Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

2 reviews

c2llanes's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

this is definitely a jon krakauer book. if you don’t like his whole deal, you probably won’t like this one either. but i like football and i like history and i do like krakauer’s whole deal, so it hit for me. i think other reviews have criticized krakauer’s details on pat’s life as being redundant to the story, but i think they paint a compelling picture of who he was and certainly made me wish i could’ve gotten to know him. years later, the details of how the military lied to and treated the tillman family and so many others are still sickening, and it’s worth it to get that picture. it’s also very striking to read this book decades later knowing how pat tillman’s name and image are being used in ways he’d probably have hated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and War

Moderate: Islamophobia

hesticht's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Gore and Injury/Injury detail