Reviews tagging 'Death'

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

63 reviews

nitar8's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Violence, Murder, Police brutality, Torture, Death, Kidnapping, Confinement, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

a_v_h's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Murder, and Death of parent

sonygaystation's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Body horror, Blood, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Alcoholism, Medical content, Torture, and Addiction

Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Excrement, Dementia, and Drug use

_cararichardson's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad slow-paced

4.75

This book was extremely well done and thoughtfully researched. I got a lot of quotes from this one. It’s a fairly dense (not in a bad way) and was a fairly slow read for me, although that’s usually the case with non fiction. It’s a very complicated issue and I liked how Radden Keefe slowly unraveled the story  and it’s players. I didn’t know anything about the Troubles before going into this. I will say it took me a while to get a firm grasp on who supported what and what the different political groups stood for. At first I didn’t know how me or the author felt about the conflict, but as the narrative built I got a better understanding of the factors at play (what any great nonfiction book hopes to do!). Keefe managed to tow the line between sympathetic and scrutinizing. Overall, while this wasn’t an ~enjoyable~ read in the tropical sense, it was very heavy subject matter, I came away from this book with a lot to think about. Where should our ideals end, and how far should we be willing to go for our ideals?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Death, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Rape

theunfinishedbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death, Police brutality, Gun violence, Murder, Alcoholism, War, and Hate crime

Moderate: Suicide

atalea's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Murder, Gaslighting, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, War, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, Death, and Torture

popsicleplease's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Going into this my knowledge of the troubles was limited to Derry Girls and that small plot point in Criminal Minds, so to start I was a little confused (and I’m still not 100% confident) but overall was explained in an interesting and clear way. 

The audiobook gets a bonus 0.5 star (not included) because it is narrated by an Irish man and every time he said “poor” it added a week to my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Racism, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Self harm, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, Death of parent, Hate crime, Suicide, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Blood, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, and Murder

meredith_peruzzi's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, War, Violence, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gaslighting and Alcoholism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Terminal illness

chelseylb1988's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Death of parent