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My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

17 reviews

directorpurry's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Death, Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Antisemitism

physicalsecrets's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, and Murder

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

Minor: Ableism

nicmedia123's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

3.5

Review:
This was a disturbing portrait of the notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer as a middle and high school kid in the 70s. He lived with combative parents, and his mother also suffered from mental illness. There was no intervention made by any adult at either school Dahmer attended, but it was also a different time. 
Dahmer had few friends, and he lived a very isolated life. He became an alcoholic in high school. 

The drawings evoke his robotic and wooden personality as well as his dark inner thoughts.

This is an important read, especially for adults who work with kids, so that we can recognize the signs of mental illness, depression and alcoholism so interventions can happen, but there is no guarantee that these may have helped. This might also help kids to say something when they see something.

Read this if you enjoy true crime, criminal psychology, work with teens or tweens. See content warnings.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Violence and Domestic abuse

evelynleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Violence and Cannibalism

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Murder and Bullying

Minor: Racism

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: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Animal death, and Alcoholism

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

amarj33t_5ingh's review against another edition

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

lilybearillini3's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.5

I appreciate the way Backderf tells this story and how his visuals help express the heavy emotions.  If you read the ebook, there are some deleted scenes and sketches that I found interesting.  I was also engrossed in the notes and notes on the Dahmer family in the back of the book.  I am interested in the 2017 movie adaptation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, and Alcohol