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Down the Drain by Julia Fox

111 reviews

ginanico's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

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Memoirs are always the best as audiobooks. This book was crazy,  so heartbreakingly sad at times and so honest. Definitely a great listen! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Blood, Abortion, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

_readerfromtheblacklagoon_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Deportation

ehoffiee's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny fast-paced

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A wild story about a wild life. could be triggering with drug use and other topics however, a very interesting book. good discussion about the manipulation that money and drugs can create

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship

avonleegrace's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Vomit, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic

mistipher's review against another edition

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Opioid use was graphic towards the end of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship

she causes a partner to relapse on heroin and I’m not sure if he ends up okay but that was what made me stop

katerina119's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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After reading this book I’m shocked Julia Fox is still alive. What a rollercoaster. What makes a good autobiography is when the author is truly being honest, and in this one she is. Some may call her shameless, but she clearly feels shame, and all the other emotions, she’s just being fearless in sharing them with us the reader. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Abortion

knaappers's review against another edition

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A Note: I have decided that I shall not give star reviews to memoirs anymore. 

SHES SOOO JULIA!! Jesus christ what a fuckING woman!!! Also maybe my favorite last line of a book ever? 

“And now, everyone wears latex”

But for the love of god do not read this before checking TW. And not just mine bcs i did not get them all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

gxuosi's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

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julia's life is quite literally unfathomable. the idea that she's alive today after all of this astounds me. and for her to be reduced to nothing more than trendsetter hardly encompasses who she is as a person and creative force. it's genuinely hard to believe all of this could be true and for her to be so well adjusted now; especially unbelievable that she remembers so many of these convos and dialogues with this much clarity after that many narcotics. i have no doubt that she's filled in the gaps with approximations and paraphrasing—none of which i hold against her. her story is fraught from the start with drugs, domestic violence, sexual exploitation, entrapment, manic depressive spirals, and death. i'd advise any reader to read acomprehensive trigger warning list before going into this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Excrement, Pandemic/Epidemic

theundecidedcat's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Outing

Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic

jennabeelack's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

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I didn't know really anything about Julia fox beyond the fact that she exists before listening to this book. I picked it up entirely based on recommendations. Fox has had an eventful, traumatic life that makes me desperately hope that she is seeing a therapist to help her process everything that happened to her and to process and understand her actions and the consequences she suffered for them.

The writing fell a bit flat for me in that she gives a very as-it-happened with very little reflection about it now that she has grown. Given the recency of some of the events, however, there may not have been enough time for her to process it yet. This really prevented me from being able to enjoy this memoir fully, especially since I have read some really thoughtful and introspective memoirs in the past couple of years.

Check trigger warnings prior to reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail