Reviews tagging 'War'

README.Txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning

31 reviews

gentle_garbage_baby's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

By reading this book, you get a sense of Chelsea's struggles throughout her life, and how boxed-in she has felt by different aspects of it, whether that be from a political/military standpoint and her ideals, or how she's dealt with her identity and how people around her responded to that. She's been through a whole lot of abhorrent stuff in her life, and she articulates it amazingly in this book. An excellent read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Outing

Minor: Deadnaming and Alcohol

mittenz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

A very straightforward telling of the events around one of the most significant leaks of classified information during the Iraq war. Manning does a good job of explaining how her experiences drove her to make the decisions she made leading up to the leaks and throughout her time in military prison.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Rape, Suicide, Violence, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, and War

spike1478's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was a very interesting read about a amazing women. It was sad at times but it was written in such a way that it made you feel like you were there with her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Wow. An amazing listen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Outing, Gaslighting, and War

lduff1's review

dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and War

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

rat_girly's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Harrowing, impactful, inspiring. Gave me a lot to think about, especially considering the US funded atrocities happening in Palestine at the moment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Sexual harassment

mar's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

as someone who was only vaguely familiar with chelsea manning's story beforehand - i'm not american & was a child when it all went down - learning what she had to endure was absolutely infuriating. nothing new i know but GOD the shit the american military gets away with is fucking mind-boggling

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and War

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

intensely readable but i would have liked more. fuck the DOD for the redactions. the craziest part is that they PUT HER BACK IN JAIL for another year, not mentioned in the book. the injustice she faced/faces is so flagrant you almost forget the US has a constitution meant to protect against it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Blood

atomicsolar's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Child abuse and War

Minor: Rape and Suicide attempt

katara42's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, Violence, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria