Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

58 reviews

amberboo61997's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Killers of the Flower Moon is an intense, yet fascinating true-crime historical narrative where David Grann tells the story of the Osage Murders from a straight-forward and almost impartial point of view. The short length of the book may surprise people given the subject matter, but a lot of this tale is tainted with false reports, hearsay, and limited information thus stunting Grann's (and even the FBI's) ability to tell the entire "truth". It also doesn't help that while writing the book Grann uncovered numerous other murders and conspiracies that added onto the insanity of a story that was already riddled with disbelief and purposefully hidden from public knowledge. 
I believe the book is a good read even if a common critique is its lack of descriptive details into certain parts or aspects of the subject matter. It's a good introduction if you want to look into American stories hidden or deleted from history by the "winners" and shows how a government organization such as the FBI began and operated on its own self-serving needs.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

aliciaurbain's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

caroline_123's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Racism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

hanyaya's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

vulco1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

This book was great.  Hadn't seen the movie yet.  Most of this book felt a lot like a slow burn prose thriller.  At times there were parts where you couldn't be sure it was non-fiction.  As you can see from my star review, I loved this.  

In some ways, better than his book, The Wager.

The audio book was great.  It has 3 narrators.  The first 2 were great. The third one was ok, but evocative.  Will Patton is an amazing reader. He was doing voices and accents and tone shifts and everything.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism and Child death

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bookwormcat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation

bookforthought's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

Minor: Child death and Genocide

kbio's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death

kdk1898's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism