Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Mi amigo Dahmer by Derf Backderf

33 reviews

mohrsecode's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, and Sexual content

louislover's review against another edition

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

evelynleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Violence and Cannibalism

mountaindrew28's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Murder

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying and Murder

Minor: Racism

mynameschrissy's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Cannibalism, and Murder

msorce's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

This is an interesting story and worth the read if you are interested in hearing an account of Dahmer's high school years. I'm not that into graphic novels, but this story was short and well suited for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Bullying

Moderate: Murder

brookey8888's review against another edition

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

moto1480's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

4.0

My Friend Dahmer is an interesting real life story of Backderf's experiences growing up with Jeffrey Dahmer. It's well-written and quickly sucks you in. It would have been very easy for the author to pretend to have been closer to Dahmer than he was, but he's very clear about the high school friendship(?) that he had with him. The art is different and I'm not an huge fan of Backderf's style. It's sweaty MAD magazine-esque, if that makes sense. 

While Backderf says repeatedly that he didn't write this to engender sympathy for Dahmer, you can't help but wonder what could have been if anyone was paying attention to him before he killed for the first time. I actually think this graphic novel is Backderf's way of coming to terms with being unable to do anything for and about Dahmer. I enjoyed this immensely, though the end ran out of steam.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Murder

mjtal's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Murder

Minor: Stalking