Reviews tagging 'Death'

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman

13 reviews

lauraloveslemons's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

I wish there had been more of his illustrations throughout, and I found it difficult to keep up with his name dropping!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical content, Cursing, and Fatphobia

Minor: Sexual content

booksalacarte's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.5

I love Alan Rickman. Listening to these personal diary entries was revealing in a way I’m not sure I was 100% comfortable with, knowing that he was gone before this was published. This is the main reason for the lower stars.

This was such an intimate and interesting look at a man know for his stoicism and British wit. I adored hearing his introspective snippets and lovingly harsh reviews of stage and screen performances of his peers. Looking at the daily life of someone so settled in his life and career without the opportunity flowery editing was fascinating.

It doesn’t replace him and what he could have continued to do in theatre and film.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

siriface's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Cancer

heatherjm's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

There was a lot of missing context. I wish the editor had added more detail of how he knew certain people. Since most of his 1990s movies are difficult to find now, I skipped to the movies I’ve actually seen. I wanted to read a biography of Alan Rickman instead. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Death

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging funny informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Grief, Death, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Minor: Fatphobia, Torture, Medical content, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Sexual content, War, Chronic illness, Classism, Toxic friendship, and Dementia

annataeko's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

It was nice meeting you, Alan, through your own words.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Cancer

fiona_gs's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

Inspiring insight into this actor and with so few words can paint a picture of someone or review of a work with a swipe of this pen. Love the audio version thankful Audible had the visual page imaging as PDF. 

the afterward read by his widow just brought me to tears and made the audio interview with Alan or the more haunting,

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness and Death

kayjaybeereads's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

2.0

I don’t believe these entries were meant to be published. The author admitted as such in the foreword which made the whole thing awkward to read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

cait's review against another edition

This was never gonna be higher than a 3-star read for me. It was more like calendar & jotted reminders - Tim Allen is obnoxious. I went to the doctor at 3:45 & was diagnosed with psoriasis. - than a deeper exploration of his feelings & experiences.

It was also making me dislike Alan Rickman - he writes a journal entry about how the US is too sensitive about 9/11 on 9/16 - so I chose to quit while I'm ahead.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Death of parent