Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Stasiland by Anna Funder

6 reviews

sareidle's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, and Police brutality

Moderate: Rape and Violence

lizzym126's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Torture, Grief, Gaslighting, and Deportation

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, and Murder

creativerunnings's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Classism, and Deportation

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I've read this book several times but felt like picking it up again because I was reading another book about the Stasi which I wasn't really getting on with. The Stasi are something of a special interest for me, as I wrote my uni dissertation about the file archives and I'm still just as interested now.
This is quite a strange read at times and I know it's not for everyone but I really enjoy Funder's mix of memoir and journalism. It's also interesting because it was published 20 years ago so the history and stories it discusses are even further removed from us now but are still so powerful and fascinating. I listened to the audiobook for the first time, which isn't narrated by Anna Funder herself but I still really liked it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Police brutality

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Grief

sophie42's review

challenging informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Rape, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Death of parent

heyitsgiulia's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Murder