Reviews tagging 'Torture'

README.txt by Chelsea Manning

18 reviews

aaronjdilkes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Suicide attempt

rachbake's review against another edition

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Outing, Dysphoria, and War

nibs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

I read this as the March book for a queer lit bookclub. 
This book made me think. I knew the US military was cooked, but seeing the insideous and complicated ways this played out in Chelsea's life was something else. I really respected her writing - she was honest about her flaws and actions, including negative things. She's a real human and she'd explain the emotions behind these actions - not to gain sympathy but as a fact-based explanation on what lead to those actions. 
She got to tell her own story, something she mentions throughout the book as being important to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Outing, Dysphoria, and War

tymout's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Islamophobia

cimmalex's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

2.25

I’m not sure what was going on with the narration, but you could tell where a passage started and stopped. Whoever did the editing did a really poor job. It kind of ruined the listening experience

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and War

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Police brutality, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical content, and Gaslighting

inamerata's review against another edition

challenging dark informative

3.5

A difficult but important book. It's good to learn more about things in her own words, and it's impressive how much she was able to disclose even with censors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, Torture, and War

Minor: Child abuse

noahg's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

It was good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and War

Moderate: Suicide attempt