Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

In questi giorni sono fuori di me. Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

15 reviews

overlap's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

This book is definitely one of its time and contains more ableism and racism than I really expected, but I think its writing shines through and the story is extremely compelling

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, Incest, and Racism

katreena's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

3.5

I really mixed feelings about this one.
The author is clearly racist and ableist and does little to hide. However a very big theme this memoir is that he is not a good person. It's a very raw retelling of his time moving to New York to perform as a drag queen. The story is heavily centered around an abusive relationship with an escort. The author does NOT sugarcoat the experiences or his own involvement with drug use, club culture, hookup culture, escort culture and the bad things be did in them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Death, Incest, and Abortion

l_kernberg's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Sexual assault

kgrace_s's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, and Racism

dananana's review against another edition

 I was gonna read this for my book club, but my work schedule ended up changing last minute so I couldn’t go and decided not to continue with this one. I was already considering dnf’ing, though (as you might have guessed, since I only got 60 pages in). The narration was stressing me out – it’s often very difficult for me to read books about people making destructive choices. Plus, there were a few off-color jokes about trans people that were probably “acceptable” in 2006 when this was published, but with everything going on right now in the news… it was just a bit much for me to deal with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Transphobia

siedood's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

aoifemarie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

marisacarpico's review against another edition

emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.0

Don’t remember what possessed me to get this audiobook, but I wish I’d listened to is years ago because it felt a bit old hat to me now. Kilmer-Purcell’s story is certainly detailed and specific, but here was perhaps a tone here that didn’t work for me. A little needy in its attempt to be outrageous. Do appreciate the frankness, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual content

chacepaulson's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

karenaerts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Homophobia, Violence, Vomit, and Suicide attempt