Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

156 reviews

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

David Grann is one of our greatest nonfiction authors alive. Every topic he chooses is brought to life no matter how many years have passed since the events took place. His writing is smooth and unobtrusive, describing the past in a matter-of-fact, approachable way. If history books had been like this in high school, we’d all have gone on to be scholars. 

Killers of the Flower Moon is an especially difficult book to read, not because of the writing but because the subject is so painful. Grann documents how literally hundreds of Osage were murdered for riches in the early 20th C. As American Indians, their lives were worth less than that of dogs. An entire corrupt and venal society was arrayed against them. Well aware they were systematically being murdered, they had no recourse. The authorities, both political and legal, were complicit in the murders. No one would help save them from eradication. 

This is an excellent telling of a dark and shameful time in our history. If only this much attention had been paid a hundred years ago some of the Osage who were murdered might have lived. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

author2223's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gun violence

kimmykelly's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

saroreen's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

hanhantap's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Grief, and Alcohol

imfixintoread's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

Grann did a fantastic job researching this book. It was hard to keep up with all the names, so I was grateful for that section at the end of the book to reference. It was so difficult to digest all that happened and yet Grann wrote in a way that made it straightforward. Truly a gut-wrenching part of American history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Violence

jillianselene's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

tiffyd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

dan_berlin's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

nicoleisalwaysreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

absolutely fantastic journalism. well-researched, and exceptionally organized and paced. the content is so difficult and chilling, not an easy read by any account

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, and Murder