Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

11 reviews

magmabadger's review

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Stalking, and Murder

hedyharper's review

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lucykated's review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

Heartbreaking and terrifying. One peer's view of the childhood and teen years of an actively unloved and consequently broken boy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Stalking, Abortion, and Abandonment

vildfarenraev's review

dark informative sad fast-paced

 In 2011, I was irrationally afraid of Jeffrey Dahmer and also entirely obsessed with true crime. A law teacher in my high school encourage my interests and I spent many hours reading as much as I could possibly get my hands on. I wasn’t aware of this graphic novel until 2017 when the film adaptation was premiering at Toronto After Dark. The story gave me mostly information I was already familiar with but there was also something more there. This memoir provides a perspective that doesn’t exist within the FBI’s  records or the Dateline interviews. It’s hard to describe but there’s a degree of sadness that Backderf grants readers to feel. A sadness that isn’t necessarily about Dahmer but about any weird kid that no one thinks to check in on. How many people could have been saved if someone had noticed “Jeff” before everyone would only know him by “Dahmer”? It’s a question that hurts. There is no excusing the crimes or forgiving the man, but things could have been so very different and that is something allowed to be mourned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

crimsonash606's review

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A good read for those interested in true crime. It gives a complex and heart breaking perspective on what kind of life precedes the horror Dahmer inflicted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Vomit, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism

kates_cupcakes's review

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, and Stalking

louislover's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

It was a nice change to see a book about someone like this based on their life before they did what they did, it was really interesting to see from someone who actually knew him the things he noticed as he looks back on it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism

brookey8888's review

dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

3.25

I don’t know something about this doesn’t sit right with me. I know the author did his research but it feels like all of this is not his information like he only hung up with him like once. That being said I did learn some things because I’ve never really watched any of the TV shows or movies about it because it’s kind of weird to me. I don’t know the other style I also really don’t like at all to be honest. I would say if you wanna learn more maybe but I don’t know it just felt weird to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

mjtal's review

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Murder

Minor: Stalking

amarj33t_5ingh's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

An insightful gaze into Dahmer's past to argue he wasn't born evil but made evil by his dysfunctional family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol