Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

9 reviews

ceci_cc's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

Insightful and extremely relevant even still today

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

bambicat234's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I can not recommend this book enough. Everyone should read it. It's unique in being told from two perspectives: the perspective of the man himself and the perspectives of the men who got to know him well. You can personally observe his moral, religious, and political transformations throughout his life and especially at the end of it. 
Everything he says here is relevant today in some way or another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Racism, and Antisemitism

fjordpingvin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Antisemitism, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Hate crime, and Slavery

Minor: Mental illness, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

jourdanicus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I wanted to read this as a foundation text for my personal study in race and anti-racism in the US. It definitely fulfilled that for me. Much of what Malcolm X observed is still relevant today, I find. He was a very interesting and important figure in the civil rights era, and I feel that his time on Earth was cut much, much too short.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Racism

sylvestra's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Murder

michaelion's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Aside from the early 1900s slang, I would consider this a contemporary autobiography. Everything said in this book 57 years ago could have been said by someone yesterday. You don't have to look real hard to see things really have not changed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Slavery, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

lucyy's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny, Sexism, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, and Antisemitism

dandelion27's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, and Antisemitism

maryshelleys's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality