Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

30 reviews

pagingdrgwenlilli's review

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Imperialism is constant horror normalized.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War

nicmgray's review

challenging informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

Likely going to come back to this book in the future because there’s so much here

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahjx's review

informative sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Rape

hauntedvamphotel's review

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Torture

The author doesn't describe things in too much detail, but due to the nature of the history and the scale of the events most of the things even briefly mentioned feel quite heavy.

mamvula's review

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

kisstheladder's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism

elmcee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

erint251's review

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

Shines a light on a horrific chapter in world history. I do wish the book had been longer and had more room to expand its thesis as I felt the second half was a little rushed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Murder, and War

koalala1031's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

If you're Indonesian (especially if you're old enough to read academic-level books like this) PLEASE read this book. It's extremely important to read because this book shows what truly happened back in 1965-1966, and also its context within the global geopolitical space. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence