Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Les Naufragés du Wager by David Grann

110 reviews

sharkfan's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

shelbert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

This book was very good, it took me forever to read, but I also don’t typically read these types of books. It was fascinating to see into the past and how grim life really was back then. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Slavery, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

megnut's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, and Murder

kellyofcali's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense slow-paced

4.0

An interesting book on a very specific topic - like all his books, it's quite well done, though the topic didn't always appeal to me as much as some of his others. Still, it's pretty incredible (and horrifying) what these men went through, and something I'd truly never heard of before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror and Confinement

intoblossom's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

laura_nel13's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

waterlogged's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Cannibalism

Moderate: Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Trafficking and Sexual harassment

zeldazonks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Manages to be incredibly compelling and informative as well as highlight the hypocrisy, cruelty and nonsensical nature of colonialism. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was fantastic, I devoured this in two days.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

zsabella's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Slavery

sarasreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

This was pretty unputdownable. So much was happening all of the time it read much more like fiction than nonfiction, which I enjoy. It can get pretty gruesome, so know that going in. It can be harder to stomach since it's a true story. But I flew through this and will definitely read more from this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Racism, Slavery, and War