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talypollywaly's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Gore 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
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
americattt's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Gore, Rape, and War
tailwhip's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail