Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

15 reviews

lily_kruse's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Vomit, Pregnancy, Rape, Racism, Abortion, and Blood

lubepizza's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.75

God I hate this family so much but boy howdy does this sucker know how to write.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Abortion, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Racism

Minor: War and Adult/minor relationship

hannakutlu's review against another edition

medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Infidelity, Drug use, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

jessidbee's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abortion, Classism, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

emilyhays8's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual violence, and Addiction

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

popcornreading's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

How utterly exhausting!! It felt overwritten and 100 pages too long. PLEASE see the content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Racism, Excrement, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder

unboxedjack's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Suicide

robgottfried's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion, Suicide, and Sexual violence

davidup_15's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

As usual, Jonathan Franzen shines in creating vivid, complex characters whose journeys are arresting and whose individual psychological worlds I became so absorbed in I would forget reality existed. The tense story beats are few and far between, but when they do come they are so absolutely shocking I would almost fall on the floor. As a pastor's kid myself I loved the exploration of religion, church, and their relationship to social justice too. If I were to criticise this book, I would say it's a lot less tight than Franzen's magnum opus The Corrections, and too similar to his follow-up Freedom, but I still really enjoyed this, and it firmly reinforced Franzen's status as one of my favourite authors ever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Abortion and Self harm

catherinefix's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Abortion