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brandiereadsbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Moderate: War, Slavery, Murder, Gun violence, Rape, Colonisation, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail
acunkle's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Graphic: War, Torture, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Murder
owlgal369's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
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sad
medium-paced
5.0
I greatly enjoyed this book. The author presented the dark story of an empire's end in a nuanced and sensitive fashion, but was not afraid to give the reader the full details of the horrors both sides suffered during the long war between white settlers and the Comanche nation.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Kidnapping
siiriainen's review against another edition
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1.0
A history of the genocide of America's indigenous people in the West in which the author continuously uses racist and antiquated terms to describe the indigenous groups he's writing about, the most obvious being his chosen term of "indian", but also describing the women as "squaws", calling them prehistoric and savage and so on.
I'm not against him describing the violence that the Comanche perpetrated in the West against other indigenous groups and white settlers, that is well documented. But to use colonizing and racist language when describing it is pretty gross. Shocked this was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.
I'm not against him describing the violence that the Comanche perpetrated in the West against other indigenous groups and white settlers, that is well documented. But to use colonizing and racist language when describing it is pretty gross. Shocked this was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.
Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Rape
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