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Blown Away

Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild

4.28 AVERAGE

graceishuman's review against another edition

4.0

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brendan240's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative

pahryth's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark informative slow-paced

estonia76's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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It was harrowing, as expected, but not without stories of courage and defiance. It had been in my to-read pile for ages and I'm very glad I've read it, it's a history that deserves to be known and remembered especially because of how hard people want to forget

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

helenking13's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative slow-paced

sydenee's review against another edition

4.75

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

larobb01's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

captainhotbun's review against another edition

5.0

dark informative reflective

aestheticbookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

hdavis02's review against another edition

4.0

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For a book which concludes on the sad reality that one of humanities’ gravest atrocities has been largely forgotten in the West, it’s rather tragically apt that I bought this for a thrice reduced price of £2.50 in TK Maxx.