Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Není co závidět: obyčejné životy v Severní Koreji by Barbara Demick

8 reviews

shos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Excrement, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Colonisation, and Deportation

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

My heart and mind are so heavy. For the first time I’ve struggled to sleep after reading a book. The thought of the thousands of starving children, so destitute they don’t own shoes, never mind even a singular morsel of food to eat. I’ve been interested in learning more about the aftermath of the Korean War for a while but I don’t know if I can continue pursuing the topic. One thought about all of those Korean people does make it hard to think of anything else. 

I appreciate Barbara Demick’s knowledge of the topic and her closed pool of defectors that she interviewed, but some part of this book felt like she wasn’t giving readers enough credit. Some bits were needlessly repeated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Excrement, and Cannibalism

jenniesreadingjourney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Slavery, Police brutality, Dementia, Medical trauma, Abortion, Gaslighting, and Deportation

marillenbaum's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

An incredible, though difficult, read, this look into life in North Korea as told by its defectors is a rich and fascinating portrait of a world staggeringly different from our own. I especially appreciated the afterward to the new edition, with the latest updates on the people we had come to root for. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Violence, and Police brutality

marissab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

jackiepreston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Police brutality

treeme's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

A surprisingly engaging and emotional ethnography. I think this book could be liked even by people who are not academics because it’s just the story of 6 North Koreans lives

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Police brutality, and Grief

williamg's review against another edition

challenging dark informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Slavery, Torture, Police brutality, and Grief