Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Nothing to Envy: Love, Life and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick

5 reviews

shos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Excrement, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Colonisation, and Deportation

mildnothing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

My heart and mind are so heavy. For the first time I’ve struggled to sleep after reading a book. The thought of the thousands of starving children, so destitute they don’t own shoes, never mind even a singular morsel of food to eat. I’ve been interested in learning more about the aftermath of the Korean War for a while but I don’t know if I can continue pursuing the topic. One thought about all of those Korean people does make it hard to think of anything else. 

I appreciate Barbara Demick’s knowledge of the topic and her closed pool of defectors that she interviewed, but some part of this book felt like she wasn’t giving readers enough credit. Some bits were needlessly repeated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Excrement, and Cannibalism

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

this is another one of those books that ive read that i really dont know what to say because it really does speak for itself. i really appreciate how in depth it went into everything because North Korea really isnt a country i knew much about going into it and the atrocities that went on there, so this book is quite invaluable in the knowledge it has

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

Moderate: Excrement and Cannibalism

stevie's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Excrement, and Abortion