOU IN SO MUCH LOVE, YOU ARE SO LOVED!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Rape

kingcrookback's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

I made a playlist of the individual songs mentioned by name in the book, if anyone's interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EfjS2lgJOWe9XsExa8wQm?si=a8d282ca2e2347c1

Joe's got a very distinct voice that's very consistent throughout the entire book--a deliberate derailing of seriousness. Readers will quickly learn the reasons why that is. But he steers us between painful and humorous within the same page, if not the same paragraph, in a way that (usually) doesn't feel unfocused. It's not a flaw, more a feature of how his sense of humor works. All in all, this is a very engaging, illuminating, and at times heartwarming (man loves his family and friends) memoir from an artist that often gets shafted as "that other, other guy from Fall Out Boy."

Be warned: lotta piss and dick talk. Like...last time I thought "God, enough about your dick!" this many times, I was reading The Sun Also Rises. Way less racist and antisemitic, though. Also, he maybe should've censored that one racist slur, though I understand that he included it to illustrate the hostility of the neighborhood he was describing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Rape