Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Spare by Prince Harry

79 reviews

sadiebugreads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Provides an insight to the inner workings of the british monarch and their family dynamics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Car accident, and Pandemic/Epidemic

All information is presented in a factual way, a “this is how it happened” way. It is not intended to shock, but to educate.

pingwoh's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective slow-paced

3.5

"he had frost bite on his dick at his brothers wedding" and other stories of oversharing by prince harry

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Antisemitism, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

liesthemoontells's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

As someone with a morbid curiosity about the royal family, I don't know why I didn't listen to Prince Harry's audiobook earlier. It is filled with information that confirms my existing belief that the British Royal Family is the most privileged institution of human rights abuse in the world.

From a purely academic perspective, this memoir is ground breaking and history making for breaking the code of silence around what really goes on behind the closed doors of the royal palaces. 

From an entertainment perspective, it has everything you could hope for in a celebrity memoir: packed with scandalous anecdotes about a world the ordinary reader will never experience, which helps to humanise a figure that we rarely see other than through the telephoto lens of a tabloid, or glossy official media coverage.

Is it extremely one-sided? Yes. Are the parts about Harry's wartime experiences in Afghanistan a little bit boring and morally icky? Yes. Is his stated support of the monarchy pretty flimsy considering that the recollections he includes in this book of his King and the Heir to the throne paints them as insecure, conniving, snivelly little overgrown rich boys? Yes. Did I struggle to put it down? Yes, I was riveted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

theopenbookslady's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Car accident, Death of parent, and Classism

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

A tragic memoir as Harry reflects on growing up in the toxic enviorment of the royal family and the invasive paparazzi that led to his mother's death and consumed his own life leaving to his split with the royals. Harry speaks with a deeply reflective voice of someone who has clearly spent years in therapy trying to unpack the toxic world he was raised in. He owns his mistakes and offers a deep empathy to his own family, even as he laments the state of disconnection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Racism, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Classism

emilycheslock's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Misogyny, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Blood, and Abandonment

rhiannonhoward's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Classism

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Classism

cleotheo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism and Pandemic/Epidemic

syza17's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Pregnancy, War, and Classism