Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Cisnes Selvagens by Jung Chang

10 reviews

carmentxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

on my cover Mary Wesley writes that ‘it is impossible to exaggerate the important of this book’. in my ignorance i said to my friend, how important can it be? yeah, pretty fucking important. one of the only truthful, harrowing, beyond emotional memoirs to come out of the apocalyptic, cultish nightmare that was 20th century china. how can you give this book anything other than 5 stars? this book took me through every inch of human emotion and poured every detail of the horror- and small amounts of relentless hope- that maoist china enforced. mao was a psychopathic sadist who thrived on horror, destruction, and genocide of his own people. we can never forget. we will not forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, War, and Classism

dch7's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Classism

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, and Abortion

a789's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

schnarlie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A deeply fascinating book that helped me understand the history and politics of China while at the same time making me feel deeply with the described people. Highly recommend this to anyone Chinese or interested in China, but also might be interesting to those who aren't either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Classism

francestea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Fascinating and amazing true story about a very recent time in Chinese history. If you’re intimidated by the size of this tome the audiobook is also quite good. A few parts lagged a bit but it still warrants a 5 star rating. If you’re looking for fiction on similar topics I recommend Madeleine Tien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing and Amy Tan’s Kitchen Gods Wife and Joy Luck Club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

Starvation, famine, forced labour

temsu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

aristhecool's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion