Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young

18 reviews

raine_forest_cafe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

charliemaigne's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kayla_reads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This was one of the best memoirs I've read. And the audiobook was narrated by the author, which made it even more impactful. I appreciated that it flowed chronologically, and that she has obviously had enough time to heal to accurately reflect on her journey in a somewhat neutral way. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Colonisation

ajnagle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

stevia333k's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense

4.5

I found out about the author via her tiktok account knitting cult lady 

I want it first known i read only the part about the army because I've been encountering a lot of microaggressions lately over the military & i didn't have time to listen to the first 2 parts because of that recent crisis.

This book helped clarify how a lot of these horrible laws such as the no water laws were normalized in the military before they became laws. I often call racial capitalist patriarchy a dictatorship of war rape & the history of plantations bears that out, though she didn't necessarily know USAmerican history before joining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

julschapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

princess_marie's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, and Excrement

dafyddclover's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

This book is so intensely personal and is literally what happened to her, so it's difficult to rate, but I think the quality of the story telling is really inconsistent throughout the book. Despite the efforts to create a through line, it felt like two different books, and ultimately glossed over a lot of what I would have been more interested in about her pist-cult life in favor of relitigating disagreements, telling army stories, and praising the military industrial complex even as she calls it a cult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

oriad313's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Lesbophobia

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Islamophobia, and Medical content