Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

9 reviews

littleseal's review against another edition

This was a hard fucking read. I had to put it down several times for a variety of reasons: the explicit discussion about drug abuse (I actually hyperventilated during one scene), the anger I felt towards the addiction, and life getting in the way.

I applaud anyone who can work with people with drug addiction. It's a hard thing to deal with, and why I stay pretty far away from it as a therapist. I wanted to scream when Nic was with 'Zelda'. 'Lauren' seemed like a walk in the park compared to the issues 'Zelda' brought out in Nic.

If you have a weak stomach, proceed with caution. However, I do feel that this book gave me pretty great insight into the world of addiction. Will I work with clients who abuse drugs? Probably not. But I can still appreciate the writing.

Side note, it was hilarious that James Frey book was mentioned since that was also a addiction book that turned out to be fake. I haven't seen anything about this one being fake, so going to hope it isn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sare1125's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Alcohol

taylorgraves555's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jessica_luvs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kather_doc's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Self harm

joharrismay's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Nic Sheff is an amazing writer. I enjoyed his book and his fathers very much. Obviously they were hard to read knowing that happened to real life people. I wish they didn’t make this into a movie because people forget that Nic and David are actual people and they went through so much. This book did not hold back anything. It had so many difficult parts. This story is raw, emotional, tense, but also hopeful in a way. I recommend reading both books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical trauma

thalia_gossling's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hannah_m_g's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Bought this after reading Beautiful Boy (the companion memoir) not expecting to like it as much - I actually enjoyed it more. It's more fast-paced and less repetitive in comparison, reads more like a story, and offers the full picture of what actually happened with Nic. I don't know which I would suggest reading first - Beautiful Boy offers a lot of interesting facts and research into drug addiction and of course the devastating outside perspective of the parent. I would recommend Tweak if you're purely interested in the first-person perspective of addiction. Reading Tweak afterward definitely felt like filling in all of the gaps in David's story. I enjoyed both of them, but feel more connected with Nic's story, though I suspect that is an age/circumstance thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

vijethayc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

4.75

What can I say? This was a wild, crazy ride.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship