Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

15 reviews

hannahbee_97's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

3.75

The audiobook using actual archival recordings was a very cool touch! For me, I just struggled a bit with keeping track of events. I was kinda horrified by the blasé attitude people involved in the historical events had toward death/violence. That’s probably a me thing though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

sas_lk's review against another edition

3.0

This was one of the best audiobook productions I've heard. The book itself, it was not bad, I think I was just not that intrigued. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and War

marissaren's review

adventurous informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

leafy_literature's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

4.0

Solid Malcolm Gladwell/Pushkin content. Glad I listened! Informative, and the right amount of emotional as well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and War

jstorms19's review

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jlpearce06's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Violence, and War

justcallmeemily's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

This felt like watching a documentary or a video essay. I definitely recommend the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Racism and Violence

jspelman14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fallenstarr's review

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This isn't my usual genre, even within non-fiction I'm not usually drawn to these types of topics. It was informative, interesting, and the writing style was easy to read (even though the subject matter wasn't always what i would call easy reading). I would probably suggest it to people I know are interested in history or the airforce, but this wasn't so life changing and earth shattering amazing that I'm going to run around suggesting it to everybody I know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

Minor: Racial slurs and Suicide

maggies's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

Written very much in Gladwell’s Revisionist History tone, this book is super readable, even if the content is at times disturbing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War