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ebleb's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death and War
siriface's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and War
talypollywaly's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Gore and War
applesodaperson's review against another edition
3.75
My one criticism of this book was that it felt too long. I think the point could have been entirely made in a third of the length. It ended up just repeating the few same talking points over and over again.
Read from the BYU library.
Graphic: Death and War
dchalamish's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War
moranguinhos's review against another edition
Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
mads_jpg's review against another edition
3.75
These are admittedly very complicated questions to answer, so Sontag's ideas have left me feeling both less and more confused. Maybe it's harder to compare the almost real-time images from Motaz's Instagram stories to the war images filtered through television companies and journalists. Maybe it's a whole different beast seeing images of death through the eyes of someone you have a parasocial relationship with.
But I did leave this book feeling like I understood the desire to document and witness these atrocities, despite all the complications that come along with it. And all the emotions that can come up for people for different reasons, how sympathy can turn to apathy when someone feels hopeless to stop the suffering.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
aframe's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death and War
cornelia333's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: War
Minor: Body horror
pseudolain's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism