Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

149 reviews

whatsmacksaid's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Excrement, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism and Physical abuse

cbingen520's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, and Antisemitism

bisonprints's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Colonisation, and Classism

grays_opinion's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

amelody's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Medical content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Infertility, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Colonisation

nanjeahug's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Blood

Despite the warnings it is a good read as it is things we should know especially as a white person.

cmc027's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Physical abuse

ikilegna's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

I listened to this as an audiobook read by Trevor Noah himself and holy shit, what a life. I learned so much about life as a POC in South Africa and about Trevor Noah. I feel like the fact that Trevor read it himself added a lot to the experience, so if you have the choice, go for the audiobook!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, and Blood