Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Hiroshima by John Hersey

11 reviews

linda_wolf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

iamastraythought's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sareidle's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

quixie's review against another edition

dark informative sad fast-paced

4.75

This read like a horror novel, but the horror was real. My jaw was on the floor. I cried. I hated my own country during the read. Almost a 5 star read, but the ending was wrapped up kind of clumsily, I think.

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Content Warnings

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

cecropiansea's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

amanda884's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

neptunereign's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

Moderate: Vomit and Grief

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

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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