Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Одинокий город. Упражнения в искусстве одиночества by Шаши Мартынова, Shashi Martynova, Olivia Laing, Olivia Laing

7 reviews

marmelb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

effievee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Alcohol, and Classism

grtwrrn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Religious bigotry

aidrielle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

olivia laing really dragged out some of my deepest, most shameful thoughts and displayed them all out here in her book, huh? reading this was unexpectedly comforting at times because, idk, misery loves company i guess. there's really something about having someone put your thoughts and emotions into such eloquent words. at the same time though, i'd caution everyone to really evaluate your current state of mind first before you dive into this book. it's extremely visceral, and there were times when i had to stop reading because it was just too much. reading this book about loneliness during one of the loneliest periods of human existence in the past few years isn't something to be taken lightly. this book was incredible but, idk, just really think about whether you can handle it or not before you start reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Grief

tasho's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. I thought the premise of connecting loneliness to depictions in art would be pretentious and wishy-washy, but it’s actually deeply insightful. Olivia discusses connections to feelings of loneliness and social isolation to class, identity, mental illness, upbringing, into ways that I found fascinating but also quite sad. It gave me great perspective into the art scene as well as lived experiences of the lower class and what barriers are enforced between us by the structures of classism, capitalism and gentrification. Strongly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual violence

Minor: Death

julied's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Addiction