Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Hiroshima by John Hersey

12 reviews

cecropiansea's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, War, Child death, Death, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

amanda884's review

dark reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and War

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Cancer and Miscarriage

hannah_et1982's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

jodielk93's review against another edition

dark informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, War, Infertility, Medical content, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

pterodog's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Child death, War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

kwichris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Death, Child death, War, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

neptunereign's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, War, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

endlesswonder's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, War, Medical trauma, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

paigesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

While groundbreaking at the time, this book nowadays is not one I would recommend to read about Hiroshima. The stories of the 6 survivors are told in a way that was completely insipid, with no emotion attached. Only the first 12-ish hours post-attack were written about, and then suddenly their stories shifted to weeks later, not mentioning the difficulty in the days after of the bombing. I believe there are significantly better stories from survivors that showcase the true horrors and struggles. The book also read as a propaganda piece in order to clear the guilty conscious of Americans. The final chapter mentioned how Japanese people were proud to die for their emperor, and how they were more focused on the honor of the emperor speaking over the radio instead of the bomb that destroyed over 60% of their city.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Vomit, and War