832 reviews for:

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

4.08 AVERAGE

racismsolver's review against another edition

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3/5

Unrelated review: I wish Sontag was alive today to write a book on photography of #bookstagrammers where she tells them to shut the fuck up.

emmagru's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

tomas's review against another edition

5.0

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you gotta stan sontag.

not only was sontag's writing insightful as ever, it help me does cover some new works that I had never come across.

blrobin2's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

josieee28's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Utterly fascinating, but suffers from being longer than necessary. 

r_s_tea's review against another edition

3.0

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It's been a while since I've read something that forced me to close the cover and reflect every-so-often. I'd say Sontag's exploration of war/violence journalistic photography is a springboard for launching your own ideas and views of a variety of topics, including (but not limited to) what is art? what is the purpose of journalistic photography? at what point does photography of suffering subjects turn into exploitation? what feelings do/should viewers of violent photography have? is there a correct/better/preferred response?

I'll admit that I was in over my head in a few paragraphs, but it was refreshing to be challenged.
Maybe I'm just reading too much juv-fiction lately. :)

theresa_timber's review against another edition

3.75

informative reflective slow-paced

ak2000's review against another edition

4.0

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very hard to process

salty_thereader's review against another edition

3.75

dark informative reflective medium-paced

naynaadoni's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective sad slow-paced