Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

5 reviews

maxmilkman's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Police brutality, Medical content, and Abandonment

Minor: Gore, Pedophilia, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

bigheadcam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

An absolutely incredible, fascinating, and perfectly paced narrative nonfiction on the Troubles. Radden Keefe is very careful to specify that this book is not "historical" nonfiction because a lot of the information in this book is derived from oral accounts. He did his best to reconcile these accounts by corroborating them with more official records and reports, but the Troubles are not well documented and were a truly chaotic time.

Radden Keefe's writing is objective and informative while also remaining gripping and maintaining an excellent storytelling tone. I was consistently impressed with how well he kept every subject covered interesting, and how he manages to switch contexts without losing the reader or making it jarring.

Thanks to John Oliver for recommending this on Hot Ones. I'd happily do the same for anyone with an interest in history, radical ideologies, revolution, and modern struggles for independence as well as the cost of said struggles.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sonygaystation's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Torture, and Medical content

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

imds's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, and War

chandrajohnson1208's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

Clearly, Patrick Radden Keefe has done a tremendous job here, but this was a hard, hard read. I'm definitely done with nonfiction for a good long while now. Part of the fault is on me, because I thought the book would be more about the McConvilles and less about Dolours Price, but I was wrong about that. No fault of Keefe's, of course--just a dearth of information about the mother, especially, it seems.
Well-written, well-researched, and well done considering how unsatisfying the situation currently is, and how precarious its future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder