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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
21 reviews
jouljet's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder
oenophile_bibliophile's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Murder
hesticht's review
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Murder
annamusgraves's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
omgsynecdoche's review against another edition
3.5
Evangelista’s writing remains to be sharp yet poetic at the same time. I found especially interesting the way she paralleled the (re)birth of Philippine democracy 30+ years ago and the death of literally thousands of Filipinos. A must-read if you’re Filipino, by blood, by law, or just at heart.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Death of parent
cheruphim's review against another edition
5.0
I wish nothing but the best for the writer, and hope she is doing well.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Addiction and Abandonment
Minor: Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
owmyleg's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
melted_books's review against another edition
5.0
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Patricia Evangelista, a Filipina journalist, has worked as a field correspondent for an independent news agency based in Manila, Philippines. This book is the product of her research, interviews, and anecdotes surrounding former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte's crooked campaign against the country's war on drugs and the extrajudicial killings that happened under his presidency from 2016 to 2022.
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I listened to the audiobook (narrator: Corey Wilson), and it was very well done. This is an incredibly well researched, harrowing account of Evangelista's experience as a journalist fighting to expose the horrific violence of those extrajudicial killings. With this memoir, Evangelista restores the humanity that was stolen from those who died from these acts of senseless violence. She also poses a critical reminder that language is one of the most powerful tools, if not the most powerful, that we have when it comes to shaping our humanity, our views of the world, and how we treat each other.
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Content warning for (gun) violence, brutality, bodily harm, and harm to children.
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, and Police brutality
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Rape
sumsi's review against another edition
3.5
Evangelista manages to effortlessly weave in a flurry of topics, including autobiographical details, as well as historic struggles and insights into the contemporary culture of the Philippines.
We learn about the conditions that lead to Rodrigo Duterte's rise to power, the impact of his "war against drugs" and the aftermath of a country that reels against the violence it inflicted upon itself. We are presented with the people who voted for him, the people that executed his ideas, and the victims whose lives have been extinguished or otherwise irreversibly impacted for the worse.
Trying to edit all of this trauma, personal and cultural, down into a report could not have been a harder task. As such I did find myself willfully rereading dense passages, doing extra research, and enduring the — at times — long-winded reflections and repetitions. It's a fantastic book that I highly recommend. Still I'll have to be honest in that it wasn't quite my cup of tea, and that trying to devour it mostly lead to stomach aches. It's a clunky book — as in my experience are most that have something of substance to say!
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
lisztaffe's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism
Minor: Torture