Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Jens Rösener

6 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Infertility, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Colonisation

gwenswoons's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Liked this a lot - lots of beautiful storytelling, tons of deep history about South African apartheid told in really personal ways, and an unusual balance of comedy and vivid, traumatic, clear information that Trevor Noah does so well. The structure, for me, wasn’t totally successful - I think the word “Stories” in the title is key, and it’s definitely built more like vignettes - to my reading, it was often not entirely successful from the extent of the non-sequitur - than like a traditional memoir (I’m not a major memoir reader anyway, so I was ok with this! But the timeline leaps and unrelated stories sometimes felt like they could have been built into a slightly more effective arc). I listened on audio, and can’t recommend it enough - he’s obviously such a great narrator, so funny, so inflected and beautiful (and, so amazing hearing him switch between different languages in different stories - I loved!!). Can’t imagine reading this NOT on audio! I’ll def read more of his books as he writes them 💜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

noahsingh's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, and Classism

Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts

skilletsnail's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Blood, Colonisation, and Classism

sabrina_d_arcy's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Excrement, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

hesticht's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Sexism, Stalking, and Classism